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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EARLY AUTUMN WITH PREMIERES at Greenwich Theatre
Greenwich Theatre and its artistic director James Haddrell have a gift for attracting big names and high-quality work. In recent times...
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CHANGELING THEATRE at Severndroog Castle
For a masterclass in the actor’s art, Changeling Theatre’s two-night, two-play sojourn in the grounds of Severndroog Castle was the real...
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GFMA COMMONWEALTH FESTIVAL at Charlton Park
As a nation we love a good party – just look at the thousands of public and private beanos to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. So a...
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ALLY IN WONDERLAND at Lesnes Abbey
Everything about Ruined Theatre’s Ally In Wonderland is not only entertaining but also really clever because it works on so many levels....
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END-OF-YEAR DANCE SHOWS at Trinity Laban
The tropical heat outside may have been close to unbearable but inside the wonderfully air-conditioned Laban building the only heat was...
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AN INTERVENTION at Greenwich Theatre
Two fine performances are at the heart of Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention at Greenwich Theatre – and they needed to be good because the...
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CLIMATE HOME FESTIVAL presented by The Albany
While politicians, big business and The Market prevaricate endlessly about how to ease global warming but still make money, young people...