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CONTENTS<br />
Events 4<br />
Cirque Eloize UK Premiere of Hotel<br />
The Murder Express<br />
Valentine’s Day Champagne at the Shard<br />
Music 8<br />
Disney’s Broadway Hits<br />
Piano Explored: London Mozart Players<br />
Extra Shows for WICKED<br />
Exhibitions 12<br />
Cutty Sark Celebrates 150th Birthday<br />
London Stories at LT Museum<br />
A Festival of Chemistry<br />
Theatre 16<br />
Come From Away London Premiere<br />
The Play That Goes Wrong<br />
Duchess of Sussex Visits National Theatre<br />
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CIRQUE ELOIZE UK PREMIERE OF<br />
HOTEL AT THE PEACOCK<br />
Celebrating its 25th anniversary,<br />
Canadian contemporary circus company<br />
Cirque Eloize opens the doors to its new<br />
show, Hotel, at Sadler’s Wells’ West End<br />
theatre The Peacock from Wednesday<br />
20 February to Saturday 9 March.<br />
In an art deco grand hotel, tourists<br />
and travellers, the famous and infamous,<br />
mingle across the centuries. With 12<br />
dazzling acrobats and musicians, and an<br />
original score by Eloi Painchaud, Cirque<br />
Eloize showcases the company’s<br />
trademark blend of contemporary circus<br />
and drama in a place that never sleeps.<br />
Hotel is directed by Emmanuel<br />
Guillaume.<br />
Cirque Eloize has become a world<br />
leader in contemporary circus since it<br />
was founded in <strong>19</strong>93, specialising in<br />
creating shows that fuse circus arts with<br />
music, theatre and dance. The company<br />
has travelled to over 550 cities, giving<br />
more than 5,500 performances for<br />
audiences of over 3.5 million.<br />
Combining breath-taking feats with<br />
engaging stories, Cirque Eloize has a<br />
daring approach to circus techniques<br />
and the themes it tackles.<br />
The company last performed in<br />
London at The Peacock in October 2017<br />
with Saloon. Previous productions that<br />
have been seen at The Peacock include<br />
iD, bringing together the world of urban<br />
dance and circus arts, and Cirkopolis,<br />
the company’s tenth creation which,<br />
after a performance in New York in 2014<br />
won the Drama Desk Award for Unique<br />
Theatrical Experience.<br />
Box office telephone 020 7863 8222<br />
or www.peacocktheatre.com<br />
VALENTINE’S DAY CHAMPAGNE<br />
EXPERIENCE AT THE SHARD<br />
As one of the most romantic venues<br />
in London, The View from The Shard is<br />
the perfect place to treat a loved one.<br />
<strong>This</strong> Valentine’s Day, couples can enjoy<br />
a glass of bubbly together whilst<br />
admiring the iconic 360° view of<br />
London from the top of The Shard, with<br />
a luxurious Champagne Experience.<br />
Tickets include a glass of Moët &<br />
Chandon Imperial Brut Champagne<br />
which can be enjoyed whilst taking in<br />
the breathtaking views of the capital city<br />
from Europe’s highest Moët & Chandon<br />
Bar. Night owls can stay and admire the<br />
view for as long as they like afterwards,<br />
as The View from The Shard is open<br />
until midnight on Valentine’s Day.<br />
Visitors will be taken up to the 68th<br />
floor in high speed elevators, travelling<br />
at six metres per second, to the<br />
observation decks which span two<br />
floors. Floor 69 is an enclosed space<br />
and indoor viewing platform with<br />
landmark signage, helping visitors to<br />
explore London’s unique landscape as<br />
well as London’s highest permanent<br />
champagne bar.<br />
Floor 72 gives visitors access to the<br />
open air Skydeck and the multi-sensory<br />
bar, boasting the highest views in<br />
London.<br />
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IMMERSE AND DINE ON BOARD<br />
'THE MURDÉR EXPRESS'<br />
There was a special kind of thrill that<br />
came with train travel in the early 20th<br />
century. The practice was in its infancy,<br />
and therefore passengers ride for<br />
pleasure, not necessity.<br />
Now back by popular demand, guests<br />
on the immersive theatre and dining<br />
experience, ‘The Murdér Express', will<br />
enjoy all the decadence of the era, with<br />
lavish surroundings and an indulgent<br />
four-course meal created by the winner<br />
of MasterChef 2016. Praised for her<br />
creativity, inspiration and skill, Jane<br />
Devonshire has designed a menu<br />
(suitable for all dietary requirements), fit<br />
for the noblest 20th-century passenger.<br />
The amuse bouche is delicious<br />
edamame bean bruschetta, followed by<br />
roasted garam masala cauliflower starter,<br />
with a main course of Lamb three ways<br />
or vegan/vegetarian equivalent and to<br />
finish apricot and ginger polenta cakes<br />
with brandy snaps.<br />
On the journey, guests will be joined<br />
by an East End costermonger, a music<br />
hall star, a widow in search of adventure<br />
and a local antique dealer. They’d better<br />
hope that The Murdér Express isn’t as<br />
ominous as it sounds, because if there<br />
is evil afoot, everyone is a suspect!<br />
Funicular are a passionate collective<br />
of creators specialising in original and<br />
immersive experiences. Co-founded by<br />
entrepreneur, actor and scriptwriter Craig<br />
Wilkinson and production director<br />
Ed Borgnis, the Funicular team boasts<br />
years of experience bringing events and<br />
theatre to life all over the world.<br />
<strong>This</strong> is the second time ‘The Murdér<br />
Express’ will be departing from Pedley<br />
Street Station, following the spooky<br />
mystery ‘Journey To The Underworld’<br />
and the festive adventure ‘The Greatest<br />
Snowman’.<br />
Funicular's ‘The Murdér Express' will<br />
run until 30 April with more shows<br />
planned throughout the year.<br />
For more information, visit the<br />
website at funicularproductions.com<br />
The immersive theatre and dining experience, ‘The Murdér Express',<br />
at Pedley Street Station.<br />
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THE WIDER EARTH COMMEMORATES<br />
210th BIRTHDAY OF DARWIN<br />
The Wider Earth – the critically<br />
acclaimed drama about the young<br />
Charles Darwin’s expedition on HMS<br />
Beagle playing at the custom-built<br />
theatre in the Jerwood Gallery at<br />
London’s Natural History Museum until<br />
24 February – will hold a special VIP<br />
Gala Night on 12 February.<br />
The gala, hosted by Julia Bradbury,<br />
and in the presence of HRH the Duke<br />
and Duchess of Sussex, will be held to<br />
commemorate Charles Darwin’s 210th<br />
birthday, and will support The Queen’s<br />
Commonwealth Trust and the<br />
production’s official charitable partner<br />
The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy.<br />
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and<br />
Duchess of Sussex will attend the gala<br />
performance in the Duke’s official<br />
capacity of President of The Queen’s<br />
Commonwealth Trust.<br />
Tickets include a pre-show reception<br />
hosted by The Australian High<br />
Commission and are available at<br />
www.thewiderearth.com<br />
VIRGIN MONEY LONDON MARATHON<br />
RAISE A BILLION FOR CHARITY<br />
Last week, the Virgin Money London<br />
