THE VAN DE VELDES: GREENWICH, ART AND THE SEA at the Queen’s House
Everyone’s heard of Rembrandt, so why isn’t his compatriot and contemporary Willem van de Velde, who was recognised in his day as a...
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COLAB 2023 at Laban, ORNC, St Alfege’s, Blackheath Halls & Queen’s House
Over the course of a fortnight, Trinity Laban students created and publicly performed programmes inspired by a breathtaking range of...
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THE RAGGED-TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS at Greenwich Theatre
There’s a key moment in writer-performer Neil Gore’s masterful adaptation of the Edwardian socialist polemic The Ragged Trousered...
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BA3 COMMISSIONED WORKS at Trinity Laban
Contrast is a powerful tool of artistic expression in any medium, as even a glimpse of a Caravaggio painting or a snatch of bel canto...
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SPRING SEASON at The Albany
After the Albany’s triumphant pivotal role in Lewisham’s term as London Borough of Culture 2022, the Albany is underscoring its...
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CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL at Greenwich Theatre
Greenwich Theatre children’s festival has been a much-loved highlight of the venue’s annual programme since the strand was launched in...
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WHAT SONGS MAY DO… at Laban theatre
The ellipse in the title of Rendez-Vous Dance’s mesmerising What Songs May Do… suggests multiple possibilities. By implication, it also...
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ROBIN HOOD at Greenwich Theatre
After more than a decade of legendary damehood, Andrew Pollard’s departure as star, writer and director of Greenwich Theatre’s revered...
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FEST EN FEST in Deptford
Great art thrives within the constraints of convention. But great art – whether words, dance, image or music - can also soar into the...
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LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC in and around Blackheath Halls
There’s a beguiling paradox at the heart of the annual London International Festival of Early Music – an unfailing ability to give a...
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CHRISTMAS IS COMING at Greenwich Theatre
Greenwich Theatre’s loved and lauded Christmas panto enters a new era this year with a different dame and a different writer for its...
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CANDIDE by Blackheath Halls Opera
Singing an exacting aria is a tough ask on its own but to do it while clowning is surely near-impossible. Yet that is the challenge...
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VOICES FROM WINDRUSH at Greenwich Theatre
Controversy tends to provoke increasingly extreme reactions. But as Voices From Windrush at Greenwich Theatre showed, a more measured...
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THE GRETCHEN QUESTION at The Shipwright, Deptford
The Gretchen Question couldn’t have a more serious theme – the catastrophe facing our planet due to manmade climate change. But rather...
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ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR at the National Maritime Museum
One hundred images make up the final selection of the annual Astronomy Photographer Of The Year award - and all of them are currently on...
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LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels
Music has a unique quality among the arts – it thrives when its present embraces its past. Painting, literature, film and architecture...
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GREENWICH+DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL across east and south-east London
The theme of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival was Common Ground, a concept given the greatest possible poignancy...
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TEMPEST HEADLINES AUTUMN SEASON at The Albany
The Albany's autumn programme this year focuses on personal responsibility, activism, forgotten histories and identity issues. Plus, of...
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LAUNCHING YEAR 2 at Woolwich Works
It’s a year since cultural hub Woolwich Works opened its doors with a huge launch party that starred soul queen Mica Paris and homegrown...
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GREENWICH COMEDY FESTIVAL at the National Maritime Museum
The 14th Greenwich Comedy Festival returns to the National Maritime Museum this year from 14-18 September – and what a feast of fun is on...
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