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Star of stage and screen, Simon Callow brings to life Shakespeare's unforgettable characters and the real man behind the legend in this triumphant one-man show. Callow joins forces with Jonathan Bate (Shakespeare biographer and editor of the RSC's Shakespeare: The Complete Works) and director Tom Cairns (Old Vic's All About My Mother, National Theatre's Aristocrats) to fill the stage in an extraordinary theatrical event. Following a hugely successful national tour, Callow's magnificent performance sets the West End alight for a strictly limited summer season.

**** 'Callow and Shakespeare: A brilliant combination' 
The Times No 1 Critic's Choice

Ben Butley is having a monumentally bad day. So bad, he's making sure everyone else has a worse one. His estranged wife has taken up with the most boring man in London. His beloved protégé has found a new benefactor. And in an unprecedented act of betrayal even the English department's resident failure has a book deal. 

Butley's trusty arsenal – mischievous irony and gleeful troublemaking – have never failed him yet. Might they finally prove to be the weapons of his own self-destruction?

Take four entertainers who are musicians, comedians, acrobats, dancers, jugglers and philosophers. Add kilts, moustaches, musical instruments, two thousand cardboard boxes, tutus, topical satire and the ability to juggle anything. 

Who are they? The Flying Karamazov Brothers.

They don't fly, they're not Russian and they're not brothers. But they are the funniest, most thought-provoking, kilt-wearing, clever idiots in town. Direct from Broadway, this multi-faceted, mischievous and marvellous show at the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End from June 9th, their first visit back to London for 17 years. For a strictly limited run you'll be entranced by the wit, comedy and virtuoso skills of these world renowned maverick masters of new-vaudeville in their new London home.

Set in Ohio in 1934, where the failing Grand Opera Company is about to be saved by the arrival of the world's greatest tenor Tito Merelli.

When he is unexpectedly incapacitated, it falls to the director's meek assistant to find a replacement, a task made more difficult by a scheming soprano, a tenor-struck ingénue, a jealous wife and the Cleveland Police department.

This multi-award winning show has a universal language of rhythm, theatre, comedy and dance. Eight performers use everything from Zippo lighters, plastic bags, bin lids and even the kitchen sink to hammer out an explosively feel good rhythm.

John Buchans the 39 Steps - memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 - continues its sensational run at the Criterion Theatre.

Literally nothing has been cut from this hilarious and spectacular version of Britains most spell-binding thriller - legendary scenes include the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the Escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever stage, the rather provocative 'bedroom' sequence and the death-defying (or nearly!) finale at the London Palladium! 

With four actors playing a minimum of one hundred and thirty-nine roles, the 39 Steps proves to be the most astonishing theatrical tour de force of this, or any other, decade.

The most terrifying live theatre experience in the world! The unanimously acclaimed, The Woman in Black, combines the power and intensity of live theatre with a cinematic quality inspired by the world of film noir. It gives audiences an evening of unremitting drama as they are transported into a terrifying and ghostly world.

Celebrating over 21 years in the West End with over 7 million people having lived to tell the tale The Woman in Black is of one of the most exciting, gripping and successful theatre events ever staged.

"The most brilliantly effective spine chiller you will ever encounter... if you haven't seen this show yet you are missing a treat" Daily Telegraph

The original writers of the classic BBC TV series, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have reunited for this anniversary production and now the Prime Minister Jim Hacker, his Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley are back in this hilarious new play.

In a world of spin, Blackberrys and 'sexed up' dossiers, the PM is staring disaster in the face. The country is on the brink of financial meltdown and the Government's only apparent salvation comes from a morally dubious deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan. Will Jim Hacker and his team of advisors be able to rescue the country from the edge?

Richard McCabe will be playing the role of Jim Hacker in the tour of Yes, Prime Minister with Simon Williams (Upstairs, Downstairs, Don't Wait Up, Holby City) as Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Yes, Prime Minister is a Chichester Festival Theatre Production.