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VENUE: SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE, BOROUGH >>> Ten years on from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a nationwide tour, Alistair McDowall’s Captain Amazing is back, and the one-man show will run at Southwark Playhouse, Borough...

VENUE: THE HOPE THEATRE >>> Who do you picture when you think of The Mask of Zorro? Chances are, it might be Antonio Banderas, or even Puss in Boots. What about Robin Hood - perhaps Kevin Costner? Well, these characters were...

VENUE: CAMDEN PEOPLES THEATRE>>> Writer and actor Rachel Stockdale describes herself as a “fat, benefit class Actor and Theatre-maker from Middlesbrough”. Very humble, agreed, and her trademark for this show, but these are...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> A runner stops to listen to a newscast on his headphones, announcing civil unrest in a dystopian London. News spreads, and soon everyone is talking about it. The runner enters…

VENUE: PIANO SMITHFIELD >>> Dino Baptiste, one of the UK’s leading boogie woogie piano-playing vocalists, considers Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles to be his biggest influences