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What’s Hot Camden?
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights

Food, drink, theatre, music and more in Camden Town!                                                                                                                                                                                                             Camden is one of London’s larger boroughs, yet often casually identified as just Camden Town. Visit during July-August and you’ll see why it gets all the attention. Camden Town’s shopping and entertainment epicentre is buzzing during the summer months. On a typical day, Camden Lock […]

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Frieze Sculpture, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park
Frieze Sculpture & Art Fair
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

Frieze Week: Man in underpants found wandering around Regents Park!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       If you are visiting Regents Park to catch Frieze Sculpture 2023, it’s likely you’ll also catch sight of a half-naked man wandering around the sculpture site in a dazed state. Indeed, last week from afar it looked as if park security had finally cornered […]

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Drama & Theatre

  • Shakespeare Broadgate Circle
    Literary Greats Season At Broadgate Circle
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights

    EC2’s Broadgate Circle dining and leisure hub is getting in on the act, quite literally, as April celebrations of Britain’s greatest literary talents get underway. Its Literary Greats Season  honoured the birth dates of Charlotte Bronte (April 21) and William Shakespeare (April 23) through music, theatre and the spoken word. On April 23rd the London Contemporary […]

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    Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera)
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews

    If you are off to see Covent Garden’s new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor expecting to see something controversial or even scandalous, you will be disappointed. The reviews of the opening night mentioned the booing at the sex scenes, the blood and the use of a bath (for sex?). Instead, what you will encounter […]

  • Spellbound by The Dreamwatcher
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights

    In the run-in to the festive season if you were looking for a Christmas evening with a difference, with that unique cultural edge, I have to inform you that you’ve just missed it! British-Bulgarian storytelling performance company A Spell In Time performed The Dreamwatcher, Winter Tales of Hidden Bulgaria to a packed audience at the […]

  • The Force of Destiny by Verdi (Opera)
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Reviews

    Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas explore relationships between fathers and daughters. His The Force of Destiny, currently performed by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum, explores the collapse and end of a relationship between a father and his daughter. The controversial director Calixto Bieito has produced a thrilling staging that is well worth […]

  • Nightwatchers at the Tower of London
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights

    Stuck for something to do on Halloween night? Well if you’re seeking theatre with a difference, where the lines between performer and audience may be a bit ambiguous, digital theatre company ANAGRAM presents Nightwatchers an immersive theatre event you won’t be forgetting in a hurry. Based in the genuinely creepy prison environment of the Tower […]