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The Fitzroy Tavern, 16a Charlotte Street, London, W1T 2NA
Every Wednesday
Superb, Aussie-run comedy night in a nice central boozer that's now been running for 5 years. Master of ceremonies is Brian Damage, who keeps things moving along nicely and also books most of the acts. There's a definite antipodean slant, with loads of comics from down.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Rodigan's Reggae
Mass, St. Matthew's Church, London, SW2 1JF
Every Wednesday
David 'Ram Jam' Rodigan's legendary reggae nights have recently decamped from their spiritual Ladbroke Grove home and taken on a new lease of life in Brixton's Mass. After twenty five years of swaying, smoking and tough reggae riddims, this night regularly attracts b.... Events in London > Comedy The Comedy Store Players
The Comedy Store, 1a Oxenden Street, London, SW1Y 4EE
Every Sunday, Wednesday
Every Sunday and Wednesday at the Comedy Store is improvisation night. The store is the spiritual home of stand up in the UK, and draws big crowds every night The audience expects a high standard and the performers are unlikely to disappoint, featuring such establishe.... Events in London > Sporting Events London Skate
Hyde Park Bandstand, Near Serpentine, London, W1J 7JZ
Every Wednesday
Organised in association with Skatefresh, this free Wednesday night skate kicks off in Hyde Park and takes in all the major sights of London and the West End. It's very similar to the Friday Night Skate but run by a different bunch. The Friday Skate is a tad faster so .... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs The Weakerthans
Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL
Wednesday 2nd August 2006
Virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic, despite plodding progress into the mainstream, The Weakerthans still command a loyal, if petite, fanbase. Nevertheless, this is a band that inspires devotion and those unfamiliar will be impressed by the excitement of the.... Events in London > Theatre Charles Dickens - The Sparkler of Albion
Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2LF
Every Wednesday
Based on the life, letters and works of the self-proclaimed 'Sparkler of Albion', this weekly, one-man-show - performed in the basement of his former home - stars John Tallents as Charles John Huffam Dickens. The great writer takes his tiny audience - there are only a .... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Death Disco
Notting Hill Arts Club, 19 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Every Wednesday
Creation Records' Alan McGee and Danny Watson are joined by live bands for Notting Hill Arts Club's defiantly unfashionable punk night. Nothing clever, nothing trendy, nothing ironic: just great live music, and three decades of white-hot punk rock. Shows the electrocla.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing The London Particular
3Club, 333 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LE
Every Wednesday
Regular night of live music in this exciting Old Street venue. The bands are mostly local to this trendy part of London, so there's lots of art rock, electroclash, choppy guitars and strange genre-bending concepts on display. Thorough entertainment, and occasionally a .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Swerve The End, 18 West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ Every Wednesday Jazzy D & B, seamlessly mixed by Fabio and guests. Danceable, liquid funk fun for an up-for-it midweek crowd in the lounge of The End..... Events in London > Opera Beautiful Opera Masterpieces
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
Thursday 3rd August 2006
We love it when the Bolshoi come on tour (and not only because they have a Russian marketing team with a rather sweet habit of describing everything as 'beautiful' or 'very beautiful'). They have some singers of rare talent, and strike an excellent balance between perf.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Discotec
The End, 18 West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ
Every Thursday
Midweek gay/mixed club with world class music. There's a funky disco in the Lounge, while the main room keeps the House vibes pumping with resident DJs Alan Thompson, Femi B, Jeffrey Hinton, Luke Hope and guests. .... Events in London > Comedy N2O Comedy Festival
Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN
Tuesday 11th July 2006 - Thursday 3rd August 2006
This July the BAC will be packed full of performers playing for laughs, as they warm up for the Edinburgh Festival. This is a fabulously varied mix of upcoming stand-up, Edinburgh previews, theatrical comedy and some other more innovative ways to make you laugh. The BA.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing G - A - Y Music Factory Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL Every Thursday Attitude-free Hardbag and Handbag at Europe's largest gay and lesbian club. Cheap drinks and a glamorous international crowd make this a great start to the weekend. CLOSED 22 DECEMBER.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing G - A - Y Music Factory Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL Every Thursday Attitude-free Hardbag and Handbag at Europe's largest gay and lesbian club. Cheap drinks and a glamorous international crowd make this a great start to the weekend. CLOSED 22 DECEMBER.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Club NME
KOKO, 1a Camden High Street, London, NW1 7JH
Every Friday
Ten years ago, Friday nights at the Camden Palace were my favourite way to start the weekend. Affordable even for a skint 16-year-old, frenzied and very, very loud, it was one of the capital's nastiest rock nights. The venue has now re-opened as the rather classier KO.... Events in London > Film Rushes Soho Shorts
Vue West End and other venues around Soho, , London, WC2H 7AJ
Saturday 29th July 2006 - Friday 4th August 2006
Not only is Soho the centre of Britain's short film industry, its multitudinous assortment of cafes, bars and screening rooms makes an inspired choice of venue for this short film festival. Now in its eighth year, the festival was initially the preserve of industry in.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Camp Attack The Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL Every Friday 70s and 80s on the main dance floor, 90s in room two, but nothing except camp classics anywhere at Friday's G-A-Y night. CLOSED 23 DECEMBER.... Events in London > Sporting Events Friday Night Skate
Duke of Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London, W1J 7JZ
Every Friday
Every week (weather permitting) hundreds and sometimes thousands of skaters take to the streets for this marshalled run around London. There's a sound system blaring out dance music on the back of a bike and a friendly, party atmosphere. This is an exhilarating start t.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Popstarz
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL
Every Friday
Cool indie, electroclash, alternative dance, bootlegs and classic pop are the music policy at London's alternative gay night. With a friendly atmosphere, and an up-for-it, music-loving crowd, the Popstarz have been packing audiences in for eight years, moving to bigger.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing The Getdown
Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7EP
Every Friday
The Eclectic Breaks crew mix bouncy Old Skool stylings with the freshest new Hip-Hop, Reggae, Bashment and RnB. A proper UK Urban night, with a very switched-on crowd, especially considering the Central London location. It gets VERY crowded for a couple of hours around.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Sin City
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, London, NW1 8QP
Every Friday
A repulsive, sweaty mass of leather-clad tattoo freaks with the most hideous collection of piercings you can imagine, swinging their bodies around at full pelt, smacking into each other, their screams inaudible due to the ear-bleedingly loud Punk, Ska and Rock pounding.... Events in London > Family Events Traditional Colours of Turkey London International Gallery of Children's Art, O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road, London, NW3 6LU
Tuesday 6th June 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
This wonderful exhibition displays a whole raft of fascinating artwork by children from a school in Istanbul. It's a wonderful opportunity for youngsters in this country to catch a glimpse of the complexities of Turkey through the eyes of their young contemporaries. .... Events in London > Family Events The Wag and Bone Show
Windsor Great Park, Windsor, London, Berkshire
Saturday 5th August 2006
Dog shows are one of the scant opportunities for a day out for all the family: parents, kids and dogs included. It's a charity event, so it's all about raising money for the seven animal welfare charities that have made it possible. Wag and Bone breaks away from the .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Lottie Boat Party
Summer always brings a slew of boat parties to London, but this looks like the best of the public ones. You can't beat the good vibes you get at one of these events if they are properly run - it's important that the boat actually leaves the pier, for example, otherwise.... Events in London > Opera Opera Holland Park
Holland Park Theatre, Holland Park, London, W8 6LU
Tuesday 6th June 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
A truly remarkable opera company that has defied expectation and budgets to produce opera of the very highest standard. The Holland Park Theatre is at the heart of one of the most attractive public spaces in London, and the magical atmosphere of these productions owes .... Events in London > Theatre Hay Fever
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4HT
Thursday 6th April 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
When each member of the Bliss family independently invites a guest to their country house for the weekend, it sounds like a good idea. However, from the moment they pass over the threshold the guests - a diplomat, a shy flapper, a boxer and a fashionable sophisticate -.... Events in London > Dance Carlos Acosta's Tocororo: A Cuban Tale
The Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Wednesday 2nd August 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
Mixing the vibrant traditions of Cuban dance with the technical brilliance and intense physicality of modern ballet has made Carlos Acosta one of the biggest international stars of Dance. This rags-to-riches morality tale, based, very loosely, on Acosta's own life, is .... Events in London > Theatre The Seagull
