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<p>Christmas confections abound on the West End and beyond</p>

Christmas 2025

Festive shows you can still book in time for Christmas

Between naughty pantomimes, yuletide classics, and big-budget musicals, there’s still plenty of shows you can book to see this festive season. Alice Saville picks the best of the bunch

<p>Stoppard in New York City in 2004</p>

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David Harewood reprises the titular role in a starry production that grants more power to the play’s women, but ultimately dulls its edge

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The Line of Beauty is a wild ride through Thatcher-era high society

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<p>Not quite soaring new heights: Hannah Saxby and Daniel Krikler as Wendy and Peter Pan</p>

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The Barbican’s Wendy & Peter Pan rewrite is bleak and beautiful

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Interview

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Interviews

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Interview

Emmanuel Sonubi on nearly dying on stage: ‘I felt something was wrong’

Interview

Alistair Petrie: ‘Connor Swindells is like my son. We speak every day’

<p>James McArdle: ‘I remember not being able to sleep towards the end of Macbeth’</p>

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<p>Andy Nyman: ‘The taboo of The Producers is, I think, more essential, more shocking – and funnier – than it’s felt for years’</p>

Interview

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Latest features and reviews

Festive shows you can still book in time for Christmas

Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

Paddington the Musical transports this furry legend to the stage

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is lean, pacy and skips cliché

Bryan Cranston is magnetic in this masterful staging of All My Sons

Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker is a classic Christmas confection

Clive Owen is on rumpled good form in the emotive End

Royal Ballet’s Perspectives combines fun, confusion and Sufjan Stevens

Alan Cumming: ‘After my rant about trans rights, I was worried I would be deported’

Ambika Mod’s bold addiction drama Porn Play resists simple answers

Fiery and intense, After Sunday is a pressure cooker of a debut play

The Hunger Games: On Stage doesn’t quite catch fire, but sparks fly

Toby Jones plays Iago as a peevish middle manager in updated Othello

Figures in Extinction captures a disconnected world in climate crisis

The Line of Beauty is a wild ride through Thatcher-era high society

Thikra: Night of Remembering is a fitting farewell from Akram Khan

The Barbican’s Wendy & Peter Pan rewrite is bleak and beautiful

Romy & Michele: The Musical is a fine high-energy nostalgia trip

David Harewood on Othello: ‘I had to go off and have a little sob’

Interviews

Emmanuel Sonubi on nearly dying on stage: ‘I felt something was wrong’

Alistair Petrie: ‘Connor Swindells is like my son. We speak every day’

James McArdle: ‘Listen, there’s ego in theatre too’

Andy Nyman: ‘The Producers doesn’t care about getting cancelled’

Surreal and silly, Julio Torres pulls off the impossible in Hollywood

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