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Under a giant golden coin, there are four women on stage. Two in yellow, dressed like the Queen, two in blue, dressed like the PM.
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Theatre review: Handbagged, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

Moira Buffini’s insightful comedy peeks inside those confidential weekly audiences between the Queen and the PM. 

Dancers on stage throwing buckets of water at each other in 'Vollmond'.
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Dance review: Vollmond, Sadler’s Wells

Fasten your seatbelts for a stormy night with Pina Bausch. 

A young woman and man are sitting on a motorbike on stage. There is a large circular flash that's moon-like behind them.
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Musical review: Bat out of Hell, The Alexandra, Birmingham

Chaos, camp and confetti... 'Bat Out of Hell' is as loud as it is unhinged.

The cast of 'The Years': four women wearing glasses and dressed in black and white.
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Theatre review: The Years, Harold Pinter Theatre

A brave and intelligent play brought to life by an astonishingly good ensemble.

Against a stark white wall, four actors from 'The Marriage of Figaro': Cody Quattlebaum, Hanna Hipp, Hubert Francis and Mary Bevan are huddled up close together.
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Opera review: The Marriage of Figaro, London Coliseum

The English National Opera sets Mozart’s classic opera buffa in a stark white box.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. A man and a woman sit together looking offstage and smiling
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ambassadors Theatre

F Scott Fitzgerald’s fantastic fable is indeed ‘an unordinary musical’.

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Music review: Mitsuko Uchida & Mahler Chamber Orchestra: Mozart, Royal Festival Hall

Mozart shines under the gentle touch of Dame Mitsuko Uchida.

Ballerinas in white tutus, with white veils over their heads, with a single dancer in the middle.
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Ballet review: Mary Skeaping’s Giselle, English National Ballet, London Coliseum

A delightfully traditional retelling of this beloved ballet tale.

French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa sung with beautiful pitch and gentle emotionality in her appearance as soloist with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The photograph shows a slender, pale-skinned woman with shoulder length black hair and wearing a black dress that reveals her left shoulder. She stands to sing, surrounded by seated members of the orchestra.
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Music review: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Barbican Centre

A flamboyant and boisterous performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 3.

A smiling Caucasian man in a grey jacket, white shirt and glasses plays the drums in front of an orchestra and looks of to the left of the frame. LSO
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Music review: Christmas Swing, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican

A festive celebration of ‘third stream’ music where jazz and classical came together.

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