National Theatre, Lyttleton, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 9PX
Saturday 17th June 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
Chekhov's first great play is a tale of failed ambition and failed love. Juliet Stevenson ('Truly, Madly, Deeply') plays the great actress Arkadina whose annual descent on her brother's provincial estate is both the highlight of their dull year, and a source of tragedy.... Events in London > Theatre A Voyage Round My Father
This is John 'Rumpole' Mortimer's affectionate portrait of his relationship with his overbearing father. The hard-working barrister depicted here - whose blindness could never be mentioned and whose love for his family was so carefully concealed behind his reserved and.... Events in London > Theatre The Overwhelming
National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 9PX
Tuesday 9th May 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
Seizing the opportunity to research a book, Jack Exley uproots his family from Illinois to Rwanda in early 1994. Alarmingly out of his depth, Jack begins a fervent search for his dear and missing friend while his wife and teenage son find trouble of their own. As Jack .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Fabric
Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 3HN
Every Saturday
London's best big club continues to attract the finest DJs from Britain and the rest of the world, and its dedicated and knowledgeable regulars are more than happy to accept high prices and crowded dancefloors for such heavenly House, Tech, and Electro..... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Music on a Summer Evening: Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Audley End House, Saffron Walden, Essex, London, CB11 4JF
Saturday 5th August 2006
This miraculous 17th century mansion, with its impeccably landscaped gardens and stunning lake, is one of the locations for English Heritage's summer picnic concert season. This concert sees Jools Holland's 14-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra play their popular swing an.... Events in London > Festivals Vibrations
Burgess Park, Albany Road, Camberwell, London, SE5 0RJ
Saturday 5th August 2006
Warm up for Notting Hill in a few weeks time (or make a weekend of it with Carnaval del Pueblo the next day) as Burgess Park is transformed into a rippling technicolour, singing, dancing celebration of black African and Caribbean culture. There are two main stages. Th.... Events in London > Film Time Out Park Nights
The Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
Friday 4th August 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
When Time Out put together a screen in the park, you know that their team of cineastes aren't going to do things by halves. What they're offering is a 50ft screen set up in the most secluded outdoor space in central London - the Serpentine gallery is a tree-filled 300 .... Events in London > Shop and Eat in Style The Great British Beer Festival
Earl's Court, Warwick Road, London, SW5 9TA
Tuesday 1st August 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
Whatever Londoners may or may not be, there's not a shadow of a doubt that we're beer drinkers. We love our historic old London pubs and we love drinking beer, be it London Pride or Stella Artois. It's as simple as that. Thus, when the Great British Beer Festival ro.... Events in London > Theatre Mark Salem - On Second Thoughts
Tricycle Theatre, 296 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR
Tuesday 18th July 2006 - Saturday 5th August 2006
"There is nothing supernatural in what I'm doing tonight" Mark Salem assures his audience at every show, but this never feels remotely true. Like his UK counterpart Derren Brown, Mark Salem is a mind-reader and manipulator. Unlike Brown there is little of the tradition.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Music on a Summer Evening: Classic FM Live featuring Russell Watson
Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath, London, NW37JR
Saturday 5th August 2006
Kenwood House is a magnificent stately home on the corner of Hampstead Heath, with its own lake and a captivating view of the park and the city beyond. The Music on a Summer Evening series has made use of some fabulous settings but this is certainly the finest. What be.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Life and Soul
Serious funky stuff for seriously funky people, at Soho's best nightclub. JP (Vinyl Junkies) and D-Muzik playing a broad selection of House, Boogie, Soul and Hip-Hop to a hard dancing, music-loving crowd. Residents on rotation include... Jeremy Newall (SalSoul Recor.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing SchoolDisco.com
Hammersmith Palais, 230 Shepherd's Bush Road, London, W6 7NL
Every Saturday
Less a club night, more a way of life... By 8 o'clock on a Saturday night, the nightspots of Hammersmith - a grim selection of alcopop bars and Wetherspoons - are swarming with pleated skirts and striped ties, pigtails and grey shorts. From the whole of London, from th.... Events in London > Comedy The Chuckle Club 3 Tuns Bar, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A1EJ
Every Saturday
At first glance, you might wonder how this venue has come to host one of the longest-running comedy nights in London, attracting the top names on the circuit every Saturday night for 19 years - then you go to the bar, and everything becomes clearer. With beer at studen.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Frog
5Charing Cross Road, , London, WC2H 0EL
Every Saturday
Live, loud, fun – three words just about sum up a Saturday night at Frog at the Meanfiddler on Charing Cross Road. There's nothing quite like a night of live music to set the pulse racing and Frog delivers week in week out. The expectation of the live acts (who grace .... Events in London > Comedy Hampstead Comedy Club
The Adelaide, 143 Adelaide Road, Primrose Hill, London, NW3 3NL
Every Saturday
This comedy club's not really in Hampstead anymore, but the new venue, the Adelaide, is a worthy successor - each Saturday it is transformed into a cave of comedy. The atmosphere is great, this is a liberal, easy crowd, and performers clearly enjoy coming here. Expect .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Infamous
Rouge, 144 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0LB
Every Saturday
This killer after-party is well worth knowing about, especially if you find yourself stranded in the West End and eager to party on a Friday night / Saturday morning. Just as all the smaller clubs and bars in Soho are finally locking their doors, this cavernous club is.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Infamous
Rouge, 144 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0LB
Every Saturday
This killer after-party is well worth knowing about, especially if you find yourself stranded in the West End and eager to party on a Friday night / Saturday morning. Just as all the smaller clubs and bars in Soho are finally locking their doors, this cavernous club is.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing More at Rouge
Rouge, 144 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0LB
Every Saturday
Rouge is a huge 4 room venue smack bang in the middle of Tottenham Court Road, which specialises in very smart private parties and sprawling club nights. MORE is their flagship Saturday night, and the best use the club has yet been put to. Rouge is a great space and ve.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing More at Rouge
Rouge, 144 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0LB
Every Saturday
Rouge is a huge 4 room venue smack bang in the middle of Tottenham Court Road, which specialises in very smart private parties and sprawling club nights. MORE is their flagship Saturday night, and the best use the club has yet been put to. Rouge is a great space and ve.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Groove Sanctuary
Serious funky stuff for seriously funky people, at Soho's best nightclub. JP (Vinyl Junkies) and D-Muzik playing a broad selection of nu-jazz, latin, breaks, and deep house to a hard dancing, music-loving crowd..... Events in London > Comedy Love Sensation
Babalou, The Crypt, St Matthews Church, London, SW2 1JF
Every Sunday
Special mention for a newish weekly at Babalou, the latest incarnation of the crypt underneath St Matthew's Church in Brixton. Formerly the Bug Bar, this subterranean venue has been a favourite with South London night owls for years. While it was sad to see the Bug Bar.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Roller Disco
Canvas, Kings Cross Freight Yard, London, N1 0UZ
Every Friday
Roller skates and late-night clubbing: it doesn't sound like a marriage made in heaven, but this is one of the hottest nights in the capital, impossible to get into after 10pm. Three rooms offer cheery seventies hits, funky house music and some pretty good Hip-Hop and.... Events in London > Comedy Red Rose Comedy
Red Rose, 129 Seven Sisters Road, London, N7 7QG
Every Saturday
Seven Sisters Road isn't one of the most inviting thoroughfares in North London, and on entering the Red Rose the visitor isn't particularly enthused either. Nevertheless, once you get past the rather dilapidated main pub area, through the back doors, into the hall, th.... Events in London > Gallery Art and Shows Michelob Triathlon Expo
ExCel Exhibition Centre, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Sunday 6th August 2006
Running in conjunction with the massive London Triathlon event, this will be an equally enormous exhibition for sports and fitness enthusiasts. Not only will there be the opportunity to clap eyes on the 10,000 odd athletes competeing in the triathlon you will also have.... Events in London > Sporting Events Rollerstroll
East Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, W1J 7JZ
Every Sunday
Every Sunday, meet on the east side of the Serpentine in Hyde Park for Rollerstroll, London's largest mass skating event. This big, very chilled skating event is open to anyone who can stop on a downhill... but if you've not mastered stopping, don't go. Friendly marsh.... Events in London > Sporting Events Michelob Ultra London Triathlon
ExCel Exhibition Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Sunday 6th August 2006
The triathlon is fast replacing the marathon as the event of choice for testing your body to the limit, and the London Triathlon is the world's largest event of its kind. Over 8000 people will participate in a punishing program of running, swimming and cycling, while 4.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Pssst!
