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• Potted Potter

  Potted Potter – The Unauthorised Harry Experience, an Edinburgh Festival favourite full of chaotic family fun, returns to the West End at the Trafalgar Studio 2 this Christmas. Charlotte Marshall was in the very rowdy and hyperactive first night audience.

• Hansel And Gretel

  With Hansel And Gretel the festive choice of many theatres across London this Christmas, the Catherine Wheels Theatre company has devised an experience with a difference at the Barbican Theatre...

• Horrid Henry: Live And Horrid!

  I will be honest, not having any kids of my own, Horrid Henry: Live And Horrid! was my first experience of the imaginative young tearaway who delights in tormenting his younger brother and is a constant headache for his parents.

• Festive feast

  A veritable feast of seasonal offerings adorns the Christmas dinner table of Theatreland this year, with not one but two Cinderellas, a pair of Sleeping Beauties, an unprecedented number of Hansel And Gretels and even a partridge in a pear tree.

• Hit Me! The Life And Rhymes Of Ian Dury

  A warts-and-all portrait of the man who put the phrase 'sex and drugs and rock and roll' into the national psyche.

• Sunset Boulevard

  Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical returns to the West End for the first time in 11 years.

• Sister Act

  When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is forced to hide in the only place she definitely won't be found - a convent.

• Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

  A glorious romp, brimful of handclapping effervescent energy, dazzling dancing and smash-hit show-stoppers.

• Trio revealed as young Michael Jackson

  A former Billy Elliot and an ex-Lion King are to play the young Michael Jackson in tribute show Thriller – Live which plays at the Lyric theatre from 2 January. Layton Williams and Sterling Williams will alternate as the pre-pubescent popstrel along with newcomer Kieran Alleyne.

• Potted Potter

  Potted Potter – The Unauthorised Harry Experience, an Edinburgh Festival favourite full of chaotic family fun, returns to the West End at the Trafalgar Studio 2 this Christmas. Charlotte Marshall was in the very rowdy and hyperactive first night audience.

• A Little Night Music

  The Menier Chocolate Factory has made a rod for its own back with the number of musical productions it has transferred to the West End recently...

• Hansel And Gretel

  With Hansel And Gretel the festive choice of many theatres across London this Christmas, the Catherine Wheels Theatre company has devised an experience with a difference at the Barbican Theatre...