Female voices, some of the best cutting edge music and a wide range of family shows are at the heart of The Albany’s new programme which,...

1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...

As we walked into the auditorium at the Albany to see the new dance work Donuts, three young women on stage were scrunched up together on...

Theatre matters. The world may be reeling under an apparently unceasing rain of disasters and setbacks – global warming, the Covid...

In the wake of lockdown, the Albany’s autumn season is using music, theatre, poetry, cabaret, comedy and family fun to celebrate the...

The Albany is set to lift our lockdown blues with a season of outdoor events catering for all tastes and ages called Summer In The...

Open Source Collaborations, a pioneering lockdown project launched by The Albany and Foreign Body Productions to help emerging artists...

The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...

South-east London is a crucible of cultural excellence and one of its most shimmering ingredients is the phenomenon that is Charles...

After six months of almost total lockdown, the Albany is not only reopening but is planning an ambitious three-month autumn season of...

There were a great many pleasures to be had in The House That Slipped, a witty and wise lockdown show devised, written and performed by...

Covid-19 scuppered any hope that Array, a two-night festival of immersive ambisonic sound and colour, would be staged 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...

Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...

Pure sound, like pure colour in a painting, can be transcendent, revealing depths of consciousness undreamt of in daily life. I had that...

The three Rs usually refers to reading, riting and rithmatic. But if you’re a Trinity Laban student it can also mean Roots, Riots,...

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....

Personal tragedy, particularly one involving the death of a child, is all-consuming. So how do we cope with having to watch other...

The Albany is giving another 2,000 free tickets to local schoolkids as part of a pioneering scheme – whose patrons are Oscar nominees...

It’s a sad fact that we don’t tell loved ones often enough just how much we love them. It’s another sad fact that that failure can evolve...

Multimedia theatre productions run the risk of letting technology overpower emotion. There was no danger of that, though, when Flight...

Steam Down Collective have already achieved legendary status in south-east London with their barnstorming residency at Deptford nightspot...

It’s tough to find new ways of presenting a fairytale as well-known and well-loved as Pinocchio without spoiling its inherent charm but...

Any talk of living guitar heroes almost inevitably zooms in on Messrs Clapton, Beck and Page. But there are others who are just as...

Euripides may have been one of the inventors of playwriting nearly two and half millennia ago but his works are still relevant, as Dennis...

Some of the most innovative public performance art I’ve ever seen graced Giffin Square, Deptford, over thee weekends in August. Four...

Blackheath Halls’ annual opera always has the community at its heart, with local residents and schoolkids performing alongside...

This coruscating two-hander at the Albany offered a near-perfect theatrical experience – a terrific play, great direction, a fine set and...