Plan B, 418 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AY
Every Sunday
Pssst! is a quality new Sunday party at Plan B. Usually compeered by the Girls on Top crew, it features funky and soulful house and, of course, a reliably frazzled Brixton crew at the end of a long party weekend. Plan B has gone from being a slightly scuzzy drinking ba.... Events in London > Festivals Carnaval del Pueblo
Burgess Park, Albany Road, Camberwell, London, SE5 0RJ
Sunday 6th August 2006
London has been going Latino crazy this year with a host of events celebrating the rich cultures emanating from South America. There's been a bit of a bias towards Brazil, but it looks like the biggest event of the year will be playing to a broad audience, with perform.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing DC
Studio 33, 101 Tinworth Street, London, SE11 5EQ
Every Sunday
They've been doing this in the rest of Europe for years: from the raw hedonism of Ibiza's Space to Paris' hyper-trendy Batofar, Sunday mornings are considered the perfect time for a party. Whether you're staggering in for one last dance after a huge night out, or you j.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Uxfest
Islington Academy, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
Sunday 6th August 2006
This is a world apart from the rampant commercialisation which pervades Wireless and many of the other festivals in London this summer. Organised by volunteers, with all the money raised going to charity, metal fans will adore this one-day marathon of pounding drums, i.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing DTPM
Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 3HN
Every Sunday
This painfully chic gay night has been running for 12 years now, half of them at Farringdon's palatial Fabric club. Expect beautiful people and laughably cutting-edge fashions, but also superb, bass-heavy house music. There are also regular guest appearances from some .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Grace
Herbal, 10/14 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DA
Every Sunday
You could hear the sigh of relief from jungle nutters everywhere when Grooverider's Sunday night residency returned. This is a massive way to wrap up a big weekend, with Herbal's outsize sound-system catching every ounce of bass that the 'Rider' can muster. .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Superfreq
The End, West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ
Every Sunday
End Club owner and former Shamen front man Mr C built this place to have fun, and that's what he'll be doing every Sunday behind the decks in the club's AKA bar. Acid, electro and minimal house for those with no jobs to go to. DJs: Mr C, Dollz at Play and special surp.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Jaded
Egg, 200 York Way, London, N7 9AP
Every Sunday
London's most decadent clubbers gravitate to Jaded every Sunday at Egg. It's a superb venue for an after-hours party, with plenty of outdoor areas for shattered nerves and bodies, and three pounding sound systems for those who've still got a bit of fighting spirit in t.... Events in London > Festivals Fruitstock
Gloucester Green, North-East corner of Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Sunday 6th August 2006
Fruitstock is the nice-cup-of-tea-and-a-biscuit of festivals, so relaxing that you can't help but enjoy it. The volume on the speakers never goes above 'pleasant', the bands are laidback - witty and funky - and everything's so cheap that even your wallet will be grinni.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Trash
The End, 18 West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ
Every Monday
The Trash gang continue to bring the most exciting music they can get their hands on, taking in Glam Rock, Soul, Indie, Punk, 80s Electronica, Pop, Disco and just about anything else that fits. The second room is focused on underground alternative music and new bands..... Events in London > Comedy Comedy at Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, London, E15 1BN
Every Monday
Free comedy night at this Stratford institution... with a consistently high standard of comic, ranging from transvestite ex-boxers to Iranian Irish wide boys. It's a lovely, local venue with a friendly crowd, and unusually for a theatre venue they serve huge plates of .... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs The Fratellis
4Camden High Street, , London, NW1 8QP
Monday 7th August 2006
Upbeat, scuzzy guitar, tuneful shouty vocals, infectious sing-a-long tunes - yes, it's The Fratellis, back for another stab at the capital. This energetic trio from Glasgow have been making waves this year since the release of their debut eponymous EP back at the start.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Popcorn Heaven, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG Every Monday Five clubs in one venue, with everything from the campest cheese to the trendiest house, this is London's biggest and busiest gay Monday. Great for anyone who loves a four-day weekend..... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Lunchtime Concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JJ
Every Monday, Tuesday, Friday
London truly is the best place in the world to live and work. Every Monday, Tuesday and Friday for the past fifty years, this Trafalgar Square church has opened its doors at five past one, for 45 minutes of superb classical music, completely free. Performed by a mixt.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Lunchtime Concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JJ
Every Monday, Tuesday, Friday
London truly is the best place in the world to live and work. Every Monday, Tuesday and Friday for the past fifty years, this Trafalgar Square church has opened its doors at five past one, for 45 minutes of superb classical music, completely free. Performed by a mixt.... Events in London > Comedy The Cutting Edge
The Comedy Store, 1a Oxenden Street, London, SW1Y 4EE
Every Tuesday
There is nothing quite like a great night of comedy and, if you've never tried it before, you'll find it hard to better the Cutting Edge at the Comedy Store on a Tuesday. The principle is simple: a gang of comedians get up on stage and try and make jokes about recent e.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing SpitKingdom
Herbal, 10/14 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DA
Every Tuesday
There's nothing quite like seeing the Mixologist's multi-deck magic up close and personal. Their Tuesday night residency with DJ Skeletrik and human Beatbox Killa Kela in Shoreditch's Herbal is ideal for anyone who likes to see half a dozen turntables stretched to the .... Events in London > Opera Prom 34 - Dame Felicity Lott
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Tuesday 8th August 2006
Dame Felicity Lott recently celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of her first appearance at the Royal Opera House, and though she seldom takes on those huge soprano roles, the sensitivity and subtlety she brings to French and German songs has only increased. This is th.... Events in London > Theatre The Life of Galileo
National Theatre, Olivier, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 9PX
Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Wednesday 9th August 2006
Berthold Brecht's treatment of the life of Galileo was written in Nazi Germany as Europe trembled on the brink of World War II. It sees the savage forces of unreason challenge the conscience of an individual and is one of the great testaments to the power of the indivi.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Naughty by Nature
Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, London, NW1 7PG
Wednesday 9th August 2006
Worldly-wise hip hop collective Naughty by Nature take the stage of the Jazz Cafe this August for what promises to be a showcase of neat rhymes, funky beats and loud personalities. This trio burst onto the scene in 1991, instantly enjoying huge popular success thanks t.... Events in London > Family Events Performing Art Workshops
Lyric Hammersmith, King Street, London, W6 0QL
Monday 7th August 2006 - Friday 11th August 2006
This summer the Lyric theatre has worked tirelessly to put together a really exciting series of performing art workshops designed for younger kiddies. They have been careful to select a broad range so as to ensure that there is something for everyone whatever their in.... Events in London > Family Events Picture This
National Portrait Gallery, 2 St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
Monday 31st July 2006 - Friday 11th August 2006
Somewhat of a national institution, the National Portrait Gallery has come up with a wonderfully eclectic collection of workshops to entertain the capital's youngsters for two weeks this summer. Not are only are they fun, creative and educational but they're also fre.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Bang Face: Escape from Alcatraz
Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ
Friday 11th August 2006
This month Bang Face goes gangster, with their best ever line-up playing to an audience of sharply dressed guys and dolls. Bang Face is a phenomenon - full of costumed weirdos, in a shabby venue, with a music volume alternating between ear bleeding and merely crushing .... Events in London > Theatre Under the Black Flag
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Sunday 9th July 2006 - Saturday 12th August 2006
I watched 'The Tempest' at the Globe on a blustery autumn day a couple of years ago, and the stage of this unique theatre made for rather a convincing ship, in spite of the lack of special effects. This bodes well for brand new pirate swashbuckler 'Under the Black Flag.... Events in London > Theatre Exiles
National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 9PX
Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Saturday 12th August 2006
James Joyce's only play is a portrait of a very modern marriage between an apparently unfeeling husband, obsessed only with his writing, and an openly unfaithful wife, hoping to disturb his dispassionate calm. There is a lot of Ibsen in this portrait of a family whose.... Events in London > Sporting Events Middlesex Charity Sevens
Twickenham, Rugby Way, London, TW1 1BZ
Saturday 12th August 2006
The most popular, the largest and longest-running sevens tournament in the world, this annual event is a showcase for everything that's good about rugby. With just seven players on either team, the game relies on explosive pace and free-flowing passing moves - it's jus.... Events in London > Theatre The Human Voice / The Sound of Silence
Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Saturday 12th August 2006
Upcoming director Eduardo Barreto will use this double bill by French polymath Jean Cocteau to showcase his grasp of the dramatic monologue. What these plays lack in interaction and dynamism, they make up for in tension and with Cocteau's adroit, tightly written lines..... Events in London > Theatre Blonde Bombshells of 1943
Inspired by writer Alan Plater's Bafta-winning TV drama, the Last of the Blonde Bombshells, which starred Judy Dench, this stage play takes the retired retrospective of the television programme and puts the eponymous swing band back in the middle of World War II. The .... Events in London > Theatre Whistle Down the Wind
Wednesday 15th March 2006 - Saturday 12th August 2006
Three siblings - Swallow, Bluejay and Robin - are approaching their first Christmas since the death of their beloved mother, when they discover a mysterious man hiding in the barn. When they enquire as to his identity, the first words he utters are 'Jesus Christ'. The .... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Total Mayhem presents The Timelords
Fire, 34-41 Parry Street, London, W8 1RT
Saturday 12th August 2006
Hard House lovers only need apply for this faintly ridiculous but thoroughly uplifting Hard House revival, featuring the biggest names of yesteryear and some of the new hopes in hard dance. Look out for Cally Gage - a beautiful and talented young lady who is spearheadi....