Marathon announced that it is on course<br />
this year to raise more than £1 billion for<br />
charity since the first edition of the<br />
world’s greatest marathon in <strong>19</strong>81.<br />
THEATRE TREASURES: NATIONAL<br />
THEATRE ARCHIVE UNBOXED<br />
Celebrating 25 years of the National<br />
Theatre Archive, a new exhibition<br />
opening on 8 February reveals some of<br />
the treasures of the collection. Theatremakers,<br />
playwrights and researchers<br />
were invited to choose an object which<br />
inspires them from the Archive.<br />
Participants included theatre critic<br />
Michael Billington, directors Simon<br />
Godwin and Emily Lim, playwright and<br />
director Patrick Marber and actor Kobna<br />
Holdbrook-Smith. Their responses sit<br />
alongside the objects in the exhibition.<br />
The National Theatre Archive is a<br />
treasure trove of material, encompassing<br />
all of the creative, technical and<br />
administrative records of the National<br />
Theatre. The collection covers the<br />
movement to found the National Theatre<br />
and the period from the start of the<br />
company in <strong>19</strong>63 right up to the present<br />
day. It is a free resource which is open<br />
to everyone.<br />
Director Emily Lim said: ‘I love that<br />
anyone can come to the archive and get<br />
theirs hands on such a huge range of<br />
productions and materials for free. I am<br />
always telling everyone about it, it’s the<br />
National’s best kept secret!’ Playwright<br />
and director Patrick Marber said: ‘Our<br />
tradition is as old as the hills. Let’s<br />
celebrate that. And use knowledge of the<br />
past to innovate in the present.’<br />
MAN OF LA MANCHA AT THE<br />
LONDON COLISEUM<br />
Nicholas Lyndhurst and West End star<br />
Cassidy Janson are to join Kelsey<br />
Grammer and Danielle de Niese in the<br />
acclaimed musical Man of La Mancha<br />
which opens at the London Coliseum on<br />
26 April. Man of La Mancha, produced<br />
by Michael Linnit and Michael Grade,<br />
the producers who brought Chess,<br />
Carousel, Sunset Boulevard and<br />
Sweeney Todd to the London Coliseum -<br />
are collaborating again with English<br />
National Opera to bring a brand new<br />
production of the Tony award winning<br />
Broadway musical to London, the first<br />
West End production in over 50 years.<br />
Man of La Mancha will play a limited<br />
season, with performances from 26 April<br />
to 8 June. Featuring the iconic song<br />
‘Dream the Impossible Dream’, Man of<br />
La Mancha is Inspired by Miguel de<br />
Cervantes’s masterpiece Don Quixote.<br />
In a 16th century dungeon Cervantes<br />
and his man servant await trial from the<br />
Spanish Inquisition. In his possession he<br />
has a trunk carrying an unfinished novel,<br />
Don Quixote. As prisoners attempt to steal<br />
his possessions, Cervantes embarks on<br />
acting out his novel as his defence,<br />
transforming himself into Alonso Quijano.<br />
Quijano, deluded, believes he is a knight<br />
errant, renames himself Don Quixote de la<br />
Mancha, and sets off on a fantastical<br />
quest with his man servant Sancho Panza.<br />
Danielle de Niese. Photo: Chris Dunlop DECCA.<br />
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Photos: Kevin Day.<br />
PIANO EXPLORED WITH LONDON<br />
MOZART PLAYERS AT ST JOHN’S<br />
London Mozart Players’ 70th birthday<br />
season continues with a concert on<br />
13 February in the acclaimed Piano<br />
Explored lunchtime series at St John’s<br />
Smith Square in the heart of Westminster.<br />
Just two days after the orchestra’s 70th<br />
birthday, LMP musicians and Conductor<br />
Laureate Howard Shelley gather to<br />
celebrate this milestone with a<br />
performance of the piano concerto that<br />
featured in the LMP’s first ever concert in<br />
<strong>19</strong>49 under the baton of Harry Blech –<br />
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G. In a<br />
whistle-stop hour, Howard will lead the<br />
orchestra in an engaging repertoire<br />
deconstruction of the work, followed by a<br />
performance of one of Mozart’s finest<br />
concertos.<br />
Written in 1784, Piano Concerto No.<br />
17 contains no less than six contrasting<br />
themes in the first movement followed<br />
by a harmonically dramatic slow<br />
movement, and a finale that features a<br />
sparkling set of variations on a single<br />
tune. Mozart later taught his pet starling<br />
to sing the main theme; though he<br />
noticed that that the bird always held the<br />
sixth note too long, and sharpened the<br />
ninth and tenth notes! Howard Shelley<br />
gives the full story behind this charming<br />
and much-loved piece before giving a<br />
bravura performance with the London<br />
Mozart Players.<br />
These lively and popular lunchtime<br />
concerts are perfect for London’s<br />
visitors, day-trippers or workers – truly<br />
‘the best lunch-break you’ve ever had’<br />
(International Piano). Why not make a<br />
day of it and enjoy lunch in the<br />
delightful Footstool Restaurant at<br />
St John’s Smith Square before the<br />
concert? It’s the perfect way to shrug off<br />
those winter blues!<br />
Box office telephone 020 7222 1061.<br />
MUSIC MEETS SCIENCE WITH<br />
LPO’S FUNHARMONICS<br />
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is<br />
joining forces with expert Science<br />
presenter and comedian Helen Arney for<br />
its next FUNharmonics concert on<br />
30 March, based on the theme of music<br />
and science. The LPO, conducted by<br />
Michael Seal, is joined by tenor Greg<br />
Tassell to explore the human voice,<br />
looking into how we make sounds and<br />
what happens when we sing. With a<br />
collection of experiments ranging from big<br />
balloons and musical tubes to duck<br />
quacks and decibel meters, the presenters<br />
will demonstrate how your voice works<br />
live on stage, culminating in a scientific<br />
singalong led by the orchestra and Greg<br />
Tassell. The repertoire will include the<br />
prelude to Bizet’s Carmen, Flight of the<br />
Bumble Bee by Rimsky-Korsakov, Do-Re-<br />
Mi from the Sound of Music and more.<br />
Helen Arney, self-professed<br />
‘presenter, comedian and geek<br />
songstress’ will join the LPO to present<br />
this FUNharmonics concert. Arney is<br />
best known for explaining physics while<br />
riding a rollercoaster for BBC Coast,<br />
singing the periodic table on Channel 4<br />
and electrifying Sandi Toksvig on QI.<br />
The LPO – widely regarded as one of<br />
the world’s finest orchestras working on<br />
the international stage – has brought the<br />
wonder of orchestral music to children for<br />
many years through its FUNharmonics<br />
concerts. These much-loved, hour long<br />
concerts offer an engaging and fun<br />
introduction to classical music through<br />
the power of a world-class symphony<br />
orchestra on stage.<br />
The LPO presents three musical<br />
family days at Royal Festival Hall each<br />
season, all of which are designed with<br />
children in mind and involve a presenter,<br />
audience participation and fun activities.<br />
