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Helicopter opera wins top gong at Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards
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Felicity Kendall and Kara Tointon in Relatively Speaking in the West End
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Monty Python man Terry Gilliam is to return to London’s opera scene to direct a rarely performed work.
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The second-biggest-selling artist last year returns with a deflating clutch of covers, buffed-up but bereft of soul.
West End giant Patrick Garland dies aged 78
Patrick Garland, one of British theatre’s most distinguished directors, and the only one ever to have four West End plays running at the same time, has died aged 78.
Theatre review: Beautiful Thing at The Arts Theatre
There are not many plays that start out on the fringe, spawn a hit movie and are still performed internationally 20 years later.
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