Three days of multimedia japes in the Royal Opera House sponsored by Time Out: there's dance classes, backstage tours, several cabaret acts, video art, a Twitter opera, fashion shows a 'vogue' party and several disco dancing lessons.
It seems the original idea of opening up the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet's work and workspace to a youth audience has been slightly diluted by Time Out's obsession with disco and cabaret.
However, it is free, and worth going along just for the cool backstage view of this incredible place.
Robert Carson stages Verdi's comic masterpiece in the 1950s when England's high society have a cad and a romance to deal with and a great deal of kerfuffle to get through. Oh, and a horse to march across...
Mind the Map (yep, they went there) is an exhibition inspired by the famous tube map. There's work on show by, among others, Simon Patterson, Stephen Walter and Susan Stockwell. Until 28.10.12.
Poor Matilda has a bit of a rough deal, being ignored and neglected by her parents and suffering under the tyranny of a sadistic headteacher at school. But Matilda is no ordinary little girl, as everyone...
A triptych of plays from one of the few political but non-issue writers, Robert Holman. Holman looks at the emotional landscape of ordinary people and in these three short stories, he gives them extraordinary...
War Horse has to be the most successful production by the National Theatre in living memory. Since opening in 2007 it has scooped the Olivier, Evening Standard and the Critics Circle awards and it now...
Classic Agatha Christie murder mystery which opened in London in 1952 and has been running continuously ever since. After more than 20,000 performances the crowds are still flocking to discover who the...
In David Edgar's taut play about the creation of the King James bible in 1610 sees a group of 54 clerics translating scripture. We meet ghosts and royalty and encounter lots of acronyms and discussion...
Rarely do audiences talk about the plot of Gershwin's Crazy for you, probably because it's not that important when you've got songs like ?I Got Rhythm?, ?Someone To Watch Over Me?, ?Embraceable You? and...
Michael Frayn's thoroughly silly romantic romp was dusted off in grand style at The Old Vic last year and now the production transfers to the West End's Novello Theatre. Mr Frayn, author of Headlong and...
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