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DISNEY’S BROADWAY HITS RETURN<br />
TO ROYAL ALBERT HALL<br />
A special concert celebrating over two<br />
decades of stunning Disney Broadway<br />
shows returns to the Royal Albert Hall<br />
for three performances on 1 & 2 March.<br />
Disney’s Broadway Hits – which sold out<br />
in minutes when it received its UK<br />
premiere at the venue in 2016 – will<br />
feature the BBC Concert Orchestra and a<br />
galaxy of stars performing showstoppers<br />
from an astonishing selection<br />
of stage successes.<br />
<strong>This</strong> musical extravaganza will feature<br />
numbers from Tony and Academy<br />
Award-winning scores, including Beauty<br />
and the Beast, Aida, The Lion King,<br />
Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Tarzan and The<br />
Hunchback of Notre Dame, sung by top<br />
talent from the West End and beyond,<br />
including Ava Brennan, Shaun Escoffrey,<br />
Willemijn Verkaik and Anton Zetterholm.<br />
Lucy Noble, Artistic Director at the<br />
Royal Albert Hall, said: ‘We’re extremely<br />
excited to welcome Disney’s Broadway<br />
Hits back to the Hall’s famous stage with<br />
a new cast of stars, following the sell-out<br />
success of its UK premiere. <strong>This</strong> unique<br />
show brings together the best of Disney<br />
on stage for one unforgettable, hit-packed<br />
performance, featuring the finest in<br />
contemporary musical theatre talent.’<br />
The show, produced by Disney<br />
Theatrical Productions, also spotlights a<br />
host of renowned composers and<br />
lyricists, including Kristin Anderson-<br />
Lopez & Robert Lopez, Phil Collins,<br />
Elton John, Alan Menken, Tim Rice,<br />
Stephen Schwartz and Richard & Robert<br />
Sherman. The BBC Concert Orchestra<br />
will be conducted by Keith Lockhart.<br />
Box office telephone 020 7589 8212.<br />
BOXWOOD & BRASS PERFORM<br />
BEETHOVEN’S SEPTET OP. 20<br />
On 14 February at St John’s Smith<br />
Square, period-instrument wind ensemble<br />
Boxwood & Brass will give the first<br />
performance of a recently discovered<br />
arrangement of Ludvig Van Beethoven’s<br />
Septet Op. 20. Originally composed for<br />
wind and strings in c.1799, the Septet was<br />
Beethoven’s most popular work during his<br />
lifetime, so much so that he apparently<br />
remarked ‘I wish it were burned!’.<br />
In 1805, Beethoven’s student and<br />
trusted collaborator, the young pianist<br />
Carl Czerny made an ambitious<br />
arrangement of the Septet for a 6-part<br />
‘Harmonie’ of two clarinets, two horns<br />
and two bassoons. Czerny’s virtuosic<br />
‘remix’ pushes the boundaries of what is<br />
possible on early <strong>19</strong>th-century<br />
instruments, showing them to be as<br />
agile as their string counterparts and<br />
bringing a new range of colours to the<br />
piece. His arrangement was based on an<br />
early working manuscript of the Septet,<br />
and includes many differences from the<br />
piece as it is familiar today.<br />
Photo: Tom Bowles.<br />
Founded in 2013, Boxwood & Brass<br />
brings together the emerging generation<br />
of British period wind-instrument<br />
players to advocate for neglected wind<br />
chamber music and harmoniemusik of<br />
the Classical and early-Romantic<br />
periods. Members of the group work<br />
regularly with top orchestras from across<br />
Europe, including the Orchestra<br />
Revolutionnaire et Romantique,<br />
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,<br />
Gabrieli, L’Orchestra de Champs-Elysees<br />
and Spira Mirabilis.<br />
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JOHN MALKOVICH FIRST WEST END<br />
APPEARANCE IN 30 YEARS<br />
The multi award-winning John<br />
Malkovich returns to the West End stage<br />
in June after nearly 30 years to play<br />
Barney Fein, a top dog Hollywood<br />
producer in Bitter Wheat, a new play by<br />
the legendary author, director and<br />
playwright David Mamet.<br />
The Pulitzer prize winning David<br />
Mamet has written some of the most<br />
iconic plays of the last 50 years<br />
including Sexual Perversity in Chicago,<br />
American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross,<br />
Speed-the-Plow, and Oleanna.<br />
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Alice Fearn as Elphaba in WICKED.<br />
Photos: Matt Crockett.<br />
Malkovich, one of the world’s most<br />
revered actors, is best known for his<br />
many films including Dangerous<br />
Liaisons, Being John Malkovich, Con<br />
Air and Mulholland Drive.<br />
Bitter Wheat is a play about a<br />
depraved Hollywood mogul. It rips the<br />
pashmina off the suppurating wound<br />
which is show business, and leaves us<br />
better human beings, and fitter to once<br />
more confront the horror of life. The<br />
hero, Barney Fein, is a bloated monstera<br />
studio head who, like his predecessor,<br />
the minotaur, devours the young he has<br />
lured to his cave. His fall from power to<br />
shame is a mythic journey which has<br />
been compared to The Odyssey by<br />
people who claim to have read that<br />
book.<br />
Bitter Wheat is produced by Jeffrey<br />
Richards and Smith & Brant Theatricals.<br />
Garrick Theatre Box Office telephone<br />
0330 333 4811.<br />
HIT MUSICAL WICKED ADDS EXTRA<br />
SHOWS FOR 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Wicked, the West End and Broadway<br />
musical sensation that tells the<br />
incredible untold story of the Witches of<br />
Oz, is now booking until 30 November<br />
at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre.<br />
Extra shows have been added in 20<strong>19</strong> –<br />
for Half Term on Thursday 21 February,<br />
Thursday 18 April, Thursday 15 August,<br />
Thursday 29 August and Thursday<br />
24 October, each starting at 14.30.<br />
Already the 5th longest running musical<br />
currently playing in the West End, Wicked<br />
recently surpassed the run of Buddy - The<br />
Buddy Holly Story, to become the 13th<br />
longest running West End show in history.<br />
Alice Fearn (Elphaba) and Sophie Evans (Glinda) in Wicked.<br />
Wicked has won more than 100 major<br />
international awards, including three<br />
Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and ten<br />
theatregoer-voted WhatsOnStage Awards.<br />
Based on the acclaimed, best-selling<br />
novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked<br />
ingeniously re-imagines the stories and<br />
characters created by L. Frank Baum in<br />
‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. The show<br />
tells the incredible story of an unlikely<br />
but profound friendship between two<br />
sorcery students, whose extraordinary<br />
adventures in Oz will ultimately see them<br />
fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good<br />
and the Wicked Witch of the West.<br />
For tickets telephone 0844 871 3001<br />
or visit www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk<br />
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misses’ from the beginning of its build<br />
in Dumbarton to its superb setting in<br />
Greenwich today. Cutty Sark survived<br />
storms which ripped its rudder off on<br />