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Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Saturday 12th August 2006
This will be a full performance of Stravinsky's folk-tale ballet, rather than the suite you more normally hear in concert performances. With Ilan Volkov conducting you should expect a performance that crackles with energy. The concert opens with Sibelius' 'En Saga', a .... Events in London > Opera Prom 39 - Janine Jansen
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Saturday 12th August 2006
The Proms has always been the youngest major classical music festival in the world - if only because the rigours of promming call for a fairly able-bodied audience - and these concerts by the European Union Youth Orchestra always have a very special atmosphere, with th.... Events in London > Festivals Svengali Fest
Windsor Home Park, Datchet Road, London, SL41AA
Saturday 12th August 2006
Windsor racecourse swings its gates wide open for a day of peace, love and late 80s music. It's time to dust of the dreadlocks and tie-dye and send the kids to Grandma's. Purveyors of country and western acid house, Alabama 3, have left their Brixton enclave to ride t.... Events in London > Family Events Little Red....You Know Who!
The Little Angel Theatre, 14, Dagmar Passage, London, N1 2DN
Wednesday 9th August 2006 - Sunday 13th August 2006
This remake of a well-known traditional story, 'Red Riding Hood' is set to be absolutely spell-binding for little children. Kiddies can follow the famous red-caped girl as she makes her way to visit her granny. The story will take your little ones on a bewitching journ.... Events in London > Shop and Eat in Style Thai Food Festival
Battersea Park, , London, SW11 3HE
Sunday 13th August 2006
The annual Thai Food Festival is once again set to be a throughly enjoyable, effervescent and, above all, tasty day of Eastern culture, popular with Londoners for over a decade. Attracting over 20,000 visitors, Battersea Park will be transformed into a beautiful Thai.... Events in London > Festivals London Mela
Gunnersbury Park, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NE
Sunday 13th August 2006
One of the biggest celebrations of Asian music and culture outside the Indian subcontinent, last year's London Mela attracted 55,000 visitors, and this looks to be even bigger. Like so many of London's festivals (the Notting Hill Carnival, the Brick Lane Festival, Resp.... Events in London > Theatre Coriolanus
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Monday 1st May 2006 - Sunday 13th August 2006
Returning from a victorious campaign in which he has personally defeated the leaders of Rome's enemies, the Volscians, general Caius Martius Coriolanus is initially feted as a hero. However, his jealous political rivals expose Coriolanus' contempt for the common people.... Events in London > Festivals Ealing Summer
Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, London, W5 5BQ
Friday 14th July 2006 - Sunday 13th August 2006
Nobody seems to know why, but over the years the summer fair in this sleepy corner of west London has developed into a superb, month-long programme. The festival opens with a week of comedy in Walpole Park's giant big top. The relaxed atmosphere and informal surroundi.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Jazz Cafe Picnic
Marble Hill House, Twickenham, London, TW12NL
Sunday 13th August 2006
A superb Sunday set in the grounds of this beautiful Twickenham park, the lawns of Marble Hill House are enjoying a good trampling this summer with the Jazz Cafe Picnic in addition to the English Heritage concerts. Expect a really laid-back vibe, with picnic rugs scatt.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Prom 40 - Maxim Vengerov
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Sunday 13th August 2006
Maxim Vengerov's mixture of virtuosity and amiable showmanship has made him a popular figure at the Proms. He returns to combine playing and conducting - as violin soloists did in Mozart's Vienna - in one of the few single-composer concerts in this year's festival. He .... Events in London > Dance Bolshoi Ballet
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8HD
Monday 31st July 2006 - Tuesday 15th August 2006
The Bolshoi are the most famous dance company in the world. Since the end of the Cold War, their tours have become a yearly high-point for anyone who loves to see traditional ballet performed by virtuoso dancers. This year, as always, they will be performing the impec.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Madonna
Wembley Conference Centre, Empire Way, London, HA9 0WS
Tuesday 1st August 2006 - Wednesday 16th August 2006
Pop pick of the summer surely has to be this series of eight concerts at the newly refurbished Wembley Arena. Since her latest album 'Confessions on the Dancefloor' beat all expectations and silenced the critics, Madonna has returned to her pedestal, as the original po.... Events in London > Family Events Draws, Paws and Claws
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 5HZ
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Thursday 17th August 2006
One of a string of events taking place in conjunction with the wonderful Animal's War exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, this creative gem promises to be a rewarding distraction for inexhaustible kiddies on their summer holidays. It's not just mankind that is burd.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Max Sedgley
Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, London, NW1 7PG
Thursday 17th August 2006
A real clubber's night at the Jazz Cafe as Max Sedgley, producer of the summer's most infectious hit 'Happy', rolls up in Camden with his live band The Shoots. There'll be a capacity crowd at this well loved venue to hear what Max is like live - and some of them may ge.... Events in London > Family Events Play in a Week
Lyric Hammersmith, King Street, London, W6 0QL
Monday 14th August 2006 - Friday 18th August 2006
The Lyric Hammersmith can only be applauded for its wonderful, inclusive approach to youth involvement in the theatre. It's very refreshing to see a respected theatre invest so much support, time and money into young people. This summer they have come up with a wond.... Events in London > Film The Summer Screen
Somerset House, The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
Thursday 10th August 2006 - Saturday 19th August 2006
The courtyard of Somerset House is one of the finest evening spots in London, enclosed by a towering 18th century building and offering a great square of sky above. Using it for a cinema is an excellent idea, and they've chosen the films far better than last year, when.... Events in London > Comedy Premiership: Arsenal vs Aston Villa
Arsenal Emirates Stadium, Ashburton Grove, London, N7 7AF
Saturday 19th August 2006
Raising the curtain on the new Arsenal Emirates Stadium and the 2006/7 Premiership season, this match against Brummie underachievers Aston Villa will take advantage of every seat in the house. If you haven't had enough of football with the World Cup, this will be a gre.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Renaissance
The Cross, Arches 27-31 York Way, London, N1 0DB
Saturday 19th August 2006
All hail Nic Fancuilli, the loveable Italian house music maestro who so enjoys playing to the sweaty masses in the Cross that he has chosen to launch his new album at Renaissance, a stalwart of UK clubbing for over 10 years. The Cross is a wonderful, basic club, with e.... Events in London > Family Events Metamorphoses
See Above, , London,
Friday 14th July 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
London Bubble's hugely accomplished and entertaining park theatre returns for another summer of mystery and enchantment. Their productions take place in parks across London, where the audience - supplied with folding chairs - follow the cast around as the sun goes down.... Events in London > Festivals V2006
Hylands Park, Chelmsford, London, CM28WQ
Saturday 19th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
While other festivals specialise in certain types of music, or in creating a great atmosphere, the V Festival exists for only one purpose - getting as many of the biggest names in music together as possible. There's little musical focus, with pop, rock and urban groups.... Events in London > Dance Brasil Brasileiro
Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
The World Cup always brings out a string of Brazil-related events, but this dance spectacular at Sadler's Wells looks like being both the most authentic and the most exciting. Argentinian director Carlos Segovia charts the development of samba from its origins as a r.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, W1J 0BD
Monday 12th June 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
First held in 1768, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the largest regular contemporary art exhibition in the world. Anybody can submit work to the selection panel which chooses work by painters, sculptors and printmakers to go on show in the massive Burlington Hou.... Events in London > Family Events Pure Iceland
The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD
Saturday 21st January 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
The explosive, glacial diversity of Iceland has always captured the awe and wonder of curious kiddies and for good reason - there's a lot to learn from the icy plains of this country. This ingenious new exhibition is yet another fine example of the Science Museum's fi.... Events in London > Gallery Art and Shows The Friendship Festival
ExCel Exhibition Centre, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL
Friday 18th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
Celebrating the bonds between British Asians from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, this exciting festival has been inspired by the colourful contrasts of these countries cultural and social beliefs. Happening over three days, with over 300 stands each .... Events in London > Gallery Art and Shows Grand Carnival Costume Splash
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, London, N22 7AY
Saturday 19th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
There are five 'disciplines' that create the Notting Hill Carnival, and the most exciting of all is Mas, or masquerade. London's Carribean communities will have been sewing on sequins and spraying glitter for months now in preparation for the Splash costume competition.... Events in London > Family Events Thomas and Friends 2006
Wembley Arena, Empire Way, London, HA9 0WS
Saturday 19th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
It's hard to know what the Reverend Awdry would have made of this stadium spectacular, based on the talking train stories he first created to help his son through a stay in hospital. What's certain, however, is that the kids love seeing Henry, Percy, Thomas and the res.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs On the Edge
Richmond Riverside, , London, TW9 1TH
Saturday 19th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
Edgy is not a word you readily associate with Richmond-upon-Thames, and here the edge we're talking about is merely the bank of old Father Thames. On the Edge is just what you'd expect from a free music festival set in one of Greater London's most charming waterside sc.... Events in London > Opera Prom 49 - Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Sunday 20th August 2006
Valery Gergiev's Mariinsky Theatre - formerly the Kirov Opera - have just performed 'Katerina Izmaylova' at the ENO, the version of 'Lady Macbeth' that Shostakovich revised to fit in with Stalin's delicate sensibilities. This Prom offers an opportinity to see the origi.... Events in London > Festivals Shoreditch Festival
Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High Street, London, E16JH
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
For two weeks in August, the parks, gardens, streets, historical buildings and many weird and wonderful venues of London's trendiest corner will be opening up to a bewildering variety of art and performance. The opening costume parade on August 5th is followed by 'Pas.... Events in London > Festivals Trafalgar Square Arts Festival
Trafalgar Square, London, London, WC2N 4JJ
Thursday 3rd August 2006 - Sunday 20th August 2006
