Drama & Theatre

What’s Hot Battersea?
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Battersea, Battersea Park, Battersea Pier, Battersea Power Station, London Peace Pagoda, The Pump Gallery, Tunman Thai Restaurant
Westminster, Parliament & Politics
Posted in: Highlights Tags: Andy Burnham, Brexit, electorate, History, Keir Starmer, Labour party, London, Makerfield by-election, May local elections, Nigel Farage, Parliament, politics, Reform, UK Prime Minister, voting
Little Venice
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights Tags: Browning's Pool, Canal Cafe Theatre, Canals, IWA Canal Cavalcade, Little Venice, Lord Byron, Paddington Basin, Rembrandt Gardens, Robert Browning, Truman Capote, Waterside Cafe, West London
Bethnal Green
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Bethnal Green, cafe, Colombia Road Flower Market, E Pellicci, East End, East London, foodie, Gallery Cafe, Museums, Tower Hamlets, Victoria and Albert Museum, Young V&A
AI and Robotics
Posted in: Editorial, Highlights, Technology Tags: AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence, Elon Musk, employment, Generative AI, job loss, quantum computing, robotics, robots, the economy
London’s Music Venues
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Highlights Tags: business rates, Cart & Horses, dublin castle, fiddlers elbow, hope and anchor, Iron Maiden, live music, London music venues, London pubs, music venue association, night time industries association, Pubs, water rats pub
New Year, New You!
Posted in: Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Fortnum & Mason, Museums, New Year, Olympic Park Waterglades, Piccadilly, Restaurants, Tate Modern, V&A
Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows Tags: experimental film, film festival, filmmaking, independent film, indie film, short films, Sur-REEL& Uncanny Film Fest, Surrealism, The Uncanny

Freelancing in London? Here’s What You Need to Know

Posted in: Features, People

From pop-up galleries in Peckham to podcast studios in Hackney, freelancing in London offers endless creative opportunities, and just as many challenges. Whether you’re a graphic designer working from a café in Camden or a self-taught filmmaker balancing shoots and edits, life as a freelancer in the capital is full of movement, freedom, and unpredictability. […]

Gauguin in London
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, British Museum, Camille Pissaro, Courtauld Gallery, Kew Gardens, National Gallery, Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism, South Seas, Synthetism, Tahiti
London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places Tags: Barbican, Londinium, london history, London place names, River Fleet, Roman fort, Roman history, Roman London
Exploring London’s Thriving Combat Sports Scene: From Paintball to Historical Reenactments
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features
London’s Most Successful Football Clubs Revealed
Posted in: Features, Sports & Fitness

Adam & Eve…and Steve (Musical)
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews Tags: comedy, Musical, Theatre

It’s just as well in previous incarnations the Kings Head Theatre, the first pub theatre since Shakespeare’s day, was once used as a boxing ring because the near fisticuffs that follow when Adam is being fought over by Eve and his camp ‘best friend forever’ Steve, might have called for a return to the pugilistic […]
Bright Young Tings (Exhibition)
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: black theatre, Exhibition

This photographic exhibition at the National Theatre, South Bank covers the 1979-1982 period when the UK’s black theatre was seeking a distinct voice from the African-American productions that dominated in the decades preceding. The archive of 35mm black and white rehearsal photos are the work of Michael Mayhew whose account of the period and his […]
Playwright’s Speed Pitching
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Drama & Theatre, Events & Festivals, Highlights Tags: pitching, plays, Theatre

Budding playwrights who want to get their work out there will appreciate this pitching event with a difference. Hosted by the award-winning Coin Theatre Company, ten selected writers get their opportunity to pitch before an audience who get to vote on their winner. But wait – all of this takes place on a 20th-century Dutch […]
The History of Black Theatre in London
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Features Tags: black theatre, London

The recent launch of the National Theatre’s Bright Young Tings photography exhibition of black theatre in London 1979-1982 will, no doubt, encourage discussion about the roots of black theatre and the ground-breaking actors that emerged. Today, What’s Hot London? looks back on the emergence of African and Caribbean theatre in the capital from as early […]
The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre)
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews Tags: Etcetera Theatre, Oscar Wilde, play, play review, Stage, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Theatre, theatre review

This Oscar Wilde play was originally titled The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy For Serious People. Wilde added the extra as if concerned we might miss the point. And it’s heartening how the comedy elements have passed the test of time, perhaps because of ‘serious’ people forever finding new meaning in the once […]
Doctor Faustus (Theatre)
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews Tags: Doctor Faustus, Theatre

Most are familiar with Christopher Marlowe’s play and the seven deadly sins which haunt Doctor Faustus in this Elizabethan tragedy. Few may be aware that Faustus is described in the traditional Chorus as being from ‘base stock’ and later a physician and professor of divinity at Wittenberg University. Even then, his undeniable thirst for greater […]
Curtain Rd, Shoreditch: Where the UK’s Theatre History Began
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights, Photos, Places Tags: archaeology, Elizabethan theatre, excavation, Shakespeare

Curtain Road in Shoreditch has its place in British history as the location for Britain’s earliest theatres. In 1576 the first purpose-built modern playhouse was constructed on this road and given the succinct title of The Theatre. Nice name! It comes from the Latin term Theatrum used to describe a Roman playhouse and was the […]
Jan 9: 1st Modern Circus Staged in London
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights, People Tags: equestrian, Philip Astley, Royal Circus

On today’s date Jan 9th back in 1770 English circus owner Philip Astley (who himself was born on Jan 8th 1742) staged the first modern circus in London. This inventor and equestrian had a colourful life which included a stint in the cavalry during which he fought in the Seven Years War (1756-63) for which […]
London Theatres: Did You Know?
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights, Places

With the Christmas countdown in full effect it follows that panto season is in full swing. With the kids dragging you off to the theatre perhaps for their or even your first time here’s a few fascinating facts about London’s theatres. London’s oldest theatre First built in 1663 on Bridges Street, the Theatre Royal Drury […]
Lazarus (Musical)
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews

It’s almost a year since David Bowie made his final public appearance at the New York opening night of the Lazarus musical he co-wrote. Now playing through the autumn-winter season at the Kings Cross Theatre, Londoners have no excuse not to pay homage to one of rock’s greats in a production featuring many of his […]

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