two occasions, a dismasting in the First<br />
World War and a terrible fire in 2007. In<br />
the year before the fire, the majority of<br />
Cutty Sark’s original fabric had been<br />
removed. <strong>This</strong> meant that, while<br />
devastating, the fire was nowhere near<br />
as destructive as it could have been.<br />
Over 90% of the ship’s hull structure<br />
that you see today is original to 1869.<br />
CUTTY SARK CELEBRATES ITS<br />
150TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A YEAR<br />
LONG CELEBRATION<br />
The world’s only surviving teaclipper;<br />
the Cutty Sark celebrates turning<br />
150 this year.<br />
The iconic, historic sailing ship and<br />
fastest of its time is now an awardwinning<br />
visitor attraction in Greenwich,<br />
London. February 20<strong>19</strong> marks the start<br />
of a year-long programme of events and<br />
celebrations that will be taking place at<br />
the Cutty Sark, starting from marking the<br />
anniversary of the signing of the contract<br />
to commence the build on 1st February<br />
to its launch on 22 November 1869 to<br />
the ship’s first official voyage on<br />
16 February 1870. On its first voyage,<br />
Cutty Sark carried ‘large amounts of<br />
wine, spirits and beer’, and came back<br />
from Shanghai loaded with 1.3 million<br />
pounds of tea.<br />
The Cutty Sark is a survivor and has<br />
a rich history, full of stories and ‘near<br />
To celebrate 150 years of the Cutty<br />
Sark, there will be a number of special<br />
events throughout the year including<br />
concerts, theatre and poetry<br />
performances relating to her impressive<br />
career, her Victorian maritime heritage<br />
and historic connections to the rest of<br />
the world.<br />
The Cutty Sark is located in Cutty<br />
Sark gardens; a short walk away from<br />
Cutty Sark DLR and within walking<br />
distance of Royal Museums Greenwich’s<br />
other sites, the National Maritime<br />
Museum, the Queen’s House and Royal<br />
Observatory Greenwich.<br />
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DON MCCULLIN AT TATE BRITAIN<br />
Tate Britain is presenting a major<br />
retrospective of the legendary British<br />
photographer Sir Don McCullin.<br />
Renowned as one of Britain’s greatest<br />
living photographers, McCullin has<br />
captured images of conflict from around<br />
the world including Vietnam, Northern<br />
Ireland, Lebanon and Biafra. Often taken at<br />
great personal risk, these unforgettable<br />
photographs will be shown alongside<br />
McCullin’s work in documentary<br />
photography, his travel assignments and<br />
his long term engagement with landscape<br />
and still life. With over 250 photographs,<br />
all printed by the artist himself in his own<br />
darkroom, this exhibition is a unique<br />
opportunity to see the scope and<br />
achievements of McCullin’s career.<br />
While McCullin has been best known<br />
as a photojournalist and war<br />
correspondent, he has also consistently<br />
engaged in documentary photography in<br />
Britain, depicting scenes of poverty and<br />
working class life in London’s East End<br />
and the north of England. From the<br />
homeless and disenfranchised<br />
population of Whitechapel in the <strong>19</strong>70s<br />
to the industrial landscapes of Bradford,<br />
Liverpool and Durham, McCullin has<br />
exposed changing social conditions in<br />
the UK.<br />
The Battle for the City of Hue, South Vietnam,<br />
US Marine Inside Civilian House <strong>19</strong>68.<br />
SEE BIG BEN, THE LONDON EYE &<br />
TOWER BRIDGE WITH CITY CRUISES<br />
Half term visitors to London can see<br />
the best views in London on a River<br />
Thames sightseeing cruise, with City<br />
Cruises’ boats departing every 40<br />
minutes. The all-weather sightseeing<br />
boats cruise up and down the Thames<br />
every day of the week, all year round,<br />
from four piers in the heart of London:<br />
Westminster, London Eye, Tower, and<br />
Greenwich.<br />
There is a range of ticket types, from<br />
single journeys to a hop-on, hop-off 24,<br />
hour river pass. Whether you’re looking<br />
for the most convenient, picturesque way<br />
to travel between London landmarks or<br />
an all-day experience, this is the most<br />
comfortable passage between the piers.<br />
Boats have café-bars with sandwiches,<br />
snacks, soft drinks, wine, beer and more.<br />
ANNA SKLADMANN NEW EXHIBITION<br />
AT THE GARDEN MUSEUM<br />
Rediscover the beauty of Narcissus<br />
flowers in photographer Anna<br />
Skladmann’s new exhibition, The Man<br />
With The Midas Touch - A Botanical<br />
Index Of Narcissus, showing at the<br />
Garden Museum from 14 February –<br />
1 March. The exhibition will be in the<br />
central ‘Nave’ of the Museum, filling the<br />
building with spring blooms and saying<br />
goodbye to the winter months.<br />
The exhibition is composed of scans<br />
of each flower, created using a technique<br />
Skladmann has developed submerging<br />
the flowers in multiple kinds of liquids<br />
such as milk and water.<br />
<strong>This</strong> unusual technique utilises the<br />
qualities of high definition scanning,<br />
while also employing liquid as a hint to<br />
old methods of photographing and print<br />
making, harking back to botanist and<br />
cyanotype pioneer Anna Atkins, and<br />
inventor of the scanning technique,<br />
Henry Fox Talbot.<br />
The Man with the Midas Touch has<br />
emerged from Skladmann’s interest in<br />
the origins of photography and<br />
questioning its tropes in representing<br />
the beauty of nature.<br />
LONDON STORIES FRIDAY LATE AT<br />
LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM<br />
The Association of Illustrators, in<br />
partnership with London Transport<br />
Museum, are to present a new exhibition<br />
of 100 illustrations from the Poster Prize<br />
for Illustration on the theme of ‘London<br />
Stories’ from 8 February to 14 July.<br />
<strong>This</strong> exhibition, featuring 100<br />
illustrations by artists such as Bill<br />
Walsh, Erica Sturla, Anna Steinberg,<br />
Sarah Perkins and Richard Johnson,<br />
opens with a Friday Late on 8 February<br />
(<strong>19</strong>.00-22.00) and celebrates one of the<br />
world’s greatest cities – London, and<br />
reveals some of the fascinating tales of<br />
London life past and present.<br />
From urban myths, historic events<br />
and remarkable characters, to daily lives<br />
and adventurous animals, the exhibition<br />
offers new perspectives and insights into<br />
the cultural history and heritage of<br />
London. London Stories reveals the<br />
wealth of real and fictional tales and<br />
events inspired by, or having taken place<br />
in, London and embraces the quirky,<br />
amusing and bizarre as well as the day<br />
to day aspects of life in the capital.<br />
From 16-24 February daily, children<br />
can join lively storytime sessions and<br />
get creative in a Make and Take craft<br />
activity.<br />
Ana JaksNotting Hill Carnival.<br />
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The cast of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre.<br />
