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Ballet’s greatest love story returns in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s lavish production. This romantic fable of ill-fated passion, powerfully illuminated by Tchaikovsky’s legendary score played live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, has bewitched audiences for generations. In 2020 the production will tour to Southampton, Birmingham, Salford, Sunderland and Plymouth. By a moonlit lake, a grieving prince... Continue Reading →
Greenwich's iconic Old Royal Naval College has launched a special Gift Membership that includes an invitation to a Salon Evening on 23 January 2020. Guest artists, including Hugh Bonneville and Jane Asher, are taking part to support the continued conservation of the Old Royal Naval College's magnificent Baroque buildings. The Salon Evening, A Play for... Continue Reading →
NoFit State have announced the full list of perilous and playful circus acts in their latest production Lexicon opening at the Roundhouse on Friday 3 January 2020 for a strictly limited season. With an international cast from Brecon to Bologna, Finland to France and everywhere in between, the acts perform, live and travel together in... Continue Reading →
Twenty-five years after its first release, and on the very date it hit the Christmas Number 1 spot, original label, London Records, in conjunction with Waltham Forest: London Borough of Culture 2019, has released a brand new recording of the classic East 17 Christmas No1 Stay Another Day. The new version, specially arranged by acclaimed... Continue Reading →
Fire Hazard Games is launching an exciting, new urban game for adults, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic masterpiece, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Exploring schisms of identity, the unreliability of memory, moral conflict, terrible ambition, and unbridled hedonism, Jekyll / Hyde confronts players, asking what they would do if they could get away with... Continue Reading →
New Adventures is delighted to announce that Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! returns to London for a limited Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells in December 2020. The sweetest of all Matthew Bourne’s Christmas treats, it’s a Nutcracker! like no other. With family-sized helpings of Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from... Continue Reading →
Channing Tatum and his co-producers are delighted to announce that, due to continuing high ticket demand and overwhelming success in London, the booking period for Magic Mike Live has been extended to 28 June 2020. In addition, due to the high demand on weekends, the show schedule will change to accommodate more patrons. This comes... Continue Reading →
The WOW Foundation has today announced Naomi Wolf, Shazia Mirza, Scarlett Curtis, Sandi Toksvig, Mary Robinson and more have joined its 10th anniversary festival line-up in London. WOW - Women of the World Festival runs from 6 to 8 March across International Women’s Day at Southbank Centre, London. The line-up released today includes a whole range of day pass and ticketed... Continue Reading →
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Nicole Scherzinger will host and perform two intimate shows in London on December 8th and 9th at the Boulevard Theatre, Soho. The world-renowned performer will take to the stage and sing numbers from the musical theatre world, as well as some of her favourite classics and standards. Scherzinger’s acclaimed appearance on London’s West... Continue Reading →
