The English National Opera are closing their season with what's advertised as a 'lavish new production of the legendary Broadway musical', Kismet. This strange, hybrid stage musical (heavy Russian score mixes with a book filled with light Edwardian exotic melodrama, harems, beggars and murderers from 1071 AD mixing with 1950s lyrics) hasn't been performed on the West End stage for nearly 30 years. With its setting in Baghdad, and an entire song dedicated to......

Ever wonder what people must've filled their time with in the days before email, and sites like Londonist provided respite from the monotony of office life? Well, if this latest production of Alan 'History Boys' Bennett is anything to go by, the answer's not much. Office Suite takes us back to a time when co-workers addressed each other by their titles (Mr Skidmore, Ms Binns), filling in forms occupied three long hours, retirement really......