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG –<br />
NOW EVEN WORSE<br />
The Play That Goes Wrong, the<br />
Olivier Award-winning box office hit, will<br />
have a new cast at the Duchess Theatre<br />
from Tuesday 26 February.<br />
Awarded the 2014 Whatsonstage.com<br />
Best New Comedy, the 2015 Olivier<br />
Award for Best New Comedy and a Tony<br />
award for the Broadway transfer, The<br />
Play That Goes Wrong continues to<br />
delight audiences in the West End. The<br />
remarkable rags-to-riches story shows<br />
no signs of slowing down for a play<br />
which started its life at a London fringe<br />
venue with only four paying customers<br />
at the first performance. Since then, it<br />
has played to an audience of over two<br />
million.<br />
The Play That Goes Wrong is<br />
co-written by Mischief Theatre company<br />
members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer<br />
and Henry Shields. Mischief Theatre was<br />
founded in 2008 by a group of graduates<br />
of The London Academy of Music and<br />
Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began as an<br />
improvised comedy group. Mischief<br />
Photo: Helen Murray.<br />
Theatre performs across the UK and<br />
internationally with improvised and<br />
original scripted work. They are about to<br />
embark on a year long residence at the<br />
Vaudeville Theatre opening in<br />
September 20<strong>19</strong> with Groan Ups – the<br />
first of three new comedies. Their other<br />
production The Comedy About A Bank<br />
Robbery is currently at the Criterion<br />
Theatre and on a national UK tour whilst<br />
The Play That Goes Wrong is also on a<br />
national UK tour and it has recently<br />
completed a two-year run on Broadway.<br />
The 2018-<strong>19</strong> US Tour of The Play<br />
That Goes Wrong opened in September<br />
2018 in Lexington, Kentucky and is<br />
currently playing to sold out audiences<br />
at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto.<br />
The record-breaking Broadway<br />
production closed in January at the<br />
Lyceum Theatre in New York and<br />
re-opens at New World Stages later this<br />
month. The Play That Goes Wrong is<br />
produced in the West End by Kenny Wax<br />
Ltd and Stage Presence Ltd.<br />
Duchess Theatre box office telephone<br />
0330 333 4810.<br />
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT<br />
JAMIE’S NEW CAST<br />
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the<br />
award-winning feel good musical<br />
sensation, has welcomed new cast<br />
members for 20<strong>19</strong>. Layton Williams<br />
plays the title role, Jamie New, joined by<br />
Shane Richie as Hugo/Loco Channelle,<br />
Hayley Tamaddon as Miss Hedge, Sejal<br />
Keshwala as Ray and Sabrina Sandhu as<br />
Pritti Pasha.<br />
With catchy songs by lead singersongwriter<br />
of The Feeling, Dan Gillespie<br />
Sells, and book and lyrics by writer Tom<br />
MacRae, this funny, fabulous musical<br />
has wowed audiences and critics alike.<br />
As well as receiving 5-star reviews,<br />
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie has<br />
won 7 major theatre awards.<br />
The show is also to be made into a<br />
major film by Sheffield based production<br />
company Warp Films completing the<br />
fairy-tale journey from a 16-year-old<br />
approaching a documentary maker to hit<br />
West End Show and now the big screen.<br />
For tickets, telephone the box office<br />
on 0330 333 4809.<br />
Layton Williams in Everybody's Talking<br />
About Jamie.<br />
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Percy, Blessing, Sharon, Emily Lim and the Pericles Company with the Duchess of<br />
Sussex at the National Theatre.<br />
Photo: Emilie Bailey.<br />
DUCHESS OF SUSSEX FIRST VISIT<br />
TO NATIONAL AS ROYAL PATRON<br />
The Duchess of Sussex made her first<br />
official visit to the National Theatre last<br />
week. Earlier this month The Duchess<br />
was announced as Patron of the National<br />
Theatre, one of two Patronages passed<br />
on to her by Her Majesty The Queen.<br />
The Duchess is a strong believer in<br />
using the arts to bring people from<br />
different backgrounds and communities<br />
together.<br />
Launched last year, Public Acts<br />
creates extraordinary acts of theatre and<br />
community. The first Public Acts<br />
production was a new musical<br />
adaptation of Pericles which brought<br />
over 200 people of all ages from across<br />
London together with 6 professional<br />
actors to breathe new life into the<br />
Shakespeare classic in a new musical<br />
version. Her Royal Highness met current<br />
and former apprentices who are working<br />
as technicians in various departments<br />
including carpentry, metalwork and<br />
painting.<br />
The Duchess also heard about the<br />
National reach and impact of the NT’s<br />
work and met with Jenna Omeltschenko,<br />
Touring Partnerships Manager. Jenna<br />
looks after the learning and education<br />
work on the National Theatre’s touring<br />
programme across the UK. She also<br />
recently worked with over 60 schools<br />
across the UK who hosted the schools’<br />
tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog<br />
in the Night-Time which was performed<br />
to nearly 13,000 students.<br />
The Duchess ended her visit by<br />
watching a performance inspired by War<br />
Horse by primary school children from<br />
Edith Neville Primary School from<br />
Camden which was created to mark the<br />
centenary of Armistice Day. As part of<br />
this project, primary schools were<br />
invited to see War Horse at the National<br />
Theatre and, in partnership with the<br />
Imperial War Museum, take part in a<br />
creative programme to enrich children’s<br />
understanding of World War One.<br />
WHEN WE HAVE SUFFICIENTLY<br />
TORTURED EACH OTHER<br />
It’s seven years since Cate Blanchett<br />
last appeared in a London theatre,<br />
starring in Martin Crimp’s translation of<br />
German playwright Botho Strauss’s <strong>19</strong>78<br />
Gross und Klein. Now she’s back in a<br />
new play by Crimp, which sold out (by<br />
oversubscribed ballot) as soon as tickets<br />
were released. Reports of a member of<br />
the audience fainting during previews<br />
added to the interest, but unless you<br />
have a penchant for witnessing other<br />
people’s sexual fantasies on stage, it’s<br />
the performances – rather than the play<br />
itself – which it will have been a pity to<br />
have missed.<br />
Set in a modern suburban double<br />
garage, Crimp’s sexually explicit<br />
‘12 variations on Samuel Richardson’s<br />
Pamela’ (the 1740 epistolary novel in<br />
which a wealthy landowner abducts a<br />
15 year old servant girl) also references<br />
Jean Genet’s The Maids (in which two<br />
housemaids indulge in sadomasochistic<br />
rituals) but there’s little here to really<br />
shock.<br />
A Woman (Blanchett) her mouth<br />
temporarily sealed with black gaffer tape,<br />
sheds her dressing gown, covers her<br />
mousy hair with a bouncy blonde wig<br />
and dons the black and white uniform,<br />
complete with frilly apron, of a maid. So<br />
does the middle-aged Man (Stephen<br />
