THEATRE REVIEW: The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? starring Sophie Okonedo & Damian Lewis

WORTH A LOOK?: **

WHERE: Theatre Royal Haymarket

WHEN: 24/3, runs to 27/5

Click-thump. The audience at this first preview starts leaving and tipping up their chairs, in very small, but regular, trickles around the middle of act two.

  • Read on for reasons including why it’s lucky this three-act play has no interval

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THEATRE REVIEW: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? starring Imelda Staunton

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHERE: Harold Pinter Theatre

WHEN: 24/2, runs to 27/5

It’s 2am and the wife of a university lecturer has invited a younger couple back to their home for some after party drinks.

  • Read on for reasons including why Staunton is the West End’s biggest talent

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9 reasons why we can’t wait for February

  1. Charlotte Perrelli returns to Melodifestivalen

Europe’s premiere Eurovision selection show launches on 4/2 at 7pm English time with the return of 1999 winner Charlotte Perrelli, who also won Melodifestivalen in 2008, MF favourites Ace Wilder, Dinah Nah and Boris Rene. 2012 Eurovision winner Loreen also competes in heat 4 25/2. Prime-time Saturday nights in February sorted. Picture via YouTube from the Take Me To Your Heaven performance in 1999’s Eurovision.

  • Read on for reasons including what Imelda Staunton did next, Sherlock goes Hamlet and the pick of the awards season

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THEATRE REVIEW: Sunny Afternoon

WORTH A LOOK?: ***

WHERE: Harold Pinter Theatre

WHEN: 26/12, booking to 16/4/16

We weren’t counting but there seemed to be at least 30 Kinks’ songs featured in this jukebox musical including the title track, Waterloo Sunset, Days, You Really Got Me, Lola and All Day and All Of The Night.

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