After a spring and summer which has seen quite a few new West End openings (Ghost at the Piccadilly and Shrek at Drury Lane in their midst), there are still some major shows to look forward to as autumn approaches (even if I’m writing this in the final gasps of a UK post-summer heatwave). Top of my list this autumn is Matilda the Musical which the RSC are doing at the Cambridge Theatre. It has, in fact, seen off the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, which had been doing okay business at the C...


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