Dillane) who enters with a quartet of<br />
paid observers (two girls, another<br />
woman and a muscular young man)<br />
silent until summoned to participate in<br />
the couple’s role play.<br />
Initially, it seems that the Man is<br />
completely in charge, with the Woman<br />
held against her will. But over the course<br />
of the various scenes (separated by the<br />
switching on and off of glaring<br />
fluorescent lights briefly dispelling the<br />
chilly gloom) the power balance shifts<br />
back and forth along with exchanges of<br />
male and female clothing.<br />
It’s a moderately interesting<br />
exploration of gender fluidity,<br />
submission and dominance, though for<br />
the Woman to state that she’d ‘rather be<br />
raped than bored’ is surely a step too far.<br />
Still, Katie Mitchell’s precise production<br />
boasts memorable performances from<br />
Dillane (the Man’s assumed power<br />
secured more, perhaps, by his wealth<br />
than his sex) and from a versatile<br />
Blanchett taking control, making<br />
demands and crawling on hands and<br />
knees. And it’s not every day one gets to<br />
see a famous film star having simulated<br />
sex in the back of an Audi – or sporting<br />
a strap-on dildo..<br />
Louise Kingsley<br />
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The London cast of Come From Away.<br />
COME FROM AWAY LONDON<br />
PREMIERE<br />
The Tony Award winning musical,<br />
Come From Away, lands in London this<br />
week for its long-awaited UK premiere at<br />
the Phoenix Theatre.<br />
<strong>This</strong> joyous new musical recounts the<br />
incredible true story of how the residents<br />
of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed the<br />
7,000 passengers of planes from around<br />
the world. Cultures clashed, and nerves<br />
ran high, but as uneasiness turned into<br />
trust, music soared into the night and<br />
gratitude grew into enduring friendships.<br />
On 11 September 2001, the world<br />
stopped. On 12 September, their stories<br />
moved us all.<br />
Come From Away has been<br />
enthusiastically received by audiences<br />
as a reminder of the capacity for human<br />
kindness in even the darkest of times.<br />
Earning widespread critical and<br />
audience acclaim, the multi awardwinning<br />
musical continues sold-out,<br />
record-breaking engagements on<br />
Broadway and in Canada.<br />
Come From Away is produced in the<br />
UK and Ireland by Junkyard Dog<br />
Productions and Smith & Brant<br />
Theatricals.<br />
If you are visiting London, don’t miss<br />
the opening performances.<br />
For tickets, telephone the box office<br />
on 0844 871 7615.<br />
Photo: Matthew Murphy.<br />
GRINGOTTS WIZARDING BANK AT<br />
WARNER BROS. STUDIO TOUR<br />
For the first time ever at Warner Bros.<br />
Studio Tour London – The Making of<br />
Harry Potter, visitors are invited to enter<br />
the set of Gringotts Wizarding Bank as<br />
the Studio Tour unveils its biggest<br />
expansion to date.<br />
From Harry Potter first discovering<br />
Diagon Alley to the famous trio escaping<br />
on a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon in their<br />
quest for a Horcrux, Gringotts Wizarding<br />
Bank played an important role in the<br />
Harry Potter film series. On 6 April,<br />
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London will<br />
unveil a permanent addition allowing<br />
visitors to walk through the wizarding<br />
bank of Gringotts, the Lestrange vault, a<br />
gallery of goblins and so much more.<br />
Lined by towering marble pillars, the<br />
grand banking hall will be decorated<br />
with three magnificent crystal<br />
chandeliers and finished with real brass<br />
leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of<br />
Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will<br />
complete the goblin tellers’ desks as<br />
seen on screen. The Prop-making<br />
Department, led by Pierre Bohanna,<br />
created over 210,000 coins for the final<br />
two films alone.<br />
Gringotts Wizarding Bank is famously<br />
run by goblins. Walking through the<br />
imposing marble columns, visitors will<br />
discover the costumes and prosthetics<br />
belonging to Bogrod, Griphook and<br />
many other goblin bankers. Each<br />
prosthetic mask took weeks to create,<br />
with every hair individually inserted and<br />
veins painstakingly painted by hand. It<br />
took four hours to transform actor<br />
Warwick Davis into Griphook in the<br />
films which included him wearing black<br />
contact lenses and dentures with<br />
extremely sharp teeth to complete the<br />
goblin look.<br />
Entrance to the expansion will be<br />
included in general admission ticket<br />
price.<br />
Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Concept Art.<br />
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PLAYS<br />
RICHARD III<br />
John Haidar directs Tom Mothersdale as<br />
Shakespeare’s most notorious and complex<br />
villain.<br />
ALEXANDRA PALACE<br />
Alexandra Palace Way, N22 (020 7400 1257)<br />
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON<br />
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling<br />
short novel, a haunting dramatic<br />
monologue, captivated readers in 2016. Lucy<br />
Barton is played by three-time Academy Award<br />
and four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney.<br />
ALYS, ALWAYS<br />
A gripping psychological thriller that excavates<br />
the fault line that separates the entitled from the<br />
unentitled. Starring Joanne Froggatt.<br />
BRIDGE THEATRE<br />
One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846)<br />
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION<br />
The acclaimed production of Agatha Christie’s<br />
classic courtroom play has captured the<br />
imagination of audiences inside the unique<br />
setting of County Hall’s ornate Chamber on<br />
the South Bank.<br />
COUNTY HALL<br />
South Bank, SE1 (0844 815 7141)<br />
THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY<br />
One enormous diamond, eight incompetent<br />
crooks and a snoozing security guard. What<br />
could possibly go right?<br />
CRITERION THEATRE<br />
Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810)<br />
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG<br />
A Polytechnic amateur drama group are<br />
putting on a <strong>19</strong>20s murder mystery and<br />
everything that can go wrong... does!<br />
DUCHESS THEATRE<br />
Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)<br />
HOME, I’M DARLING<br />
The National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd’s<br />
critically acclaimed co-production of a new<br />
play by Laura Wade, directed by Theatre<br />
Clwyd Artistic Director Tamara Harvey.<br />
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE<br />
St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552)<br />
THE WOMAN IN BLACK<br />
An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural<br />
community, a gothic house and a misty marsh<br />
are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story.<br />
FORTUNE THEATRE<br />
Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626)<br />
PINTER AT THE PINTER<br />
All twenty short plays written by the greatest<br />
British playwright of the 20th Century. They<br />
have never before been performed together.<br />
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE<br />
Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627)<br />
Royal National Theatre<br />
Plays in repertory<br />
OLIVIER THEATRE<br />
FOLLIES<br />
After a sold-out run, winner of the Olivier<br />
Award for Best Musical Revival, returns to the<br />
National Theatre. Stephen Sondheim’s<br />
legendary musical includes such classic<br />
songs as Broadway Baby.<br />
LYTTELTON THEATRE<br />
TARTUFFE<br />
A ferocious new version of Molière’s comic<br />
masterpiece. A scalpel-sharp comedy looking<br />
at the lengths we go to find meaning – and<br />
what happens when we find chaos instead.<br />
DORFMAN THEATRE<br />
WHEN WE HAVE SUFFICIENTLY<br />
TORTURED EACH OTHER<br />
Using Samuel Richardson’s novel, Pamela,,<br />
six characters act out a dangerous game of<br />
sexual domination and resistance. Cate<br />
Blanchett makes her National Theatre debut.<br />
THE WINTER’S TALE<br />
Exciting version of Shakespeare's play is the<br />
perfect introduction to Shakespeare for<br />
younger audiences.<br />
NATIONAL THEATRE<br />
South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)<br />
THE WIDER EARTH<br />
European premiere of award-winning drama<br />
about the story of a young Charles Darwin<br />
and one voyage which changed his life.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM<br />
Cromwell Road, SW7 (0844 815 7141)<br />
ALL ABOUT EVE<br />
Based on the <strong>19</strong>50 Academy Award-winning<br />
film, Gillian Anderson stars as Margo<br />
Channing. Director Ivo van Hove explores our<br />
fascination with celebrity, youth and identity.<br />
NOEL COWARD THEATRE<br />
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140)<br />
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED<br />
CHILD PARTS I & II<br />
Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise<br />
written by Jack Thorne, based on an original<br />
story by J.K Rowling.<br />
PALACE THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813)<br />
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG<br />
IN THE NIGHT-TIME<br />
Acclaimed National Theatre production returns<br />
to the West End. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards,<br />
the play is based on Mark Haddon’s multiaward<br />
winning and best selling novel.<br />
PICCADILLY THEATRE<br />
Denman Street, W1 (020 7492 1566)<br />
FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE<br />
Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever<br />
comedy series, this 2 hour interactive<br />
production is set in a restaurant where you the<br />
audience are the diners.<br />
RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN<br />
Bloomsbury Street, (0845 1544 145)<br />
THE MOUSETRAP<br />
Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest<br />
running play of its kind in the history of<br />
British theatre.<br />
ST MARTIN’S THEATRE<br />
West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)<br />
TRUE WEST<br />
Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn star as<br />
warring brothers Austin and Lee in the West<br />
End Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam<br />
Shepard’s ferociously funny, modern classic.<br />
VAUDEVILLE THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257)<br />
THE PRICE<br />
David Suchet delivers a comic tour de force<br />
as a silver-tongued 90 year old furniture<br />
dealer in Arthur Miller’s masterpiece.<br />
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE<br />
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120)<br />
Poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko<br />
have joined forces to write and perform<br />
their new show for children (5+) and<br />
families, Mole & Gecko: The Show, an<br />
interactive rap musical with songs that the<br />
audience help create. At the Half Moon<br />
Theatre on 16 February. 020 7709 8900.<br />
Mole & Gecko. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.<br />
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MUSICALS<br />
WAITRESS<br />
Features original music and lyrics by 6-time<br />
Grammy® nominee Sara Bareilles, a book by<br />
screenwriter Jessie Nelson and direction by<br />
Tony Award® winner Diane Paulus.<br />
ADELPHI THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060)<br />
TINA<br />
New stage musical reveals the untold story of<br />
Tina Turner, a woman who dared to defy the<br />
bounds of her age, gender and race.<br />
ALDWYCH THEATRE<br />
The Aldwych, WC2 (0845 2007981)<br />
SONGS FOR NOBODIES<br />
Bernadette Robinson shifts from the smoky<br />
blues of Billie Holiday to the thrilling soprano of<br />
Maria Callas, via Garland, Cline and Piaf.<br />
AMBASSADORS THEATRE<br />
West Street, WC2 (020 7395 5405)<br />
WICKED<br />
Hit Broadway story of how a clever,<br />
misunderstood girl with emerald green skin<br />
and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn<br />
into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda<br />
the Good Witch in the Land of Oz.<br />
APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE<br />
Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000)<br />
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE<br />
New feel good musical – supported by his<br />
mum and friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice,<br />
beats the bullies and steps into the spotlight.<br />
APOLLO THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4809)<br />
SIX THE MUSICAL<br />
Tudor Queens meet Pop Princesses in a<br />
musical retelling of the six wives of Henry<br />
VIII. A celebration of sisterly sass-itude,<br />
powered by an all-female band.<br />
ARTS THEATRE<br />
Great Newport Street, WC2 (020 7836 8463)<br />
MATILDA<br />
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare<br />
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,<br />
directed by Matthew Warchus.<br />
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE<br />
Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110)<br />
RIP IT UP<br />
Strictly Come Dancing’s champions are back<br />
with the latest song and dance instalment, this<br />
time bringing the swinging sixties straight to<br />
the 21st century.<br />
GARRICK THEATRE<br />
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0330 333 4811)<br />
COMPANY<br />
Marianne Elliott directs Stephen Sondheim and<br />
George Furth’s multi-award winning musical<br />
comedy about life, love and marriage.<br />
GIELGUD THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0844 482 5130)<br />
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA<br />
Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd<br />
Webber, set in Paris opera house where a<br />
deformed phantom stalks his prey.<br />
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE<br />
Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707)<br />
THE LION KING<br />
Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated<br />
