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Time and Space VISUALISER

Each issue, we tune into the activities of the Doctor Who luminaries past and present… and zoom in on a landmark moment from the series…

The cast of Paddington The Musical.

Theatre

Bonnie Langford is to play Mrs Bird in Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre London, from 1 November to 25 May 2025. Also in the cast are Amy Booth-Steel, Tom Edden and Teddy Kempner.

Ariyon Bakare can be seen as Claudius in Hamlet at the Chichester Festival Theatre alongside Nana Amoo-Gottfried and Sara Powell until 4 October.

Shakespeare’s Mistress, Louise Jameson’s one-woman show returns for two nights only: 12 October at the Old Woollen, Leeds and on 9 December at the Harrogate Theatre Studio. The show combines stories from her life as an actor, along with readings of her favourite Shakespeare sonnets.

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