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“I’m definitely having some conversations with people about it. It’s very exciting”: Lily Allen’s West End Girl album could end up… in the West End

Singer reveals plans on Jimmy Fallon’s show

MusicRadar

Paddington The Musical: why the little bear from Peru is a hero in a very classical sense

This year, fans of the tiny marmalade-loving bear from Peru can catch him on stage at London’s Savoy Theatre in the West End, in Paddington The Musical.

The Conversation

Spies, lies and men in ties: Agnes O'Casey reports from le Carré world

Ridley Road and Black Doves star Agnes O’Casey on hitting the West End (and almost some audience members) in the sensational adaptation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Evening Standard

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Soho toilet called 'top cottaging spot in the UK' could become café

The Broadwick Street site opposite The Ivy was shut in 2021 due to repeated reports of sexual activity

Evening Standard

Oxford Street could be transformed into 'nightlife destination,' Westminster says

New zones could be created in and around the West End in a boost to London’s nightlife

Evening Standard

Met Police snares 140 criminals in week-long blitz on West End phone thieves and shoplifters

Over 100 additional officers were deployed to tackle offences including shoplifting and phone theft as part of Operation Baselife

Evening Standard

Chancellor, please ditch this 'super tax' to make it a happy Christmas in the West End

Our festive forecast lays bare an economic reality that cannot be ignored

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West End stores fear weakest Christmas sales growth since the pandemic

Sales in November and December are only expected to increase by 1.3%

Evening Standard

Broadway's biggest theatre group takes 50% stake in huge new Olympia playhouse

Shubert Organization previously ran the West End’s Waldorf Theatre from 1905 to 1909

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Rachel Zegler to perform at London Palladium in first solo West End concert

The US actress is starring in Evita at the West End venue.

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Three rushed to hospital after bus crashes with rickshaw in central London

An N19 bus to Clapham Junction collided with a rickshaw in the West End at around 1am

Evening Standard

Mapped: London’s knife crime hotspots revealed

The West End is the capital’s knife crime hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 knife attacks in London, report says

The Independent UK

Cameron Mackintosh in tribute to ‘wry, generous and utterly original’ Tom Lehrer

The West End impresario said US song satirist Lehrer, who has died aged 97, ‘was a very special kind of genius’.

Evening Standard

Rachel Zegler sparks concern among fans after sudden exit from Evita mid-show

The 24-year-old actress, currently starring as Eva Perón, took to the West End stage as usual for the first act

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Extra police officers to be introduced to the West End to help tackle phone theft

The West End is one of the worst areas of the country for phone theft

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Traffic to be banned from part of Regent Street as mayor faces calls to reduce traffic across West End

Sir Sadiq Khan urged by cycle campaigners to build on Oxford Street pedestrianisation with wider vehicle ban across central London

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London taxi driver threatened with blackmail on camera for 'using phone while driving in slow moving traffic'

A cyclist filming the driver in the West End offered to delete the clip and not report him to police in exchange for cash

The Guardian - UK

Alan Strachan obituary

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

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Get up close to Cecil Beaton's family archive at intimate exhibition on the Hawarden Estate

For most of the 20th century, if you were anybody at all – Hollywood royalty, actual royalty, It girls and society ladies, even, at the end of his life, punks – you were sure to have been photographed by Cecil Beaton.

The Independent UK

‘Pathetic’ Nigel Farage is ‘Margaret Thatcher tribute act’, Scottish Labour leader says amid row over Reform ad

The Scottish Labour leader said the Reform UK leader ‘thinks Hamilton is some kind of show on the West End of London’

Evening Standard

Sarwar labels Farage ‘a pathetic little man’ amid row over Reform ad

The Scottish Labour leader said the Reform UK leader ‘thinks Hamilton is some kind of show on the West End of London’.

The Guardian - UK

New report says ‘government must act’ to ease pressures on British theatres

Attendances are up and average ticket prices down, even in the West End, but the sector faces mounting and unsustainable strain

The Independent UK

How Paddington became totally unbearable

COMMENT: As a musical based on the marmalade-loving bear prepares to hit the West End, Adam White charts the gradual transformation of Michael Bond’s creation from an adorable klutz to a cripplingly ubiquitous, pseudo-political nightmare

Evening Standard

Hidden London: the Jermyn Street Theatre, where tickets are the cheapest in the West End

Here is somewhere offering mischief and magic, says Martin Robinson — and shows that everyone can afford

Evening Standard

Battle for the West End after London mayor Sadiq Khan gets powers to approve late-night drinking and al fresco dining

Council says it only refuses licences if there are concerns over crime or anti-social behaviour

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