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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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