film is transformed into a spectacular stage<br />
musical, a superb evening of visual delight.<br />
LYCEUM THEATRE<br />
Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000)<br />
THRILLER – LIVE<br />
High octane show celebrating the career of the<br />
King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Over two hours<br />
of the non-stop hit songs that marked his<br />
legendary live performances.<br />
LYRIC THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812)<br />
SCHOOL OF ROCK<br />
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical with<br />
lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian<br />
Fellowes, adapted from the film.<br />
GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE<br />
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
MAMMA MIA!<br />
Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set<br />
around the story of a mother and daughter on<br />
the eve of the daughter’s wedding.<br />
NOVELLO THEATRE<br />
Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170)<br />
CIRQUE ELOIZE<br />
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Canadian<br />
contemporary circus crew open the doors to<br />
their new show, Hotel.<br />
PEACOCK THEATRE<br />
Portugal Street, WC2 (020 7863 8222)<br />
COME FROM AWAY<br />
UK Premiere of the Tony Award-winning<br />
musical which tells the remarkable true story<br />
of 7,000 stranded air passengers in the wake<br />
of 9/11, and the small town in Newfoundland<br />
that welcomed them.<br />
PHOENIX THEATRE<br />
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 871 7627)<br />
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE<br />
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New<br />
Musical,is an imaginative and moving story of<br />
strength, revolution and hope. Until 2 March.<br />
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE<br />
Northumberland Ave, WC2 (0844 871 7631)<br />
What Now? and What Next? at Southbank<br />
Centre on 8 & 9 March is every feminist’s<br />
dream double bill. A one-off event led by<br />
WOW’s founder Jude Kelly, it marks the<br />
launch of The WOW Foundation, an<br />
independent charitable organisation with<br />
national and global reach.<br />
ALADDIN<br />
The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling<br />
life onstage by Disney, featuring all the songs<br />
from the Academy Award winning score.<br />
PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE<br />
Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151)<br />
LES MISERABLES<br />
A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s<br />
epic novel about an escaped convict’s<br />
search for redemption in Revolutionary France.<br />
QUEEN’S THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0844 482 5160)<br />
9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL<br />
Based on the much loved movie and making its<br />
West End debut, Dolly Parton’s musical comes<br />
to London for a strictly limited season.<br />
SAVOY THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL<br />
Featuring all the much loved classics from<br />
Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5,<br />
the show tells the story behind the hits.<br />
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES<br />
The landmark, record-breaking and top-rated<br />
television series written by the late, great John<br />
Sullivan, becomes a brand-new, home-grown<br />
British musical.<br />
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET<br />
Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800)<br />
HAMILTON<br />
Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning<br />
musical, based on one of America’s Founding<br />
Father, Alexander Hamilton.<br />
VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE<br />
Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000)<br />
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A ROMANTIC DINING EXPERIENCE<br />
ON BUSTRONOME<br />
With just over a week to go until the<br />
most romantic night of the year, many<br />
lovers out there might be looking for<br />
something a bit different for woo their<br />
partner. Step up Bustronome, a fine<br />
dining experience on the top deck of a<br />
specially-fitted luxury bus. Bustronome<br />
takes patrons on a 3 hour tour round the<br />
famous sights and lights of London<br />
whilst serving a six-course menu with<br />
wine pairing.<br />
Impress your guest with knowledge<br />
gleaned from the specially curated audio<br />
pens on board. Simply use the magnetic<br />
table mat to show you the way. Or use<br />
the backdrop of beautiful London to pop<br />
the question and receive a bottle of fizz<br />
to celebrate (ring must be present!).<br />
Bustronome is a unique concept to<br />
London but actually started life in Paris<br />
three years ago. In a nutshell the<br />
unrivalled combination between beauty<br />
and leisure on board this luxury busrestaurant<br />
will provide an extraordinary<br />
experience ready to awaken your senses.<br />
Simply put, passengers on board will<br />
discover the most beautiful views of<br />
London while enjoying the best of its<br />
gastronomy, whatever the weather.<br />
Guests are invited to use the audio<br />
pens to touch landmarks on map menus<br />
to learn unknown facts about well-known<br />
points of interest around London. It's a<br />
great way to get to know London for<br />
domestic and international visitors.<br />
The Valentine’s menu includes<br />
butternut velouté with ginger and saffron<br />
cream; open lobster ravioli with candied<br />
lemon, fennel crisps and lobster sauce;<br />
turbot with squeezed vegetable and<br />
butter sage froth; Tournedos Rossini<br />
with pomme Pont Neuf Neufchâtel; rose<br />
and lychee macaroon.<br />
To make a reservation for Valentine’s<br />
Day, visit www.bustronome.com/<strong>london</strong><br />
THE WORLD’S MOST SUSTAINABLE<br />
COCKTAIL?<br />
What could be the world's most<br />
sustainable cocktail has been created by<br />
Bar Manager Marco Sangion and his<br />
team at Quaglino's Bar in Mayfair.<br />
The serve is a product of the team's<br />
collective dedication to sustainable bar<br />
work, a passion project that has been<br />
bubbling away behind the scenes since<br />
the launch of the 'A Science of<br />
Sustainability' cocktail list in September.<br />
The base of the cocktail is an organic<br />
vodka infused with the peel of purple<br />
carrots used as a side dish in the<br />
restaurant, which adds a distinct<br />
earthiness to the distill. <strong>This</strong> is mixed<br />
with homemade Jasmine milk, made by<br />
overcooking a small handful of Jasmine<br />
rice, which is then blended to make a<br />
creamy solution similar to milk. The<br />
vessel for this drink is homemade pasta.<br />
Guests are encouraged to eat it once<br />
they've finished the drink or, if they're<br />
feeling particularly ravenous or risky,<br />
take a bite as you sip.<br />
The cocktail is available at Quaglino's<br />
Bar and will be served at the Story of<br />
Sustainability Supper Club on 6 March.<br />
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