For the fourth year running, August sees Trafalgar Square filled by a program of music, theatre, dance and art - a further reminder of the endless possibilities offered by this beautiful space at the heart of our capital. Events take place at regular times from Thursd.... Events in London > Sporting Events England vs Pakistan, 4th Test
The Brit Oval, Kennington, London, SE11 5SS
Thursday 17th August 2006 - Monday 21st August 2006
The Oval is so inescapably lovely that even the most rabid cricket-haters, the ones who think there's something wrong with a sport that regularly goes on for five days without producing a result, become instant converts to this most English of games, as soon as they pa.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Morbid Angel
Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL
Tuesday 22nd August 2006
Morbid Angel are primed to take the fiendish fans at the Mean Fiddler firmly by their satanic horns. These founding fathers of Death Metal are addicted to touring, and with all that experience under their belts, really know how to work a crowd of black and leather-clad.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Rolling Stones
Twickenham, Rugby Way, London, TW1 1BZ
Sunday 20th August 2006 - Tuesday 22nd August 2006
The grand-daddies of rock 'n' roll, the Rolling Stones head to Twickenham for a pair of summer concerts. Part of the tour promoting 2005's much lauded album 'A Bigger Bang', this gig promises a celebration of the band's 44 years in the music business. Some say the Sto.... Events in London > Film Portobello Film Festival Venues around Portobello Road, including Westbourne Studios, Inn On The Green, Paradise By, London, W11 1AA
Thursday 3rd August 2006 - Tuesday 22nd August 2006
The world's biggest free film festival regularly brings a stunningly diverse array of films to an array of indoor and outdoor venues across West London including the Cobden Club and Westbourne Studios. Conceived in 1996 as a reaction to the dire state of the British fi.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Eagles of Death Metal
University of London Union, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
Wednesday 23rd August 2006
On our green shores they haven't quite achieved the success of current super-group du jour The Raconteurs, but across the Atlantic there's quite a buzz about them. The group's fluid line-up consists of former deus man Tim Vanhamel, Queens of the Stone Age front-man Jos.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Regina Spektor
Shepherd's Bush Green, , London, W12 8TT
Wednesday 23rd August 2006
It's not often a really quite original, quirky singer-songwriter comes along, but Regina Spektor is just that. Her name might make her sound like a butch villainess from a Bond film, but actually she's a kooky, svelte figure with flowing burgundy curls and thoughtful, .... Events in London > Film Superman Returns
BFI London IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, London, SE1 8XR
Friday 14th July 2006 - Thursday 24th August 2006
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's the first live-action Hollywood film to contain scenes in 3D. Not only is Superman set to be one of the blockbusters of the summer, IMAX aficionados will be treated to 20 minutes of visuals that literally pop out of the screen. S.... Events in London > Film Anime
National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Friday 11th August 2006 - Thursday 24th August 2006
Following on from last August's history of Japanese animation, this year, the NFT are offering a round up of contemporary anime. This unique Japanese art form has spread across the world in the last couple of years, and this season offers some of the biggest recent hit.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Reel Big Fish
Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL
Friday 25th August 2006
August will see ska punkers Reel Big Fish take to the cramped stage of the Mean Fiddler, apparently in a warm-up for their performances at the Reading and Leeds festivals. Not that they'll need much of one, given that they are playing on the equally low-key Radio 1 sta.... Events in London > Family Events Somerset House Summer Family Workshops
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R ORN
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Saturday 26th August 2006
Once again Somerset House will be flooding the summer holidays with a raft of fun workshops. Endlessly creative, they really are a gift to frazzled parents. Not only are they free but no booking is necessary. The workshops will be running on four days throughout Augu.... Events in London > Family Events Myths and Legends
Livesey Musuem, 682, Old Kent Road, London, SE15 1JF
Tuesday 8th November 2005 - Saturday 26th August 2006
A legendary hands-on exhibition launches at one of London's most popular children's museums. Kiddies can disappear into the fantastical world of mythical Minotaurs and fire-breathing dragons, all within the modest quarters of this delightful museum in Peckham. Strict.... Events in London > Family Events Babe the Sheep Pig
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NR
Tuesday 1st August 2006 - Saturday 26th August 2006
This is a truly magical venue to take the kids to. On a balmy English summer's day, the overhanging, candle-lit trees make Regent's Park Open Air Theatre one of the most delightful summer spots in the city. It's not just about the venue, though - this particular play.... Events in London > Theatre Macbeth in the Great Hall
Friday 4th August 2006 - Saturday 26th August 2006
The Oxford Shakespeare Company usually performs out of doors, in sites in Oxford and London specially chosen to fit in with each play. For this 400th anniversary production of Macbeth - the first play Shakespeare wrote to be performed in a proper theatre, rather than b.... Events in London > Sporting Events C & G Trophy Final
Lord's, St John's Wood, London, NW8 8QN
Saturday 26th August 2006
The decision to eliminate the knock-out element from this year's C & G Trophy was a strange one. It took a bit of the excitement out of proceedings and certainly hasn't helped the fairytale, giant-slaying tales. This was the very first, top-level, one-day knock-out tou.... Events in London > Festivals South West Four
Clapham Common, , London, SW4 0AA
Saturday 26th August 2006
Clapham Common will be a-buzz with party-seekers over the August Bank Holiday weekend, with South West Four starting the party, before it's finished off by Get Loaded in the Park the following day. You might say that this is a warm-up for Get Loaded, but with such a da.... Events in London > Theatre Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's forceful heroine has remained one of this country's favourite romantic characters for nearly two centuries. Her reserved, intense courtship with the taciturn Mr Rochester and the revelation of his great secret have been adapted innumerable times for .... Events in London > Sporting Events Powergen Challenge Cup Final
Twickenham, Rugby Way, London, TW1 1BZ
Saturday 26th August 2006
The showcase of the Rugby League calendar, the Challenge Cup Final is the culmination of eight months of fierce competition between sides from all over England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia. Just like in the FA Cup, there's opportunity here for giant-killing. N.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Stealth Carnival Special
Turnmills, 63B Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5NP
Saturday 26th August 2006
Warm up for Carnival in style at Stealth's annual pre-party, the only chance to see Grooverider and Fabio over the weekend as those boys will be relaxing in Ladbroke Grove. The night features an impressive array of live talent in Room 1, and some great Hip Hop DJS in R.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Music on a Summer Evening: Last Night of the Kenwood Proms
Kenwood House, , London, NW37JR
Sunday 27th August 2006
Kenwood House is a magnificent stately home on the corner of Hampstead Heath, with its own lake and a captivating view of the park and the city beyond. The Music on a Summer Evening series has made use of some fabulous settings but this is certainly the finest. What be.... Events in London > Theatre Thriller - the Musical
Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7RQ
Sunday 27th August 2006
During Michael Jackson's trial, American satirical newspaper 'The Onion' ran a story headlined 'Neverland Ranch Investigators Discover Corpse of Real Michael Jackson'. Apparently Jackson died in 1987, shortly before releasing 'Bad'... "We are not certain, at this ti.... Events in London > Festivals Get Loaded in the Park
Clapham Common, , London, SW4 0AA
Sunday 27th August 2006
Putting your festival in direct competition with Notting Hill Carnival, Britain's biggest street party, is a bold move by anyone's standards but this mini-festival has proved a great success over the last couple of years, filling Clapham Common with seas of revellers. .... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Last Night of the Marble Hill Proms
Marble Hill House, Twickenham, London, TW12NL
Sunday 27th August 2006
As well as the concerts at Kenwood, this August English Heritage are organising a shorter series of concerts at Marble Hill House in Twickenham, a little more convenient for Londoners living south of the river. Marble Hill is the last vestige of the stately homes whi.... Events in London > Festivals TDK Cross Central Festival
Saturday 26th August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
Can't face the crowds at the Notting Hill Carnival? Can't stand the rampant commercialism that's overtaken Leeds and Reading? The Cross Central Festival is the August Bank Holiday alternative, and last year it was a blast. The biggest names may be off performing at the.... Events in London > Festivals River Cultures Festival
West India Quay, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4AL
Saturday 26th August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
Urban beaches might be a bit passé, but that doesn't make them any less fun. Over the last weekend in August the River Cultures Festival will transform dowdy West India Quay into Funquay! This means a floating pontoon piled high with 30 tonnes of sand ready for us to l.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Reading Festival Little John's Farm, Richfield Avenue, Caversham, Reading, London, RG1 8EQ
Friday 25th August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
Britain's longest running festival is like a fine begonia - it just keeps coming back stronger every year. Attracting 50,000 revellers each day over the August Bank Holiday weekend, this festival offers a line-up of the finest guitar bands in the world. It's nice to se.... Events in London > Film London International Animation Festival
Tuesday 22nd August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
Hot on the heels of the onedotzero digital film-making festival comes a second year for this gleeful celebration of the animator's art. Over 1500 submissions have been whittled down to seven programs that take in animation from 25 different countries. Every style you c.... Events in London > Sporting Events World Rowing Championship 2006
Dorney Lake, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire, London, SL4 6QP
Sunday 20th August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
The first, full, World Championship in Britain for 20 years will be taking place over what promises to be a gorgeous sunny week in late August. Over 1000 rowers from round the globe will descend on the enormous 2km-long lake at Eton - also a venue for the 2012 Olympics.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs Marble Hill House Concerts
Marble Hill House, Richmond Road, London, TW1 2NL
Saturday 12th August 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
As well as the concerts at Kenwood, this August English Heritage are organising a shorter series of concerts at Marble Hill House in Twickenham, a little more convenient for Londoners living south of the river. Marble Hill is the last vestige of the stately homes whi.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional Kenwood House Concerts
Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath, London, NW37JR
Saturday 24th June 2006 - Sunday 27th August 2006
Kenwood House is a magnificent stately home on the corner of Hampstead Heath, with its own lake and a captivating view of the park and the city beyond. The Music on a Summer Evening series has made use of some fabulous settings but this is certainly the finest. What be.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Lost
