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London / Theatre
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Hair
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1st April 2010 and 8th January 2011
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Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho,
London, W1D6AR
1 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
The original Broadway cast are transferring to London's West End for this latest production of Hair, the 1960s musical written...
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London / Theatre
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All My Sons
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19th May 2010 and 2nd October 2010
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Apollo Theatre, 29 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho,
London, W1D7EZ
2 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
David Suchet, best known for his perfectly neat portrayal of Hercule Poirot in the eponymous ITV detective series, and the...
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London / Kids Events
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Kids' Week
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13th August 2010 and 27th August 2010
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The West End, , Soho,
London, WC2H7BP
3 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
It's now over a decade since the excellent idea of Kids' Week was first conjured up. A truly inspired summer...
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London / Theatre
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Musical
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10th March 2009 and 28th May 2011
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Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho,
London, W1A4AF
3 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Two transvestites and a transsexual, heading deep into Australian redneck territory in a bus called Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,...
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London / Comedy
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Neil Hamburger
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23rd August 2010 and 28th August 2010
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Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, Soho,
London, W1D3NE
4 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger coughs and splutters his way to the Soho Theatre for six nights of crude, subversive and...
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London / Theatre
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Avenue Q
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19th March 2010 and 30th September 2010
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Wyndhams Theatre, Charing Cross Road, Soho,
London, WC2H0DA
4 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Meet Princeton, Kate Monster, Trekkie, Brian and their friends on a crummy alleyway in New York as they find out...
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London / Theatre
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39 Steps, The
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14th September 2006 and 23rd October 2010
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Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, St James's,
London, SW1Y4XA
4 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Hitchcock's 1935 movie is a masterpiece of sustained adventure, as the hero - framed for murder - becomes both pursuer...
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London / Theatre
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La Bete
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26th June 2010 and 4th September 2010
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Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, Soho,
London, SW1Y4DN
5 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing), David Hyde Pierce (Niles in Frasier) and Joanna Lumley (Ab Fab actress and Gurkha guardian) star...
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London / Theatre
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Birdsong
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18th September 2010 and 15th January 2011
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Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, Soho,
London, SW1Y4DN
5 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Trevor Nunn directs Rachel Wagstaff's stage version of Birdsong, the hugely popular First World War novel by Sebastian Faulks. This...
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London / Theatre
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Enron
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16th January 2010 and 14th August 2010
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Noel Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4AU
5 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Lucy Prebble's contemporary drama charting the infamous financial scandal surrounding Enron transfers to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre following...
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London / Theatre
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Sweet Charity
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23rd April 2010 and 8th January 2011
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Haymarket Theatre Royal, Haymarket, SW1Y4HT
6 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Tamzin Outhwaite stars as the unlucky-in-love taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine in this revival of Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Sweet...
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London / Theatre
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Ghost Stories
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25th June 2010 and 7th September 2010
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Duke of York's, St Martins Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4BG
6 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Following a phenomenally successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith, Ghost Stories transfers to the Duke of York's theatre in the...
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London / Exhibitions
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BP Portrait Award 2010
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24th June 2010 and 19th September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
6 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
The three shortlisted artists for this year's £25,000 BP Portrait Award are David Eichenberg, Michael Gaskell and Daphne Todd for...
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London / Exhibitions
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Alex Katz Paints Anna Wintour
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15th May 2010 and 21st September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
6 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
She's America's most influential fashion editor, dubbed 'Nuclear Wintour' for her cool manner - said to have inspired the Meryl...
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London / Exhibitions
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Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals
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13th October 2010 and 16th January 2011
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National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Westminster,
London, WC2N5DN
7 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Canaletto, the Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice, is the star of the National Gallery's display...
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London / Dance
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Carlos Acosta: Premieres
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28th July 2010 and 7th August 2010
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London Coliseum - English National Opera (ENO), St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4ES
7 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Carlos Acosta, the award winning Cuban-born dancer and Principal Guest Artist of the Royal Ballet presents Premieres, an exciting programme...
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London / Exhibitions
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London Design Festival, The
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18th September 2010 and 26th September 2010
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Trafalgar Square, Central London, Westminster,
London, WC2N5DS
8 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
The London Design Festival is an ambitious project. Hundreds of events, locations, shops, universities and design agencies are involved in...
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London / Seasonal
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Great Christmas Pudding Race
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4th December 2010
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Covent Garden Piazza, Covent Garden, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E9DD
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
You're familiar with the egg and spoon race. Well how about the Christmas Pudding Race? Covent Garden Piazza swells with...
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London / Shopping
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Covent Garden Real Food Market
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Every Saturday 10.30am-6pm
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Covent Garden Piazza, Covent Garden, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E9DD
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Covent Garden's Piazza returns to its original purpose, as a food market, every Saturday from 3rd April until Christmas 2010....
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London / Theatre
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Wizard Of Oz, The
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29th March 2011 and 17th September 2011
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London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, Soho,
London, W1F7TF
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz! Following a televised talent show search for a Dorothy...
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London / Theatre
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Love Never Dies
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20th February 2010 and 23rd October 2010
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Adelphi Theatre, 18-20 Maiden Lane, The Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E7NA
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
The long-awaited sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, makes its world premiere in London at the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Sargent and the Sea
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10th July 2010 and 26th September 2010
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Mayfair,
London, W1J0BD
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Best known for his society portraits, American artist John Singer Sargent was also passionate about the sea, a subject which recurs...
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London / Exhibitions
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010
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14th June 2010 and 22nd August 2010
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Mayfair,
London, W1J0BD
9 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Anyone can submit to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the world's largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition, which gives it a...
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London / Theatre
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Prisoner Of Second Avenue, The
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30th June 2010 and 11th September 2010
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Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2R0NH
10 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Jeff Goldblum stars in the Old Vic's production at the Vaudeville Theatre of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, a 1970s-set...
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London / Theatre
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Oliver!
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12th December 2008 and 26th February 2011
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Catherine Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B5JF
12 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
Lionel Bart's smashing Victorian musical has had two previous London productions which both ran for over 100 performances, but there's...
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London / Theatre
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Legally Blonde The Musical
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5th December 2009 and 29th October 2011
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Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2R0ET
12 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
The 2001 film Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon, really was a fabulous addition to the dizzy world of chick flicks,...
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London / Exhibitions
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Staffordshire Hoard, The
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3rd November 2009 and 31st December 2010
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British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury,
London, WC1B3DG
12 minutes walk from Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Hotel
When it was discovered in July 2009 by metal detectorist Terry Herbert The Staffordshire Hoard was likened to the discovery...
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