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" Image by Johan Persson An Audience with Dame Diana Rigg and NSPCC Carols by Candlelight Join us in supporting the NSPCC at its Carols by Candlelight concert on 1 December at Christ Church Spitalfields.\u00A0Tickets cost \u00A385 and include a drinks reception, a silent auction featuring perfect Christmas presents, a seat at the concert (worth \u00A335 alone), a goodie bag and a subscription to\u00A0Bazaar. It&amp;#039;s also your chance to hear\u00A0Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar&amp;#039;s Sasha Slater\u00A0in conversation with NSPCC celebrity reader Dame Diana Rigg.\u00A0To book, click\u00A0here, and please enter the code\u00A0HarpersBazaarReader\u00A0in the promotional code box to reveal the exclusive\u00A0Harper\u2019s Bazaar\u00A0tickets available for purchase. For any questions, please refer to the\u00A0FAQs on the ticket page.\u00A0Eventbrite booking fee applies. The Winter\u2019s Tale at the Garrick Judi Dench will star as Paulina opposite Kenneth Branagh as Leontes in this much-anticipated performance of Shakespeare\u2019s tragicomedy The Winter\u2019s Tale,\u00A0directed by Branagh at the Garrick theatre. The play will run until 16 January 2016, but tickets are selling out fast. If you do miss out, book tickets instead for the first live screening from the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, which will premiere The Winter\u2019s Tale at cinemas worldwide on Thursday 26 November 2015 at 7pm.The Winter\u2019s Tale, The Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, London WC2. Ring 0330 333 4811 to book. \u00A0Matthew Bourne\u2019s Sleeping Beauty at Sadler\u2019s Wells Bourne\u2019s production of Sleeping Beauty broke box-office records in the UK and the US when it debuted in 2012. This December, it returns to Sadler\u2019s Wells for an eight-week run. Bourne\u2019s ballet is a gothic twist on the fairy-tale romance, which begins in 1890 at the christening of Princess Aurora and moves forward in time to the modern day. Expect dancing fairies and vampires as well as the characters immortalised by Disney.Sadler&amp;#039;s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1. 1 Dec 2015\u201324 January 2016. Tickets from \u00A312. sadlerswells.com  Northern Ballet&amp;#039;s The Nutcracker There are few ballets more festive than The Nutcracker, as a young girl is swept away to a winter wonderland of dancing snowflakes and the Sugar Plum Fairy with her Nutcracker Prince. Set to Tchaikovsky\u2019s enduringly beautiful score, it\u2019s a ballet that one can continually be mesmerised by, and Northern Ballet\u2019s production is not to be missed.Touring from 4 November 2015 to 2 January 2016. Visit\u00A0northernballet.com/the-nutcracker Win tickets to The Nutcracker, plus a \u00A3500 shopping spree at Harvey Nichols, in our current\u00A0competition. The Snowman at Peacock Theatre Raymond Briggs&amp;#039; sentimental story of a young boy and his snowman friend has been transformed into a musical stage production by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.\u00A0Kids will love it, and you won\u2019t have to sit shouting: \u2018He\u2019s behind you!\u2019Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2. 25 November 2015\u20133 January 2016. Tickets from \u00A315. Visit peacocktheatre.com.  \u00A0Carols by Candlelight, Smithfield This annual charity carol concert is held at Saint Bartholomew the Great, one of London\u2019s oldest and prettiest churches in Farringdon, next to Smithfield market. The north-London Military Wives Choir will be joined by the South Hampstead Junior School Chamber Choir and opera singer Janine Roebuck to perform carols and Christmas songs; after the service there will be mulled wine and mince pies in the Cloister Cafe. There are often a few well-known faces in attendance and this year, Richard Wilson OBE, Dame Esther Rantzen and newsreader Martyn Lewis will be taking the readings. \u00A07 December, 6.30pm. St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London. Tickets are \u00A315, with proceeds going to Action on Hearing Loss. To book ring 020 7296 8172. \u00A0 ***MORE CULTURE Bafta to host Kate Winslet career retrospectiveBritish actress of the year: Sienna MillerThe best Bond girls \u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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