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Frank, Sammy & Dean - The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas. Courtesy of Clout Communications

The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas

23 Sep - 21 Nov 2009; not Sun

A decade on from their West End debut, the boys are back! The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas returns and sets up shop at London's Adelphi Theatre. Join Frank, Sammy and Dean in a 50s and 60s…

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Viacheslav Samodurov (the Prince) & Sarah Lamb (Aurora) in the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty. Courtesy of the Royal Ballet, © Bill Cooper

The Sleeping Beauty

21 Nov 2009 (various dates)

The Royal Ballet revives Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev's classic production of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, first seen at Sadler's Wells in 1946. It was magnificently restaged…

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Kwame Kwei-Armah, Bola Agbaje & Roy Williams, playrights of the Tricycle's Not Black & White season. Photo Patrick Fetherstonhaugh

Not Black and White

22 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 (various dates)

The Tricycle Theatre's ambitious programme continues with Not Black and White: three plays in repertoire written by three of Britain's most accomplished black playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame…

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Janni Goslinga, Chris Nietvelt, Hans Kesting, Frieda Pittoors & Eelco Smits in Ivo van Hove's Toneelgroep Amsterdam production of Roman Tragedies. Photo by Jan Versweyveld, courtesy of Barbican BITE

bite09: Roman Tragedies

20 - 22 Nov 2009

Back in London after 11 years, Toneelgroep Amsterdam brings general director Ivo van Hove's acclaimed distillation of Shakespeare, Roman Tragedies to the Barbican Theatre as part of bite09.…

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Aerial view of Cape Town

GFest

9 - 22 Nov 2009 (annual)

Commonly known as GFest, the gayWise LGBT Arts Festival returns to London with another exciting and challenging programme of cross-art performances, exhibitions and discussions. Expect a…

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Jane Bown: 100 portraits in association with Guardian

22 Oct - 22 Nov 2009

Photographer Jane Bown, best known for her ongoing work for The Observer, exhibits her iconic portraits at King's Place, London. Working almost exclusively in black and white, her London…

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One of Mikhail Mokrov's backdrops for Francesca Zambello's new Royal Opera production of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers. Courtesy of the Royal Opera

The Tsarina's Slippers at the Garden

23 Nov 2009 (various dates)

Bringing together both the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera, all too rarely seen together, Francesco Zambello directs the Covent Garden première of Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki (The Tsarina's…

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Viacheslav Samodurov (the Prince) & Sarah Lamb (Aurora) in the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty. Courtesy of the Royal Ballet, © Bill Cooper

The Sleeping Beauty

24 Nov 2009 (various dates)

The Royal Ballet revives Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev's classic production of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, first seen at Sadler's Wells in 1946. It was magnificently restaged…

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One of Mikhail Mokrov's backdrops for Francesca Zambello's new Royal Opera production of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers. Courtesy of the Royal Opera

The Tsarina's Slippers at the Garden

25 Nov 2009 (various dates)

Bringing together both the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera, all too rarely seen together, Francesco Zambello directs the Covent Garden première of Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki (The Tsarina's…

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Fabulous Beast's fabulous production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, choreographed by Michael Keegan-Dolan at the London Colisuem. Photo Johan Persson / ENO

Bluebeard's Castle & The Rite of Spring at ENO

25 Nov 2009 (various dates)

English National Opera's music director Edward Gardner conducts a new double bill at the London Coliseum. Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, with Michaela Martens and Clive Bayley, joins…

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Alina Cojocaru as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Peter Wright's Royal Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Photo by Bill Cooper, courtesy of Royal Ballet

The Nutcracker

26 - 27 Nov 2009 (various dates)

No Christmas would be complete without Tchaikovsky's wonderful ballet The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet revives Peter Wright's acclaimed production (after Lev Ivanov), featuring a rolling roll…

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Harun Farocki Series

13 - 27 Nov 2009

German filmmaker, artist and writer Harun Farocki is profiled in this film series at London's Tate Modern. With works dating from 1968 to the present day it is the first major retrospective of…

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One of Mikhail Mokrov's backdrops for Francesca Zambello's new Royal Opera production of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers. Courtesy of the Royal Opera

The Tsarina's Slippers at the Garden

28 Nov 2009 (various dates)

Bringing together both the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera, all too rarely seen together, Francesco Zambello directs the Covent Garden première of Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki (The Tsarina's…

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Dominic West as Segismundo in Jonathan Munby's Donmar production of Calderon's Life is a Dream. Photo Johan Persson

Life is a Dream

8 Oct - 28 Nov 2009; not Sun

Dominic West, best known from The Wire, returns to the London stage in Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream. Jonathan Munby directs Helen Edmundson's new version of this 370-year-old…

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Fabulous Beast's fabulous production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, choreographed by Michael Keegan-Dolan at the London Colisuem. Photo Johan Persson / ENO

Bluebeard's Castle & The Rite of Spring at ENO

28 Nov 2009 (various dates)

English National Opera's music director Edward Gardner conducts a new double bill at the London Coliseum. Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, with Michaela Martens and Clive Bayley, joins…

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London Children's Film Festival. Courtesy of Sarah Harvey Publicity

London Children's Film Festival

21 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)

The annual London Children's Film Festival presents movies from around the world at cinemas across the capital, with the Barbican Centre as the main venue. The ruthless jury comprises kids…

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Reg E Cathey (Red) & Kevin Anderson (Andy Dufresne) in the Gaiety Dublin's production of The Shawshank Redemption. Photo Anthony Woods

The Shawshank Redemption

4 Sep - 29 Nov 2009; not Mon

Already an award-winning film, Stephen King's prison-salvation story comes to London's West End from its sell-out season at the Gaiety Dublin. The Shawshank Redemption, starring Reg E Cathey…

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Alina Cojocaru as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Peter Wright's Royal Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Photo by Bill Cooper, courtesy of Royal Ballet

The Nutcracker

30 Nov 2009 (various dates)

No Christmas would be complete without Tchaikovsky's wonderful ballet The Nutcracker. The Royal Ballet revives Peter Wright's acclaimed production (after Lev Ivanov), featuring a rolling roll…

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Photomonth

Oct - Nov 2009 (annual)

Inspired by the annual Mois de la Photo event in Paris, the two-month long Photomonth, with shows at a variety of galleries and spaces around the City and East London, explores photography as…

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Sandblast by Najla Mohamed Lamin, at Rich Mix. © Najla Mohamed Lamin

Photomonth / East London Photography Festival

1 Oct - 30 Nov 2009 (annual)

Photomonth has grown to become the East London Photography Festival with more than 80 exhibitions spread around 50 galleries and spaces in London's East End. The fantastic range of exhibitions…


Highlights

The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas

Adelphi Theatre

23 Sep - 21 Nov 2009; not Sun

The Sleeping Beauty

Royal Opera House

21 Nov 2009 (various dates)

Not Black and White

Tricycle Theatre

22 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 (various dates)