CITY OF ANGELS at Laban theatre
It’s impossible to come out of Trinity Laban musical theatre department’s epic production of the Broadway hit City Of Angels without...
Miles Hedley
- Dec 11, 2019
- 1 min
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Greenwich Theatre
Our modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET at Blackheath Halls
What could be musically more exciting than a live jazz-funk gig? One featuring James Taylor on Hammond organ, that’s what. His show at...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
ROBERT VINCENT at Mycenae House
Robert Vincent has been called the Scouse Springsteen but in fact he’s vastly more than that. Although his Americana-drenched...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
SLEEPING BEAUTY at Greenwich Theatre
One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
SUMMIT DANCE THEATRE at Laban
Producers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
ROSIE KAY: FANTASIA at Laban
Artists are drawn to the darker side of the human condition – for every enigmatic Mona Lisa smile or Ode To Joy there are any number of...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
LEST WE FORGET at Greenwich Theatre
There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
STEVE REICH at Trinity Laban
Superstar composer Steve Reich came to Trinity Laban to be given an honorary fellowship, answer questions from students (above) and watch...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 10, 2019
- 2 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath
If anyone ever doubts the contemporary relevance of what’s played and displayed at the perennially marvellous London International...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min
CURTAIN’D SLEEP at Greenwich Theatre
Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
CLIVE CARROLL & FRIENDS at Mycenae House
There is at least one guitar hero for every kind of popular music - folk legend Richard Thompson, bluesman Buddy Guy or jazz giant Wes...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 25, 2019
- 2 min
SHAPESHIFTER at Blackheath Halls
I’m not given to rating events out of 10 but if I had to I wouldn’t hesitate to award Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter and Contemporary Music...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
JOHN TAMS & BARRY COOPE at Cutty Sark
Contrasts matter. Bad weather helps us appreciate good, sadness joy, chaos calm. And the banter between folk legends John Tams and Barry...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
HOCUS POCUS at the Albany
Forty-something years ago, the tagline for the blockbuster Christopher Reeve movie Superman was You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly because the...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 15, 2019
- 2 min
DEAF MEN DANCING at Laban
A stunning show at Laban theatre by Deaf Men Dancing contained any number of great moments – but the best for me was a simple...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 7, 2019
- 1 min
CREAK at Creekside Discovery Centre
With half-term fast approaching, here’s a must-see for all ages at Creekside Discovery Centre – a chance to splash about in the river at...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the Albany, Laban and across Lewisham
Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
NICK HARPER at Mycenae House
Fifty years ago Nick Harper was a four-year-old boy living with his parents in a one-bedroom flat at 58 Fordwych Road in Kilburn. But...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 4, 2019
- 1 min
BKLYN THE MUSICAL at Greenwich Theatre
If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
LONDON INT SCREEN DANCE FESTIVAL at Laban
Dance films have to be so much more than just performances captured on film – they have to be cinematic artworks in their own right. And...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 23, 2019
- 1 min
ZOE & IDRIS RAHMAN at Mycenae House
Great jazz musicians seem to have an almost telepathic understanding with their bandmates. And when, as in the case of Zoe and Idris...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 21, 2019
- 2 min
PARKSFEST at Mycenae House
Traditional folk music, American blues and organ-driven jazz all on the same bill in the lovely surroundings of Mycenae House gardens -...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 20, 2019
- 1 min
MUSE at the 02 London
In a full assault on the senses, rock giants Muse threw everything at their O2 London audience. Not only did they play a storming set of...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 17, 2019
- 1 min
INSIGHT ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR at the National Maritime Museum
The annual Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer Of The Year winners’ exhibition returns to the National Maritime Museum with some of...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 2 min
NICK RAYNSFORD at The Greenwich Gallery
There are pictures in Reflections 4 Labour, the gorgeous new exhibition of works by Nick Raynsford at the Greenwich Gallery, which are so...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 1 min
IN AND OUT OF CHEKHOV’S SHORTS at Greenwich Theatre
Anton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
JADE CITY at The Bunker in Southwark
