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Opening This Week: Tom Jones, Design for Living and Alvin Ailey

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5 April 2012
THE FIRST NIGHTS

A DISAPPEARING NUMBER
Novello, WC2
Tomorrow
Complicité's Evening Standard 2007 Award-winning play, which found unlikely human drama in mathematics and the Riemann zeta function, returns for a West End run.

DESIGN FOR LIVING
Old Vic, SE1
Wednesday
Tom Burke, Lisa Dillon and Andrew Scott are the three corners of Noël Coward's bohemian love triangle in a play initially banned in this country for its lax morality.

HOUSE OF GAMES
Almeida, N1
Thursday
David Mamet's screenplay about a Harvard psychoanalyst who becomes a compulsive gambler has been adapted for the stage by Richard Bean.

THE GIG

TOM JONES
Union Chapel, N1
Wednesday
Praise & Blame, the Welsh knicker-magnet's latest album, sees Jones (right) move away from novelty pop and embrace his love of gospel. Expect fire and brimstone in the pulpit.

THE OPERA

FAUST
Coliseum, WC2
Friday
English National Opera's season opens with a new production from Jersey Boys director Des McAnuff, which brings Gounod's opera to the present day.

THE DANCE

ALVIN AILEY
Sadler's Wells, EC1
Tomorrow
In one of the highlights of the autumn dance season, the 50-year-old American dance troupe returns to London to perform two programmes, the first setting athletic movement to Otis Redding songs.

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