Theatre & Listings

APATHY IN THE UK
16 May 12 - IT IS 2012, and Londoners live in interesting times. Anniversaries of the Titanic, Shakespeare, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics...

CUBA INVADES SOUTHBANK
16 May 12 - An intoxicating cocktail of Rumba, Salsa, Rum and Reggaeton will explode onto the E4 Udderbelly Festival stage this summer...

THE HONOURED SUIT
16 May 12 - PETER BROOK and Marie-Hélène Estienne co-direct Can Themba's hauntingly beautiful story The Suit, with music by Franck Krwczyk...

BRIDGE OF GAMES
09 May 12 - A NEW exhibition - Cities of the Modern Games - was opened by multi-Olympic Gold winner Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson in Tower Bridge that celebrates the history of the modern Olympics. Twenty-six large cityscapes show every city that has held the games since their rebirth in Athens in 1896...

SHIVERMAN BY JAMES SHELON
09 May 12 - WHEN ‘SHIVERMAN’ began my heart sank. Too wordy, too much background story I thought. Audiences don’t need spoon feeding and I was apprehensive that this naturalistic piece would lose me in dialogue...

APE REVIVAL AT THEATRE
09 May 12 - THE FIRST major London revival in over 25 years of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape opens at the Main House, Southwark Playhouse for a four week run on Friday, 18 May with previews from 16 May 2012...

SIGNING KILLER ON THE LOOSE
09 May 12 - MORPHIC GRAFFITI present: Jekyll and Hyde – the musical. Sinister, chilling and macabre, Jekyll and Hyde is the ultimate story of good versus evil. ..

OUTSIDE BET'S A RACING CERTAINTY
02 May 12 - THE FILM Outside Bet is loosely based on Camberwell man Mark Baxter’s semi-autobiographical notes, which were given a make-over by writer Paulo Hewitt, then fictionalised to become The Mumper...

MAMUSKA PHOTOGRAPHY
02 May 12 - NEW PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition “Sight of a Woman”, showing work of four Polish female artists can be seen in Bar Mamuska! in the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. ..

CIRCUS CANTINA
25 Apr 12 - DELIGHTFULLY DARK Australian circus hit Cantina makes its London premiere this summer, headlining The London Wonderground at Southbank Centre...

KIDS SAVE THEATRE
25 Apr 12 - AS SPRING turns into winter instead of summer we all look for something to warm our hearts, so what better than a Rodgers and Hart musical in that old, winning tradition of ‘let’s put on a show right here’?..

A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
18 Apr 12 - AS MARY, (played hauntingly by Laurie Metcalf) the mother in this autobiographical play by Eugene O’Neill, begins yet another relapse with ‘the poison’, we see the beginnings of a dysfunctional family implosion, writes Susan Hallissey.....

THE DRAMA OF STOP AND SEARCH
18 Apr 12 - THIERRY HARCOURT directs Dominic Taylor’s compelling new play, Stop Search, a gritty and hard-hitting look at the impact of police stop search powers that is right now in our papers’ headlines, writes Michael Holland.....

DROOD DUDES IN MUSIC HALL MALARKEY
18 Apr 12 - WITH ITS somewhat highbrow theme of exploring Charles Dickens’ last and unfinished novel, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’, filled my theatre partner with, in her words, ‘small expectations’, writes Matt Baker... ..

MURDER MOST FOUL
11 Apr 12 - IN OSCAR-winning Brit-flick Shakespeare In Love, Southwark’s premiere playwright strikes up a conversation with a small boy torturing a mouse...

GATEWAY TO BALLET
11 Apr 12 - I JUMPED at the chance of a ballet review as this was no ordinary ballet - it was The English National Ballet first production for children, a joint venture between The English National Ballet and The English National Ballet School...

CONCERT THEATRE - SONATA MOVEMENTS
11 Apr 12 - EXEMPLIFYING THE possibilities of cross art form collaboration, ‘Concert Theatre’ combines classical music and theatre to create a new performance experience for the audience with enhanced opportunities to make meaning from what’s onstage. ..

RETURN TO THE INNOCENCE
11 Apr 12 - CGP?LONDON are proud to present the UK premiere of The End of Innocence by the celebrated British artist Mat Collishaw which will be projected on a monumental scale within the cavernous raw space of Dilston Grove...

A ROYAL CRISIS
04 Apr 12 - AS ME and Nina strode along the red carpet for the opening night of The King’s Speech, not one paparazzi bulb flashed! I thought that at least one of them would have mistaken us for Brad and Angelina...

DROOD DROPS INTO LANDOR
04 Apr 12 - IN THE 200th Anniversary year of Charles Dickens’ birth, Aria Entertainment in association with The Landor Theatre are pleased to present the London revival of Rupert Holmes’ Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood...