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An exciting roster of debuts and old favourites took to the stage on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 2019 for a weekend of free entertainment in the heart of London's West End.

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performance from Fiddler on the Roof!

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performance from 9 to 5!

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performance from Only Fools and Horses The Musical!

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performance from Come From Away below!

An exciting roster of debuts and old favourites took to the stage on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 2019 for a weekend of free entertainment in the heart of London's West End.

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performance from Everybody's Talking About Jamie below!

Day one of West End Live is underway! Check out the performances from Aladdin, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and Mamma Mia!

The latest drunken venture coming from Magnificent Bastard Productions's ludicrously perverse minds is the story of everybody's favourite sad guy: Hamlet.

The Mother is a powerful, narrative dance production choreographed and directed by master storyteller Arthur Pita which has its London premiere at the Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall in June.

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, runs from 21 June - 6 July in locations across Royal Greenwich, East London and, for the first time, the City of London.

Bill Kenwright presents Rufus Norris' multi award-winning production of Kander and Ebb's landmark musical Cabaret, which embarks on an extensive 2019 UK tour, opening at Bromley's Churchill Theatre from 28 August 2019.

Singer Michael Solomon Williams talks about the evolution of the annual not-for-profit concert, 'Common and Kind', which is held in the Union Chapel in Islington, London.

Get a first look at the newest visitors to the diner! Waitress welcomes new cast members Ashley Roberts, Lucie Jones and Blake Harrison to the London company.

Somewhere in the Russian countryside, three sisters - Olga, Masha, and Irina - are waiting for their youth to end.

Arthur Pita adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother for Natalia Osipova and Jonathan Goddard in a contemporary dance work that is unblinkingly clear and ferocious in its storytelling.

The critically-acclaimed hit Girl from the North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, is to play at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End for a limited season from 10 December 2019 to 1 February 2020.

BOOK SHAMBLES, Live from the Royal Albert Hall, is hosted by Robin Ince and Josie Long.

There are now just 4 weeks left to see Rosmersholm at the Duke of York's Theatre.

The world premiere of Anthony McCarten's (The Theory of Everything, Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour) play The Pope at Royal and Derngate looks at a turning point moment in the Catholic Church - the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI and his replacement with Pope Francis.

Screen and stage actress Michele Austin is currently tackling The Hunt at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.

At an event today at Shoreditch Town Hall, Papatango announced that Samuel Bailey has won the 11th annual Papatango New Writing Prize for his debut full-length play, Shook, from a record 1,406 entries.

Adam Kay's national tour has not been without incident.

Now in wind-down mode for the summer, programmers at the Royal Opera House are treating audiences to a host of performances from young dancers, overseas companies and, of course, later on in July, a short residency from the Bolshoi.

Following a critically acclaimed West End Season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket last year, with celebrated productions of Uncle Vanya and Life & Fate, the Maly Drama Theatre of St.