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Marin Mazzie will join the West End company of Monty Python's Spamalot in January as the Lady of the Lake, the role she is currently playing on Broadway, while Hannah Waddingham, who plays that role i...

Polka Theatre is the place to be. On 6 October there's Head in the Clouds, which uses puppets and live music to provide entertaining antidotes to today's world of relentless technology and quick fixes. It's a fantastic adventure for the imagination. Head in the Clouds only has one performance date, and There's Only One Wayne Matthews! (through 27 October). Wayne wants to be the best footballer in the world, but instead he's only got a head full of football trivia.

You Can't Stop the Beat

Hit Parade

British film and stage star Helen Baxendale, who played Emily on the hit American TV series Friends, will join star Christian Slater in Michael Lesslie's world premiere stage adaptation of the cult 1...

A "remixed" version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent will return to the West End this fall, helmed by William Baker. It will begin previews on October 2 at the Duke of York's Theatre, with a...

The Open Air Theatre at Regents Park presents Fantastic Mr. Fox. After stealing one chicken too many, Fox finds himself pursued by a group of farmers who'll stop at nothing to rid themselves of the menace. But the sly Mr. Fox outwits them, and all the animals have cause for celebration.

Welcome to Reality

Searching for its next Lady of the Lake, the West End production of Monty Python's Spamalot has taken the plunge into reality television. Swedish broadcaster TV3 will host West End Story, a nine-part...

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