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Norfolk & Norwich Festival has today announced the full programme for its 2020 Festival (8 - 24 May). The vast and wide-ranging programme across 17 days showcases artists from around the city and county, welcoming performers from across the globe exploring whilst Norfolk’s local identity. Presenting a huge variety of events including theatre, music, visual... Continue Reading →
The Visionary Arts Foundation is delighted to announce the shortlist for the annual Visionary Honours awards on Wednesday 18th March 2020 at the Ham Yard Hotel, Soho, hosted by leading British comic and disability rights advocate Sally Phillips and featuring a special guest performance by rising star singer-songwriter Marika Hackman. Focused on making the arts,... Continue Reading →
The Philharmonia Orchestra announces its new season as Resident Orchestra at Southbank Centre featuring its broadest range yet of distinctive programming from Verdi, Strauss and Clara Schumann to Jonathan Dove, Tyshawn Sorey and The National’s Bryce Dessner, performed by some of the greatest artists in classical music. Key highlights: In his final season as Principal... Continue Reading →
From Beatrix Potter’s idyllic illustrations of the world of Peter Rabbit, to the life-size West End War Horse puppet Joey, to designs by contemporary superstars Virgil Abloh and Olafur Eliasson, star exhibits and concepts are today revealed for a radical £13m reimagination of the V&A Museum of Childhood. A transformed free-to-access collection set within interactive... Continue Reading →
To mark their 5th season, the 2020 Avex Recital Series will host four concerts by a new generation of leading Japanese artists. 2020 sees the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth and 27 June will showcase Beethoven virtuoso, the highly-renowned blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. Other musicians in this year’s series are pianist Yu Kosuge (23 May),... Continue Reading →
It’s been more than ten years since Lucie Jones shot to fame after reaching the finals of the X Factor, and it’s fair to say she’s had a pretty good decade. The actor and solo artist represented the United Kingdom at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, leading the UK to its best result in eight... Continue Reading →
Darren Bell for Club 11 London is delighted to announce Grammy-nominated stage, television and film actor, singer, and songwriter, Cheyenne Jackson, will perform his first ever UK concert at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 28 June at 2.30pm & 6.30pm. Cheyenne said: “I’m busting with excitement about making my London debut in 2020. I have close... Continue Reading →
Artistic Curators Edmund Finnis, Kate Molleson, Errollyn Wallen CBE and CEO Sarah Gee have today revealed the programme for this year’s Spitalfields Music Festival, which returns to Christ Church, the site where the festival originated 43 years ago, over the weekend of 24-28 June. Acclaimed artists from a range of musical styles will bring their extraordinary performances to the heart of... Continue Reading →
Production images have been released for King’s Head Theatre’s Puccini double-bill Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème which runs at Trafalgar Studios 2 until 7 March. Opera Undone is a new strand of the King’s Head Theatre’s celebrated opera programming, whereby famous operas are radically reimagined in a new punchy 60-minute format, sung entirely in... Continue Reading →