The Bridge, Weston Street, London, SE1 3QZ
Sunday 27th August 2006
What a shame - the best Lost ever, clashing with Carnival. We really might have to do an all-nighter this Bank Holiday because the chance to see Jeff Mills AND Laurent Garnier tearing it up at London Bridge is an opportunity we don't want to miss. Unless it becomes a r.... Events in London > Music: Clubbing Superfreq Bank Holiday Special
The End, West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ
Every
Superfreq gets that little bit freakier as thousands of revellers pack The End following carnival to listen to some techno and get all that ragga out of their system. Tief Schwarz + Anja Schneider + Kevin Griffiths + Bobby M + Mr C + Dollz At Play + Mistress Barbara +.... Events in London > Gallery Art and Shows Caribbean Showcase
Hyde Park, Parade, Ground, Marble Arch, London, W2 3JA
Monday 28th August 2006
This time of year you can't help but notice that Notting Hill Carnival must be round the corner. The city simply gets swamped by a flurry of carnival-related events. It's a fantastic time of year. If the weather holds, we Londoners really do get to sample a slice of .... Events in London > Family Events Billy Goats Gruff
The Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, London, N1 2DN
Thursday 24th August 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
This is the famous story of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff'. It's a very simple, approachable plot for small children. Telling the tale of three hungry goats and a grumpy old troll, it's a fun first theatrical experience for very young tots. With a riotous goat dance and.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
The tortured genius - staying true to a vision in the face of poverty, the conservative establishment and an indifferent, philistine public - is a cliche that still survives today, especially in our treatment of rock musicians. This summer's exhibition at the National .... Events in London > Family Events A Country Affair - Hampton Court Palace Hampton Court Palace Green, Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, London, KT8 9AU
Saturday 26th August 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
For a taste of the sweet simplicity of rural life this wonderful fair is a lovely outing for families during the summer holidays. It's back this year by popular demand. Essentially an exciting three-day rural fair on a significantly larger scale than you would find .... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Constable: the Great Landscapes
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Thursday 1st June 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
John Constable was never fully appreciated in England during his lifetime. His local subjects and imaginative treatment of light were frowned upon by the establishment, and he failed to find a buyer for a painting now regarded as the greatest English landscape ever cre.... Events in London > Festivals Notting Hill Carnival
Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, and Westbourne Grove, London, W10 5QZ
Sunday 27th August 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
Every year over a million people flock to the streets of Notting Hill to gaze at the floats, shake their battys to massive sound-systems and soak up the true flavours of the West Indies. Carnival has been held over the same weekend every year since 1966. Originally a l.... Events in London > Family Events Steelband's Panorama Championship
Horniman's Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, London, W10 5BN
Saturday 26th August 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
Reggae, soca, dancehall, dub and a dozen other English and Caribbean music genres are the beats to which Notting Hill dances each year, but if there is one sound that is as much a part of Carnival as the smell of jerk chicken, or the taste of Red Stripe, it is the thru.... Events in London > Film The Zone Horror Frightfest
Thursday 24th August 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
Ever felt the need to hide behind the sofa when an evening with Doctor Who got too scary? Then you should avoid the Sunday of this festival, when the plot descriptions alone left us feeling queasy (notably redneck-horror 'Broken', which opens with a girl clawing her wa.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Che Guevara - Revolutionary and Icon
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Wednesday 7th June 2006 - Monday 28th August 2006
The curator of this exhibition, Trisha Ziff, invited terrorist-turned-peacemaker Gerry Adams to the opening party, but the V & A flatly refused to let this notorious figure come to their fashionable event. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - by all accounts a man with a fine sense.... Events in London > Music: Live Music and Gigs The Vines
The Forum, 9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY
Tuesday 29th August 2006
Down under - where a mullet can be worn without the slightest hint of irony and style barely extends beyond a checked shirt and a souped up ute - they might be accused of being a bit behind the times. The Vines are much the same - they only got going in 2002 but are pl.... Events in London > Dance Dance Weekend
National Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Friday 25th August 2006 - Tuesday 29th August 2006
A highlight of the National Theatre's summer program of outdoor performances, this weekend brings dancers and musicians from all over the world to perform, educate and amaze. It opens with two thoroughly British institutions, a Tea Dance and a Ceilidh, before the more.... Events in London > Gallery Art and Shows Serpentine Solarshuttle
Hyde Park, The Boat House, Serpentine Road, London, W2 2UH
Tuesday 18th July 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
This August folk can glide noiselessly across the Serpentine in Hyde Park aboard an entirely solar-powered shuttle boat. This amazing creation follows in the wake of a twin project in Hamburg. Assuming a very functional role in ferrying passengers across the city's h.... Events in London > Family Events Fuerzabruta
The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
Saturday 1st July 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
The Argentinian performance group gave the former Roundhouse one of its biggest hits back in the day. Now they are back, kicking off a new era of Roundhouse madness in the handsomely refurbished building. The show is a stunning mix of physical bravura and technical s.... Events in London > Family Events Summer Holiday Activity Day - Canal Museum
London Canal Museum, 12-13 New Wharf Road, London, N1 9RT
Tuesday 1st August 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
This small expose of life on Britain's canals is perfect for youngsters of all ages. There is a real narrowboat for them to explore, complete with recorded domestic dialogue. There is also a wonderful little children's corner with canal-themed books and lots of pictu.... Events in London > Family Events Art Trolley
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Tuesday 1st August 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
This family activity centre at the Tate Britain makes gallery visits a pleasure for your children, rather than an opportunity for a really public sulk. Kids enjoy the Tate Britain anyway - some of the wackier installations give it the feel of a giant playground at time.... Events in London > Film Bette Davis
National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Wednesday 2nd August 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
Bette Davis had been appearing in minor romantic roles for six years when it occurred to John Cromwell to cast her as the vile Mildred Rogers in 'Of Human Bondage' (1934), a brilliantly vicious tale of misdirected love. 'Bette the bitch' was born, and though that film .... Events in London > Film Carmen Maura and Pedro Almodóvar
National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Wednesday 2nd August 2006 - Thursday 31st August 2006
For most people in this country, their first contact with the films of Pedro Almodovar came with 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown', his gloriously gaudy tale of 80s womanhood. Carmen Maura giant heels and tiny tube skirt could have made her simply ridiculous,.... Events in London > Family Events Kids' Week
Multiple venues, West-End, London, WC2H 7BP
Friday 18th August 2006 - Friday 1st September 2006
Now in its ninth year, Kids' Week is a truly inspired summer treat for families. Excitable tots and teens will descend upon Theatreland for two action-packed weeks in August. Children aged 5-16 years can go to see an awesome selection of dazzling West End hits for fr.... Events in London > Theatre Donkeys' Years
Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
Thursday 27th April 2006 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
'Donkeys' Years' sees six former students returning to their old college for a 25-year reunion. Once they are locked in for a night, they rapidly find themselves reverting to their youthful ways, and a wild evening ensues. What begins as a sparky comedy of manners rapi.... Events in London > Theatre The Play's the Thing - OnThe Third Day
New Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, London, WC2H 9ND
Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
Channel 4's new reality TV series launched a competition to find a new playwright, with the reward of a guaranteed run at the New Ambassador's Theatre. It's a strange experience going to watch a play whose audience already know so much about it. Having watched the sele.... Events in London > Theatre Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Monday 12th June 2006 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
Jeffrey Bernard was a legendary raconteur, bon viveur and, above all, a drinker, whose column in 'The Spectator' magazine describing his dissipated lifestyle was described by Jonathan Meades as "a suicide note in weekly instalments." His circle of friends included majo.... Events in London > Theatre The Woman in Black
Fortune Theatre, Russell St., London, WC2B 5HH
Tuesday 1st January 2002 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
One of the less well-known West-End fixtures, this adaptation of Susan Hill's gothic novel has been packing out houses since 1989 through word of mouth alone. In Stephen Mallatrat's stylish adaptation, an elderly lawyer hires a young actor to re-enact the experiences .... Events in London > Theatre Sugar Mummies
Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4BG
Saturday 5th August 2006 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
The stag-do in Prague or boys heading off to Bangkok are the images most commonly associated with sex tourism, but out in the Caribbean there is an intriguing gender reversal. Tanika Gupta's new play follows Maggie, Kitty, Ginny and Yolanda, four middle-aged British wo.... Events in London > Festivals Watch This Space
National Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Wednesday 7th June 2006 - Saturday 2nd September 2006
Once again the South Bank will be taken over throughout the summer with a programme of free events - from live music to dance, theatre, acrobatic spectaculars and film screenings - all organised by the National Theatre. Stroll down to the Thames one summer evening with.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions The Ship - the Art of Climate Change
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
Saturday 3rd June 2006 - Sunday 3rd September 2006
The Natural History Museum gallery is filled with a great dripping, groaning and cracking sound, as if this great Victorian temple of science were slowly trying to melt into a new shape. In fact, this is a new soundwork by Max Eastley, who has recorded the sound of the.... Events in London > Family Events Operation Stormbreaker
The London Eye, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB
Saturday 15th July 2006 - Sunday 3rd September 2006
A trip on London's celebrated giant wheel, the London Eye, is bound to be a big hit with the kiddies come the Summer holidays. Children can fly above the capital in a shiny glass pod one bright sunny morning, eagerly pointing out over 50 London attractions from the sky.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Rembrandt and Co.
