Trying to bag tickets to watch Merchant of Venice at the Globe theatre in the summer sun and it’s all sold out? Don’t worry, why not go one step beyond and write your own stage classic and sell out your local community hall in the sun! Not appealing enough? Too much hard work? Well even […]
Caryl Churchill’s relationship with the Royal Court stems back to her 1974-1975 residency there and the theatre’s retrospective of her plays on her 70th birthday shows the high regard in which she is held. Notably, a 2009 short play Seven Jewish Children (also at the Royal Court) about the history of Israeli-Palestine relations was shorter than […]
If you’ve had your fill of reality TV and talent shows such as TOWIE, I’m A Celebrity and X Factor perhaps a trip to the theatre is in order. And as chance will have it a certain new stage production makes light of all the hopeless, talentless types seeking overnight fame on the small screen […]
Women Filmmakers Triumph At Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest, London At the first-ever UK festival dedicated to the surreal and uncanny, filmmaker Rocio Rocha from Argentina wins the trophy for Best Film as her experimental short The Inhabitants Of Me wows the judges. Lisa Battocchio from Italy wins the coveted Best Director category for her […]
Whilst our beloved city London is under lockdown to contain the covid-19 pandemic, one of the breathtaking captures floating around on social media are footages of London’s iconic sights and structures deserted and devoid of people. No doubt the capital will bounce back slowly and gradually and the locals and tourists will eventually throng to […]
South Bank’s 1951 Festival of Britain may be the blueprint for a 2022 Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland Britain’s past Great Exhibitions were held as landmark events to showcase the nation’s arts and technology. The post-Brexit Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland planned for 2022 will be inevitably tied to the contentious EU referendum […]
For a club so relatively young The Box in Soho, London has already built up a reputation amongst the capital’s VIP clubs and has an intriguing and colourful history. Owned by Simon Hammerstein (grandson of celebrated lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II), it was launched in 2011 as a ‘theatre of varieties’ and is located on the […]
THE EAST END of London has had its fair number of cockney rockers and crooners. The London Borough of Newham is notable among East London districts for producing an Iron Maiden guitarist who turned down the chance to play professional soccer for West Ham as well as a rock guitar-playing West Ham manager who turned […]
The Stockwell Playhouse in South West London has announced a Five Minute Theatre Festival where brevity is the only rule. They are seeking forty plays of five minutes or under for this event in November with only ten making it to the Grand Final where an overall winner will be selected. If you think five […]
TODAY, Sept 26, is the opening day of the HighTide Festival 2017, the first of its kind in London with Walthamstow the preferred location in the capital. There will be 12 days of live performance ranging from cabaret to theatre. A temporary theatre called The Mix has been set up in Festival Square, Walthamstow Town […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
