Exploring London since 2007
The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green is putting on a rather controversial exhibition from this Saturday, 25 May – War Games. War Games looks at the children’s toys which have been produced since around 1800, from the frighteningly real to the fantastical. Visitors will discover the board games that reflect the military conflicts that [...]
Clerkenwell Design Week is a chance to see the newest of British and international (mostly European) design in a very convenient way – it’s compact, with three venues and fifty exhibitors participating this year, all of which are easily walkable from one to another. So what will you find if you go along tomorrow? Maybe it’s the [...]
London is justly celebrated for its galleries. With over 300 galleries and museums dotted across the city, many of them free, it isn’t hard to see why. Whether your tastes are classic, contemporary, modernist or even post-modernist, London’s galleries are sure to deliver. While it’s true that London can be hard on the wallet when [...]
Forget the film of the same name which is attracting a lot of attention at the moment – the Gatsby you didn’t want to miss was the Northern Ballet production at Sadler’s Wells. If you did, I’m very sorry, because London was the last stop on their UK tour so you’ve missed your chance for [...]
Currently on stage in Walthamstow’s dedicated theatre space. upstairs at the Olde Rose & Crown on Hoe St, is in-house professional theatre company All Star Productions’ latest musical – Phantom. Based on the Gaston Leroux novel, this version of Phantom follows the libretto and score devised by Maury Weston and Arthur Kopit (rather than the [...]
Opening the first season at London’s brand spanking new North London performance space, the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, is a new production of Melanie Marnich’s 2008 play, These Shining Lives. Directed by Loveday Ingram, These Shining Lives is a story about the women workers of Westclox who were responsible for painting the glow-in-the-dark dials [...]
Opening tonight at the theatre which boasts the most unusual ceiling in London – the stars – is Timothy Sheader production of To Kill A Mockingbird, which kicks off the exciting 2013 season at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Based on the Harper Lee story that explores issues around race and inequality in 1930s [...]