Wednesday 7th June 2006 - Sunday 3rd September 2006
It has always been a great nuisance to collectors that the artists of the Dutch Golden Age were quite happy to have students or apprentices fill in blocks of colour on their paintings, content to put their own names to works whose production they had merely supervised..... Events in London > Major Exhibitions The Road to Byzantium - Luxury Arts of Antiquity
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
Thursday 30th March 2006 - Sunday 3rd September 2006
Bringing together a bevy of treasures from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, as well as the Victoria and Albert and the British Museum, this exhibition aims to blow apart the commonly held notion that ancient Classical influence on art disappeared entirely from th.... Events in London > Family Events The Ant Bully 3D
BFI London IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, London, SE1 8XR
Friday 4th August 2006 - Monday 4th September 2006
Has there ever been a better choice of movie to put on at the IMAX? Bullied ten-year-old Nicky takes out his frustration by flooding the ant colony at the end of his garden. Predictably miffed, the ants respond by shrinking him to their size and setting him to work rep.... Events in London > Theatre Fool for Love
Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6NA
Wednesday 7th June 2006 - Saturday 9th September 2006
Sam Shepard's steamy tale of obsessive love is set in a crumbling 50s motel, where Eddie finally catches up with old flame, May, after driving "two thousand four hundred and eighty miles". The squalid location forms the backdrop to a couple dissecting fifteen years of .... Events in London > Theatre Open Air Theatre
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NR
Monday 29th May 2006 - Saturday 9th September 2006
The Regent's Park open air theatre produces exciting, funny productions of Shakespeare, year in, year out, and there is no better place to watch these plays than in the way they were originally intended to be performed: in the open, under the sky, surrounded by English.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Dark Matter
White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6PB
Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Saturday 9th September 2006
'Dark Matter' is the term that astronomers use to refer 'the invisible expanses between points of visibility', so when we saw this show, we were suprised to discover that its joining theme was black. All the works in the show are black. While not a tenuous link, it se.... Events in London > Music: Classical and Traditional The Proms
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP
Friday 14th July 2006 - Saturday 9th September 2006
The most popular season of classical music in England goes from strength-to-strength each year. The concerts began over 100 years ago and were always meant to be populist in both pricing and music. A varied but accessible programme regularly draws huge audiences, concl.... Events in London > Theatre Footloose - the Musical
Novello Theatre, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD
Saturday 8th April 2006 - Saturday 9th September 2006
When Ren and his parents move to a backwater town in rural America, the energetic teenager is shocked to discover that dancing, his primary passion, has been banned, as a result of a freak dancing accident. However, Ren can't keep his dancing feet under wraps for long .... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Howard Hodgkin
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Sunday 10th September 2006
This is the first exhibition to explore the work of Howard Hodgkin from 1950s to the present day, revealing the process that made him one of the biggest artists of the 1970s, and one of the most recognised and respected artists working today. Joyful colours and subtle.... Events in London > Family Events Oz
Friday 4th August 2006 - Sunday 10th September 2006
This relatively new children's theatre is one of the most valuable additions to the capital's cultural portfolio in recent years. Churning out a string of fantastic productions, it's the perfect venue to whisk your kids to this summer for school holiday entertainment. .... Events in London > Dance Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Friday 1st September 2006 - Sunday 10th September 2006
One of the most prestigious dance companies in the world, Ballet Nacional de Cuba is renowned for its unparalleled technique, taking classic Western ballets and invigorating them with the grace, energy and wit of Cuban dance. They came to Sadler's Wells in 2005 on thei.... Events in London > Theatre Sinatra at the London Palladium
London Palladium, Argyll Street, London, W1A 3AB
Friday 17th February 2006 - Saturday 16th September 2006
Sinatra first graced the boards of the Palladium back in 1950, and played his most celebrated UK concerts at this legendary venue. Since his death in 1998, he has enjoyed an almost continuous run in the West End, first in the hugely successful The Rat Pack, Live from L.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Antonioni's Blow-Up
Friday 21st July 2006 - Sunday 17th September 2006
'Blow Up' remains the only film set in London that regularly makes it into those 'Greatest Film Of All Time' lists. It's also a film whoe particular subject is photography, making it a perfect subject for this friendly West End gallery.. It's a marvellous movie, where.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions The London Fire Brigade Archive
Friday 21st July 2006 - Sunday 17th September 2006
The Photographers' Gallery is always a lovely spot, but it really comes into its own when they make a discovery like this one. For reasons best known to itself, the London Fire Brigade has kept an archive of photographs that dates back to the 1860s and now contains mor.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Sunday 17th September 2006
Pierre Huyghe is probably most famous for 'The Third Memory'. This 1975 film neatly demonstrated that bank robber, John Wojtowicz, could no longer distinguish the real events of his life from those depicted in Sidney Lumet's 'Dog Day Afternoon', where he was played by .... Events in London > Major Exhibitions BP Portrait Award 2006
National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
Thursday 15th June 2006 - Sunday 17th September 2006
The 25,000 BP Portrait Award is, for many young artists, a ticket to making it in the art world. Though the Hayward Gallery recently debated the death of the portrait, the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of the short-listed entries demonstrates that it is still .... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Future City - Experiment and Utopia in Architecture
Barbican Gallery, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Thursday 15th June 2006 - Sunday 17th September 2006
When architects start talking about being 'radical' and 'experimental' all sensible people know that it's time to run for cover - or at least move to a Grade I listed cottage in the Cotswolds, where anyone who mentions the beauty of a brutal concrete slab is certain to.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Feed Your Imagination
Friday 18th August 2006 - Monday 18th September 2006
The 36 finalists of the Observer Food Monthly's photography prize are on display in the OXO Tower's gallery this month. Although the competition was open to anyone, it's a 10,000 prize, so these are mostly taken by professional photographers, and the standard is very h.... Events in London > Theatre The Vegemite Tales
The Venue, Leicester Place, London, WC2H7BP
Thursday 27th July 2006 - Saturday 23rd September 2006
There's probably an excellent sitcom waiting to be written about the trials and tribulations of life in an Aussie flatshare in London, but this perennial Fringe show, returning to London for the umpteenth time, manages to fit enough good jokes for a six-part series int.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Sunday 24th September 2006
For two months in the summer visitors have the chance to look round Buckingham Palace and admire the interiors of this principle royal residence. Thousands have visited since the palace first opened its doors, impressed by the remarkable atmosphere coupled with the a.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Dressed for the Occasion
Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Sunday 24th September 2006
In celebration of the Queen's 80th birthday, a collection of her dresses and jewellery will be on display in the State Rooms of Buckingham Palace. Though we are used to seeing her in the conservative pastel jacket-and-skirt combo that she wears on informal public appea.... Events in London > Theatre Rock 'n' Roll
Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4BG
Saturday 22nd July 2006 - Sunday 24th September 2006
On study leave in Cambridge, Czech academic Jan (Rufus Sewell) is delighted by all things English, and especially the rebellious new music of the 1960s. The beginning of the Prague Spring festival lures him back to his homeland but, when the Soviet tanks roll in, his r.... Events in London > Theatre The Voysey Inheritance
National Theatre - Olivier, South Bank Centre, London, SE1 9PX
Thursday 10th August 2006 - Saturday 30th September 2006
When Edward Voysey discovers that his lawyer father has been speculating with his clients' money his entire system of values is thrown into disarray. Things take a turn for the worse when his father suddenly passes away. The crumbling mantel of family patriarch is subs.... Events in London > Theatre Avenue Q
Noel Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N4AG
Thursday 1st June 2006 - Saturday 30th September 2006
After taking Broadway by storm, 'Avenue Q' arrives in the West End for a limited run. Meet Princeton, Kate Monster, Trekkie, Brian and their friends on a crummy alleyway in New York, as they find out what life is really all about and learn to love it despite the ups an.... Events in London > Theatre The Canterbury Tales (Part 1)
Saturday 8th July 2006 - Saturday 30th September 2006
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' - a set of stories told by a bickering, motley crew of travellers on their way to Canterbury to seek forgiveness for their sins - are updated for the modern stage with terrific flair by Greg Doran's RSC. The mixture of chivalry, gender poli.... Events in London > Theatre The Canterbury Tales (Part 2)
