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Felicity Kendal as Sheila. Picture: Nobby Clark

Theatre review: Relatively Speaking at Wyndham’s Theatre

This new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking may only be a couple of hours long, but it crams in the comedy.

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Tom Hiddleston is to play Coriolanus. File picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Tom Hiddleston to take lead role in Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus

Avengers Assemble actor Thom Hiddleston and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss are to star in a West End production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

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Imogen Daines as Edwina Moountbatten and Sheldon Green as Hutch in Hutch at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. Picture: John Watts

Theatre review: Hutch at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith

The story of Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson promises on paper to be a humdinger.

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Helicopter opera wins top gong at Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards

A lengthy and “bold” opera including four helicopters and flying musicians claimed a leading theatrical award this evening.

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(From left) Jonathan Coy as Philip, 
Felicity Kendal as Shelia, Max Bennett as Greg and 
Kara Tointon as Ginny. Picture: ©Nobby Clark

Felicity Kendall and Kara Tointon in Relatively Speaking in the West End

One of Britain’s best-loved actresses will join a former EastEnders star on the West End stage this month in a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking.

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Terry Gilliam will direct Berliozs 19th Century opera Benvenuto Cellini. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Former Monty Python member to direct ‘challenging’ opera at London Coliseum

Monty Python man Terry Gilliam is to return to London’s opera scene to direct a rarely performed work.

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L to R Tilman Strauss as Jean, Jule Bowe as Kristin. Pic by Stephen Cummiskey.

Review: Fräulein Julie at The Barbican

The thought of staging something as mind-cripplingly complex as Katie Mitchell’s version of Miss Julie is quite terrifying. In fact, in a post-show discussion last night at The Barbican, Mitchell said: “It’s a really scary art form. It makes me feel quite sick making and watching it.”

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Michael Buble - To Be Loved

Album review: Michael Bublé – To Be Loved

The second-biggest-selling artist last year returns with a deflating clutch of covers, buffed-up but bereft of soul.

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Helen Mirren is shown around the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013. Picture: Keith Larby/iwitness

Picture gallery: Chelsea Flower Show 2013

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens to the public today, but celebrities and VIPs, including the Queen, have already had a look at the floral displays.

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