Scrooge, carols, parachuting brussels sprouts...it's that time of the year again, as Nick and Nancy and Nick head to the Old Vic to see its annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack Thorne and this year starring John Simm as the rotten old miser. Will the three of them keep Christmas in their heart always, or is it a load of humbug?

As panto season gets underway, Nick Clark reports back from Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith, with a lot of love for Widow Twerky.

All's Well That Ends Well at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse - or does it? The trio give their verdict on one of Shakespeare's weirdest plays.

And the legend that is Sir Simon Russell Beale pops by to talk about House of the Dragon, what number to ring if you want to check you've received a knighthood, and tackling Latin love poetry in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre.

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