Saturday 8th July 2006 - Saturday 30th September 2006
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' - a set of stories told by a bickering, motley crew of travellers on their way to Canterbury to seek forgiveness for their sins - are updated for the modern stage with terrific flair by Greg Doran's RSC. The mixture of chivalry, gender poli.... Events in London > Theatre The Last Five Years
Tuesday 18th July 2006 - Saturday 30th September 2006
Following the successful transfer of their brilliant 'Sunday in the Park with George' to the West End, the Menier Chocolate is tackling another tricky and unconventional musical. 'The Last Five Years' has a fairly common subject for a musical - it explores a relationsh.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction 1908 - 1922
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Thursday 22nd June 2006 - Sunday 1st October 2006
Wassily Kandinsky is most familiar as the arch-modernist, one of the first artists to give life and humour to the chaotic geometry of abstract art, and among the 20th century's most brilliant innovators. Yet this fascinating exhibition reveals another side. His extra.... Events in London > Theatre Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Saturday 20th May 2006 - Friday 6th October 2006
One of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's better jokes was that if Shakespeare had been a modern Hollywood director he'd still be making sequels to this astoundingly brutal gore-fest, which easily matches Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street for sheer nastiness. This ho.... Events in London > Theatre In Extremis - the story of Abelard and Heloise
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Sunday 27th August 2006 - Saturday 7th October 2006
Howard Brenton is most famous for 'The Romans in Britain', the 1980 play that launched Mary Whitehouse's first great campaign against immorality in the theatre. The censorship campaigners have a long memory, and earlier this year he again had one of his works - a rathe.... Events in London > Theatre The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Saturday 22nd July 2006 - Saturday 7th October 2006
The most preposterous, most boisterous and least intelligent of Shakespeare's comedies is this glorious farce, in which two sets of identical twins get mixed up with each others' wives, lovers, debtors and colleagues. This is the first comedy to be performed under the.... Events in London > Theatre Frost/Nixon
Thursday 10th August 2006 - Saturday 7th October 2006
The break-in at Watergate Hotel - the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee - was eventually to bring down a President. Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon resigned in the face of impeachment, but refused to admit his guilt. When David Frost, an amiable Brit.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Front Page - Celebrating 100 Years of the British Newspaper
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Thursday 25th May 2006 - Sunday 8th October 2006
The British Library not only has a collection of every book ever published in the English language anywhere in the world - it also houses a fairly comprehensive collection of newspapers and magazines, a colection they've drawn on for this entertaining exhibition of twe.... Events in London > Theatre Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Sunday 25th June 2006 - Sunday 8th October 2006
Julius Caesar's former Lieutenant is seduced by the Egyptian queen. As she uses his power to defend her nation, the Roman Empire descends into civil war. Politics and violence provide a heady background to Shakespeare's tale of history's most celebrated temptress. The.... Events in London > Theatre Shakespeare's Globe Season - The Edges of Rome
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9ED
Friday 5th May 2006 - Sunday 8th October 2006
The magic of Shakespeare's Globe is not just in its Elizabethan beauty, though it is certainly one of the capital's most romantic summer spots, it is also in the unique way the theatre works; with most of the audience standing mere inches from the stage there is a real.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Modigliani and his Models
Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, W1J 0BD
Saturday 8th July 2006 - Sunday 15th October 2006
Modigliani's fame, and the hugely inflated value of his paintings, is often assumed to come, not from his art, but from his life: the legendary bar and brothel bills, the turbulent relationships, the ether and the opium, his death at 35, and the subsequent suicide of h.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Serpentine Pavilion
The Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
Thursday 13th July 2006 - Sunday 15th October 2006
Following last year's amiable, armadillo-like structure, the creators of this year's pavilion have gone for something considerably more ambitious. Floating above the gallery's lawn will be a giant oval inflatable - looking something like a magic floating jellyfish. Lit.... Events in London > Theatre Evita
Adelphi Theatre, The Strand, London, WC2E 7NA
Friday 2nd June 2006 - Saturday 21st October 2006
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of politics, power and patriotism returns to the West End stage. The tale of the larger-than-life wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, follows its ruthless heroine through her methodical elevation to secular sainthood in her homeland. A.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Angus McBean Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Sunday 22nd October 2006
During the 1930s, Angus McBean established his reputation as indisputably the most important photographer of plays and players, and over the next 50 years he was to become one of the essential image-makers for film, music, stage and comedy, as well as a respected surre.... Events in London > Theatre Chicago
Friday 28th April 2006 - Saturday 28th October 2006
The saga of a chorus girl who gets away with murder thanks to her sleazy lawyer was a flop in the 1970s as audiences found the subject matter too bleak. However, recent Broadway and London revivals have been huge successes, spawning the film version which swept the boa.... Events in London > Theatre See How They Run
Tuesday 20th June 2006 - Saturday 28th October 2006
Once upon a time, it was almost impossible to see a comedy in this country without being confronted by at least one trouserless vicar. The good old days return to the West End this year with a revival of this 1944 farce, which is brimful of escaped German P.O.Ws, naugh.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1A 1AA
Friday 19th May 2006 - Sunday 29th October 2006
Another glimpse of the vast collection of art that the British royal family have assembled comes with this first ever glimpse at the tastes of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. A genuine art-lover, she was particularly involved - as a collector, a patron and as a frien.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Formula One - the Great Design Race
Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD
Saturday 1st July 2006 - Sunday 29th October 2006
The Formula 1 car is one of the most intensively designed objects in the modern world, with more care going into its creation than most major buildings. An average car has around 10,000 components, each of which needs to be perfectly designed to squeeze that extra bit .... Events in London > Family Events Butterfly Paradise
London Zoo, Outer Circle Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY
Saturday 1st April 2006 - Tuesday 31st October 2006
This new exhibition at London Zoo celebrates the astounding vividness and variety of butterflies and moths from around the world and here in the UK. Fluttering and diving gracefully through the air, many consider the butterfly as one of the most magical creatures to b.... Events in London > Theatre The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, West Street, London, WC2H 9NZ
Tuesday 1st July 2003 - Saturday 4th November 2006
The longest running show in theatre history, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has been delighting and perplexing audiences for over 46 years. It's a classic murder mystery set in a remote country house, with plenty of twists and turns, dark comedy and light relief. The .... Events in London > Theatre The Rat Pack Live
Savoy Theatre, The Strand, London, WC2R 0ET
Friday 3rd June 2005 - Saturday 18th November 2006
The Rat Pack Live is a daring concept that succeeds brilliantly. The production aims to recreate both the musical magic and the hilarious camaraderie that made this group of performers giants of the showbiz scene. The show recreates an evening in the lives of Frank Sin.... Events in London > Theatre Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4HT
Thursday 10th August 2006 - Saturday 25th November 2006
Peter Hall brings one of the maddest and most-loved romps of the Technicolor era to the London stage. Set in 1850, it follows a family who develop a novel solution to their romantic problems: kidnapping women from the nearby village. Timelessly camp, and played entirel.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Designing Modern Britain
8Shad Thames, , London, SE1 2YD
Saturday 3rd December 2005 - Sunday 26th November 2006
When the Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin arrived in London in 1931, he described the British as being "lost in a deep provincial sleep". The Design Museum's new exhibition traces the history of Britain's awakening, from iconic London Transport designs that hav.... Events in London > Major Exhibitions Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987
Somerset House - Gilbert Collection, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
Friday 23rd June 2006 - Sunday 26th November 2006
The Gilbert Collection introduces 150 years of the world's greatest jewellery, in what has to be one of the most bling-tastic exhibitions ever to come to London. It features 200 pieces, some from Tiffany's own archive, others from the private collections
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