Theatre & Listings

MONSTERS IN THE WARDROBE
03 Apr 13 - AS CHILDREN we all had monsters living under our beds, and always needed the landing light on when climbing the stairs, writes Michael Holland... ..

BOB MELLISH IN THE HOUSE
20 Mar 13 - THE NATIONAL Theatre is a beautiful building inside; its bare concrete walls years ahead of its time. The history it makes does not stretch back as far as West End theatres, but the work produced here is already legendary...

OPERA IN SPACE
20 Dec 12 - Opera in Space sounds like a comedy sketch but these people are deadly serious, they say they want to drag ‘operatic performance kicking and screaming into the 21st Century’. ..

MERRILY WE BETRAY OUR FRIENDS
06 Dec 12 - The Menier is a lovely theatre, modern, with quirky industrial features that make it stand out from the rest. ..

SHREK THE MUSICAL
29 Nov 12 - WITH TREPIDATION and apologies to my companion I sat myself down in the Drury Lane Theatre surrounded on what seemed like all sides by sugar induced maniacs...

FREE COMEDY SHOW
25 Oct 12 - OR, IT is Free until Famous, which is the title of Nunhead comic Lewis Schaffer’s show...

DIGITAL CRYSTAL CLEAR
05 Sep 12 - DIGITAL CRYSTAL is the latest exhibition coming to the Design Museum. Over the past decade, Swarovski’s design and architecture commissions have served as an experimental platform for leading figures in design to conceptualise, develop and share their most radical ideas. ..

SAVED BY THE UNION
30 Aug 12 - SAVE ME is a new play by Caroline af Petersens, the psychoanalyst, philosophy lecturer, kick-boxer...

FUNNY BOYS
25 Jul 12 - The LAUGHING Boy Comedy Club had two well-known comedians on last week as they tried to get in a bit more practice before taking their new shows to the Edinburgh Festival...

SHREWD WORK AT THE GLOBE
11 Jul 12 - TEH CHARMS of watching a performance at the Globe never fail to wane...

READ NOT DEAD
11 Jul 12 - THIS SUMMER, Globe Education is marking the 200th performance in its popular Read Not Dead series by celebrating the works of some of the greatest dramatists of the early modern era...

DANCE IN THE PUBLIC HOUSE
04 Jul 12 - AFTER WHAT was a trying day at work, I sat down at my P.C. and dutifully planned my route for the evening on TFL, feeling a tad unenthusiastic and devoid of my normal excitement at an evening’s entertainment at the Theatre...

THE GREAT OUTDOORS
04 Jul 12 - THE NEWLY opened Canada Water plaza is flanked by a lake that acts as a migration site for wild fowl on one side and a bus terminus that acts as a migration site for commuters on the other. This location has provided the inspiration for Bubble’s latest piece, The Great Outdoors...

HERO RETURNS TO PECKHAM
04 Jul 12 - VERA VERA Vera, a new play by Hayley Squires, produced at the Royal Court Theatre as part of its Young Writers Festival opens at the Bussey Building in Peckham...

UNION GETS FIXED
27 Jun 12 - WITH SO many awards connected to it these days, being in the Union Theatre is like being in the Bernabau...

PANIC IN THE PIPELINE
27 Jun 12 - A STATELY set reflected the glory of Government; oak panelling and high ceilings mirrored the importance of high office; shelves of leather bound books looked haughtily at a leather topped desk and a pair of Chesterfields. ..

CUBANS INVADE SOUTBANK
13 Jun 12 - GET A mariachi band, add some brass and drums, front it all up with half a dozen dancers who really have got the moves and you’re halfway to Havana Rumba, the sensational dance show that is wowing audiences in the upside down purple cow in Jubilee Gardens, writes Michael Holland... ..

MARCH OF THE MOD
13 Jun 12 - CAMBERWELLIAN MARK Baxter is the co-author of a new book on style: The A-Z of Mod. Along with writer Paolo Hewitt the local boy has put together a book that details all the major Mod players and how they have influenced music and fashion for the past 50 years, writes Michael Holland.....

OVERCOOKED MEAT
13 Jun 12 - JIMMY OSBOURNE'S Osborne’s ‘Meat’ was a little charred in places and in others too rare, which I’m sorry to say as there were some good performances and great humourous touche, writes Susan Hallissey... ..

MEXICO CALLING ROTHERHITHE
30 May 12 - ROTHERHITHE ARTIST Ed Gray opened his latest exhibition of works at Milagros in Bethnal Green. On show were the paintings he created when in Mexico and show the magic and modernity of that country in all its glory...