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The Marriage of Figaro review: As ingenious as it is engrossing
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Covent Garden
Georgia review: Nervy crowd escape to hedonistic world of rave-pop
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Covent Garden
Titian - Love, Desire, Death review: Full-bodied brilliance
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Soho
Catherine Cohen review: Wisecracking wit plus all that jazz
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On Blueberry Hill review: A slow-burn story from Sebastian Barry
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Covent Garden
Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things: Portrait of a gilded generation
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Soho
Sara Barron review: All hail the new queen of mean
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West End
Blithe Spirit review: Scene-stealer Saunders summons a spirited act
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Fay Maschler on Boulevard: Signs of Soho sizzle beside virtuous menu
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Chelsea
Shoe Lady review: Parkinson is the only shining light in a meagre show
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Bankside
Andy Warhol review: Multi-faceted artist is more than pop prints
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Covent Garden
Susanna review: An intense and timely tale of villainous voyeurs
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Kensington
Cao Fei — Blueprints review: Promising material is dull
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David Sexton reviews The Connaught Grill: Unworthy of past glories
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London Bridge
Women Beware Women review: Sexploitation drama lost in cheap laughs
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Pretty Woman review: Magnetic Aimie Atkinson steals the show
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Southbank
Among The Trees review: Sprawling evocation of the majesty of trees
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Covent Garden
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Madam Butterfly review: Heavily adorned but still beautiful
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Pimlico
Aubrey Beardsley review: Impish genius displays dazzling originality
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Soho
James McNicholas review: Boxer's tale delivers belters
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Covent Garden
Fidelio review: Underwhelming tale of heroism
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Covent Garden
Nicolaes Maes review: Stepping out of Rembrandt's shadow
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Chineke! review: Haimor conducts exhilarating, game-changing ensemble
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Kimono: Kyoto To Catwalk review — From Jedi to John Galliano
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David Ellis reviews Barboun: Levantine hall of hits and misses
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Inhaler's charismatic frontman doesn’t need dad Bono to make it
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Holborn
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Message in a Bottle review: A story of human resilience
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London Bridge
A Number review: A sharp meditation on cloning and identity
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Piccadilly
Léon Spilliaert review: A haunted life realised in art
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City of London
Masculinities review: Ideals of manhood to shock and delight
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David Sexton on Big Fernand: French forgo burger filth for civil chic
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Victoria
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Be More Chill review: It's Dear Evan Hansen on helium
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City of London
LSO/Rattle review: A life-affirming bit of brisk Beethoven
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Covent Garden
Dances at a Gathering/The Cellist review: Passion and pain entwined
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Soho
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Upstart Crow review: Panto meets pentameters in unsubtle adaptation
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Covent Garden
Luisa Miller review: Neglected work brought back to passionate life
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Southbank
The Visit review: Lesley Manville is magnetic in superb drama
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Far Away review: Caryl Churchill's sinister vision of the future
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Leopoldstadt review: An early contender for play of the year
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Waterloo
Alex Edelman review: Goofy people-pleaser sharpens up his act
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Fay Maschler reviews Bar Douro City: Irresistible refusal of austerity
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Waterloo
Nora — A Doll's House review: Clever riff on Ibsen has mixed results
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Steve McQueen review: Bleakness as seen by a great British visionary
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Chelsea
all of it review: A whole life packed into a frantic 40 minutes
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Camden Town
Is Yungblud edgy or just Robbie Williams with a punk hairdo?
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Notting Hill
Maliphantworks3 review: Mesmerising work by magic choreographer
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Southbank
The Taming of the Shrew review: Sedate to the point of sedation
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Southbank
Death of England review: Rafe Spall pinwheels through grief and fury
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City of London
La Roux review: Singer goes in for the kill with new suite of 80s pop
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Islington
Albion review: Victoria Hamilton gives a landmark lead performance
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Alice’s Adventures Under Ground review: A madcap menagerie
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Poet in da Corner review: Passionate showcase for power of grime
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Fay Maschler reviews Ampéli: Gorgeous grapes, but they forgot the fun
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Waterloo
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Endgame review: Daniel Radcliffe gives best stage performance yet
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Jayde Adams review: Original take on feminism's fourth-wave
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Pimlico
British Baroque review: Magnificent emergence of a new political era
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Southbank
Siegfried review: Wagner's glory in half measures
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Covent Garden
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Kunene and the King review: Apartheid battle reduced to odd double act
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Covent Garden
ENO/Carmen review: Toxic male meets free-spirited outsider
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Soho
Madonna is tireless, imaginative and powerfully intimate in London
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Waterloo
Simon Caine review: Millennial anxiety mined for laughs
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Fitzrovia
Fay Maschler reviews Madera: All the allure of an airport restaurant
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Soho
Police Cops review: The most brilliantly stupid show
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Covent Garden
Aisha and Abhaya review: Techno fairytale loses the plot
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Marylebone
Royal Academy of Music performs in the key of Clara Schumann
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Uncle Vanya review: Toby Jones is in his comic prime
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Soho
Rosie Jones review: That Greta Thunberg gag is just the start
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Southbank
The Welkin review: A messy but gutsy and significant work
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Soho
The Sunset Limited review: An intellectually strenuous evening
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Chelsea
Scenes With Girls review: How to lol yourself out of the Narrative
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Muse review: Tom Aikens's memories make for a menu of pure genius
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Piccadilly
Picasso and Paper review: Proof of a child prodigy turned genius
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Camden Town
Vivian Suter: Tintin's Sofa review — Embracing the elements
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City of London
LSO/Rattle review: Daring conductor leaves Barbican buzzing
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Covent Garden
Beckett Triple Bill review: Bracing, bone-dry humour