Opening in London this week

Back catalogue: Paul McCartney
5 April 2012
THE GIGS
Public Image Ltd
O2 Brixton Academy, SW9
Monday

Paul McCartney
The O2, SE10
Tuesday

Thumbs up for Macca as the ex-Beatle delves into his unparallelled back catalogue.

COMEDY
The Un-royal Variety performance
Bloomsbury Theatre
Monday

Featuring a mixture of the UK's best established and up and coming comic talent such as Angelos Epithemious (Shooting Stars), Kevin Eldon (Big Train, Brass Eye, Alan Partridge), Pappy's fun club, Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key and many more, The Un-royal Variety performance aims to be the last great comedy gig of the decade. All profits from the gig will go to paying the Fix Magazine's legal fees.

THE FIRST NIGHTS
Twelfth Night
Duke of York's, WC2
Tuesday

Richard Wilson brings his Malvolio to London in the RSC's production of Shakespeare's comedy

Footsbarn Xmas Cracker
Shakespeare's Globe, SE1
Tuesday

Travelling theatre troupe Footsbarn recreate a bawdy Elizabethan Christmas at the Globe.

THE FILMS
Nowhere Boy
Nationwide
Boxing Day

Young John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) discovers rock'n'roll and motherly love in Sam Taylor-Wood's debut.

Sherlock Holmes
Nationwide
Boxing Day

Experimental, my dear Watson! Guy Ritchie's revisionist take on the sleuth stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

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