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110,000 people watched the play in one day. Picture: Johan Persson

The Audience breaks record - for audience figures

A West End play starring Helen Mirren as the Queen has broken a National Theatre audience record.

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Jenny Sealey is directing Graeae's new production, The Limbless Knight. Picture: Matt Cetti-Roberts

Graeae’s tale of limbless knight to ask theatre-goers at Greenwich festival what it means to be alive

Jenny Sealey, co-director of the London 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony, writes about a new production by Hackney-based disabled-led theatre company Graeae, which will be shown at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.

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Stars Kim Cattrall and Seth Numrich. Picture: Jay Brooks/PA Wire

I have come to terms with ‘older women’ roles, says Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, who will grace London’s Old Vic theatre when a new show opens this week, has said she has come to terms with taking on the roles of “older women”.

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Paul Zivkovich and Kate Jackson playing their parts in Büchner-inspired production. Picture: Perou/Punchdrunk

Old postal sorting office to host unconventional production

A unconventional theatrical production which advises audience members to wear “comfortable” footwear is to show at an old postal sorting office in central London from this summer.

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The cast of Theatre 62's production of Calendar Girls.

Calendar Girls cover up as West Wickham theatre group takes on true story

Cakes, teapots and sunflowers will cleverly cover the modesty of Theatre 62’s cast as they bare all in Calendar Girls.

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Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen will play the show's title characters. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

Jeeves and Wooster stage production to hit the West End

PG Wodehouse’s classic characters Jeeves and Wooster - famously portrayed on TV in the 90s by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - are being brought to the West End.

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Lou Warnett will perform Beethoven and Chopin at the Bromley Youth Music Trust recital and masterclass.

Young maestros to give piano recital presented by Bromley Youth Music Trust

Piano prodigies will take to the stage next month as Bromley Youth Music Trust presents a masterclass and recital.

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Joey, right, in action rehearsing for War Horse. Picture: National Theatre

War Horse puppet to tread turf at Uefa Champions League final

A giant puppet from the hit West End show War Horse will put in an appearance at Wembley this weekend ahead of the Uefa Champions League final.

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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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Wood you believe it? Rescue full of coincidences

A series of “unbelievable” coincidences saw a firefighter named Woods rescue a tree surgeon from Woodland Way in Petts Wood.

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