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The best dance and ballet shows in April 2026
Dance

The best dance and ballet shows in April 2026

This month on stage, London’s dance world is serving up red-hot scandal, Olivier award-winning hip-hop and reprised modern dance bangers
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The Price
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The Price

3 out of 5 stars
This 1968 play by the great dramatist of the fractured American Dream isn’t one of Arthur Miller’s best. But The Price is compelling in its...
Please Please Me
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Please Please Me

3 out of 5 stars
Who would the Fab Four be without their fifth member? Would Beatlemania have existed at all? Would their US success have even been possible? And those albums...
I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven
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I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven

4 out of 5 stars
If you know Christopher Brett Bailey you will surely know him for 2014’s This Is How We Die, a hallucinatory, hilarious beat poetry-style road trip...

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Wicked

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The best London theatres

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Old Vic

One of London's most storied theatres, the Old Vic – which opened its doors in 1818 – was the first home of the National Theatre, under the...
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Young Vic

The Young Vic more than lives up to its name, with its slick modern exterior, buzzing bar, and a forward-looking line-up that makes it feel metaphorically as...
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Royal Court Theatre

London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
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Lyric Hammersmith

A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...
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