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Review: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 – 1915
Keith Pattison

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Panto 2013

News, reviews, interviews and features from this year's panto season.

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We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 – 1915

Bush Theatre

Wonderful Tennessee

Sheffield Theatres in collaboration with English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kinston at Sheffield Lyceum

She's on Toast

Cloud Nine at The Low Lights, North Shields

Good People

Hampstead Theatre

Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries' Farewell Tour

Opera House, Manchester

Hero

Theatre Libre at Leicester Square Theatre

Kinderstransport

Hall and Childs Ltd in association with Paul Tyrer and Jamie Clark for the Booking Office Ltd and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford

Let It Be

Jamie Hendry Productions, Annerin Productions, BB Promotion, Magicspace Entertainment, Rubin Fogel and Julian Stoneman Associates at Palace Theatre, Manchester

How To Be Immortal

Penny Dreadful Theatre at Brewery Arts Centre

I Do

Dante or Die (presented by Almeida Theatre) at London Hilton Docklands Riverside

Border Tales

Protein Dance at The Place London

Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

Talawa Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre at Watford Palace Theatre

A Hard Rain

Above the Stag Theatre Company at Above the Stag Theatre

Tap Factory

Grand Theatre, Blackpool

Variation on a Theme

HPZ Productions at Finborough Theatre

Ghost Stories

Fiery Angel and Limelight Productions at Arts Theatre

Twelfth Night

Octagon Theatre Bolton at Octagon Theatre, Bolton

Philip's Top 5

Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.

Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
King Lear (Olivier Theatre (National Theatre))
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The Weir (Wyndham's Theatre)

The Alternative Top 5

The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse)
Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic Maria Studio)
Variation on a Theme (Finborough Theatre)
Versailles (Donmar Warehouse)

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Catch-22 at Northern Stage and on Tour

Newcastle's Northern Stage announces details of Catch-22, its spring production and tour.

UK Mummy tour postponed but Coventry date goes on

Producers of a new stage comedy The Mummy are deferring a planned UK tour but will still open as planned at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre.

London transfer for two RSC Mantel adaptations

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are to transfer to the Aldwych Theatre in London.

Northern Ballet inaugural visit to the ROH Linbury Studio

Northern Ballet, a company of 40 dancers, will make its first visit to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre with a Mixed Programme of ballets by Hans van Manen, Lar Lubovitch and Kenneth Tindall.