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Eileen Atkins (Joseph Marzullo/Retna) Full casting has been announced for the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company's production of Edward Bond's The Sea, January 1

Tarell Alvin McCraney is a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to The Brothers Size.

A ride from the West End, the Told By an Idiot crowd is presenting Beauty and the Beast (November 29-January 5). The show features live music and stars Lisa Hammond in the title role. Experience all the sparkling humour and dazzling theatrical invention that have become the trademark of Christmas shows at the Lyric Hammersmith. It's first-rate festive fun for all the family!

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Marin Mazzie (© Joseph Marzullo/Retna) Marin Mazzie will join the West End company of Monty Python's Spamalot in January as the Lady of the Lake, the rol

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

Christian Slater British film and stage star Helen Baxendale, who played Emily on the hit American TV series Friends, will join star Christian Slater in ...

Siobhan Donaghy 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 ...