The harrowing damage to mental health caused by poverty, lack of opportunity and official indifference is the theme of Alice Malseed’s...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
NELL GWYNN at Severndroog Castle
Restoration comedy is about mocking the ruling class and shocking audiences. Both feats are hilariously achieved in Nell Gwynn, Jessica...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 18, 2019
- 4 min
THE MOON at the National Maritime Museum
Two of the most iconic photos ever are Earthrise, the shot of our blue planet taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited the moon, and the picture...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 17, 2019
- 3 min
ROD KITSON: ART BY THE SQUARE FOOT at Surrey Quays
The spaces where artists work have inspired some of the finest paintings in history - just think of Velasquez’s mysterious Las Meninas or...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
LA BELLE HÉLÈNE at Blackheath Halls
Get it wrong and comic opera can be a disaster. But get it right, like this year’s sold-out Blackheath Halls opera La Belle Hélène, and...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
NONCLASSICAL at the Albany
Pure sound, like pure colour in a painting, can be transcendent, revealing depths of consciousness undreamt of in daily life. I had that...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 8, 2019
- 3 min
GREENWICH & DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The divisions in British society today are as wide and bitter as they have been in decades, which is why events that celebrate...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 4, 2019
- 1 min
SVADBA at the Queen’s House
A brilliant contemporary opera written by a woman with an all-female cast – there could be no better way to round off Trinity Laban’s...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
THE WINTER’S TALE at St George’s Garrison Church
By Reeva Charles On a glorious summer’s evening Changeling Theatre used a stunning outdoor setting in Woolwich for a production of The...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 30, 2019
- 2 min
CHRIS WOOD at Mycenae House
Singer-songwriter Chris Wood is not only a great musician, he’s also one of our greatest ever lyricists. His ear for the sort of minutiae...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
M.E.H at Greenwich Theatre
One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 26, 2019
- 2 min
ROOTS, RIOTS, REMEMBRANCE at the Albany
The three Rs usually refers to reading, riting and rithmatic. But if you’re a Trinity Laban student it can also mean Roots, Riots,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
SWEET CHARITY at Blackheath Halls
Sweet Charity has a heck of a musical pedigree – the original director was Bob Fosse, the book was by Neil Simon and the near-perfect...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 24, 2019
- 1 min
SURGE at the Albany
Close to the Albany stands a house where, in 1981, a fire killed 13 black youngsters and injured many more during a 16th birthday party....
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 17, 2019
- 3 min
GREENWICH BOOK FESTIVAL at University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College & Greenwich Theatre
This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
BIRTH ENSEMBLE at St Alfege’s Church
There are free lunchtime recitals at St Alfege’s pretty much every week of the year and the range of programmes on offer is...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min
WORLD OCEANS DAY at the National Maritime Museum
There were some terrifying statistics highlighted at World Oceans Day at the National Maritime Museum. For example, without radical...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min
THE HUNTERS GRIMM at Catford Broadway
If I walked down a busy shopping street and saw a talking wolf on the pavement, a bevy of dancing princesses in red capes or a pack of...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 7, 2019
- 2 min
TRANSITIONS Dance triple bill at Laban
If you ever wanted an example of the diversity dance is capable of providing you’d struggle to find a better one than Transitions’ triple...
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Miles Hedley
- May 27, 2019
- 2 min
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS in the Royal Observatory Garden
Is there a story in the English language that’s better known or more loved than The Wind In The Willows? I doubt it – but that makes it a...
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Miles Hedley
- May 26, 2019
- 2 min
SECRET RIVERS at the Museum of London Docklands
We’re rather spoilt for enjoying rivers in Greenwich because not only do we have the Thames but a stone’s throw away is Deptford Creek...
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Miles Hedley
- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
CHURCHFITTERS at Mycenae House
Pound for pound, folk music has more than its fair share of virtuosi - but can sometimes come across as rather worthy, a strange...
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Miles Hedley
- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
SALOMÉ at Greenwich Theatre
You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...
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