New Tue 16th Mar
This page lists some of the new events starting today.
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click here| Stewart Lee at The Basement |
| | Stewart Lee
41st Best Stand-Up Ever
A Channel 4 survey in March named Stewart (Fist Of Fun, Jerry Springer The Opera) the 41st best stand-up ever. If you only see fifty comedians in your lifetime, make him your 41st.
"Lee is pushing the form like nobody else. Awkward, thrilling stuff."
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| Pole Dance Beginner Course at Zoo Bar |
 | | After five years of running pole dancing lessons, Polestars pole dancing courses are the best and most comprehensive in the country. Our teachers are chosen not only for their skills in pole dancing, but their ability to explain and demonstrate the moves clearly as well as their vibrant and bubbl... | |
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| Mrs Warren's Profession at Comedy Theatre |
 | | What is Mrs Warren's profession?
Her daughter, Vivie, has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education, a generous monthly allowance and now has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that all this privilege ... | |
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| Why? at Heaven |
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| Vagina Monologues at New Players Theatre |
 | | The Vagina Monologues returns to Leeds for 3 performances only starring Lesley Joseph, Wendi Peters, Nikki Sanderson and Cathy Tyson.
Based on author Eve Ensler's 'Vagina Interviews' conducted with women from all around the world, this hilariously witty and moving collection of tales gives voi... | |
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| Burlesque Beginners Course at MyHotel Bloomsbury |
 | | Polestars burlesque will teach you to release you sexiness and use your femininity in to charm and tease! Guaranteed to be a giggle, burlesque not only helps you to build confidence but it will change the way you see your body too. Polestars burlesque will push your comfort zone and leave feeling... | |
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| Skills Exchange: The Producers Panel at Queens Head |
 | | Artists Anonymous presents
*Skills Exchange: The Producers Panel*
Welcome to the first Skills Exchange of 2010!
Have you ever wondered how to get a producer involved in your projects? What exactly is a producers role in a project? Do you want to become a producer your self? This is you... | Charlie Swallow
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| Blood Wedding at Bridewell Theatre |
 | | By Federico Garcia Lorca
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Lara Muth
The Groom has proposed. The gifts are exchanged. The Bride longs for the wedding night. But what of the Horseman who loved her first?
Lorca wrote his classic romantic tragedy in 1932, after fellow artist Salvador Dali ... | Evan Regueira
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| Audio Bullys at Scala |
 | | Audio Bullys burst onto the scene back in 2003 with their debut album 'Ego War', hailed as one of the critical albums to reignite a fading state of U.K dance music. Five years on with their second album under their belt, and their groundbreaking sound is still making waves in the underground danc... | |
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| Fun Lovin' Criminals at KOKO |
| | The Fun Lovin' Criminals are an alternative rap / alternative rock group from New York City, United States. Their music is a blend of many styles, most notably hip hop, rock, blues, and jazz, and their songs often deal with everyday life in New York City and most big cities: organized crime, drug... | |
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| Three Good Wives at Little Angel |
 | | US based company Inkfish return to Little Angel with their original puppet theater piece that takes contemporary US and UK military wives' stories and weaves them with mytho-historic heroines: Penelope from Homer's Odyssey, Mandodari from the Ramayana, and Scheherazade from The Arabian Nights. Th... | Anna-Maria Nabirye
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| Foul Tide at Courtyard Theatre |
 | | FOUL TIDE by William Stanton
Directed By June Abbott
Foul Tide is based loosely on events that took place in a small fishing community in South Devon between 1897 and 1917. In the shadow of the First World War, the play brings into sharp focus the harsh realities for a traditional community c... | Martyn Hill
Olivia Matthews
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| Jonny Berliner's Front Room at Roundhouse |
 | | Following the success of our first session last season, the JCC Front Room returns - this time hosted by rising singer songwriter Jonny Berliner at the Roundhouse.
Jonny Berliner has been gigging since 2000 and has notched up many hundreds of performances across the UK and the world. He relea... | |
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| Antonio Forcione & Adriano Adewale at Vortex |
| | Hailed as the 'Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar', multi-award-winning Forcione is considered one of the most charismatic and inventive performers in Europe. With Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale the duo take inspiration from Zimbabwe, Jamaica and Spain. | |
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| Houston, We Have A Problem / Come As U R at Landor Theatre |
 | | Houston, we have a problem...
David returns home from a business trip with a surprise for his mother....a wife. But Dora is not best pleased with her son's choice.
Can David convince his mother that Gemma is the one?
And will Dora find space in her heart to accept her?
Come as... | Pete Picton
Lynne O'Sullivan
Tim Gambrell
Caroline Langston
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| Hanley Arts Show at Lauderdale House |
| | The show will feature strong original paitings in all media, from charcoal to oils, and on all subjects, from landscape to abstract.
Please phone Lauderdale House for weekend opening times | |
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| The way of the world at Barons Court |
 | | "THE WAY OF THE WORLD" by William Congreve
This entertaining play is about money, sex, power, appearances, deception, and finally, love. Mirabell and Millamant love each other, but they endlessly deceive other people, and each other, in order to achieve that love.
A comedy of elegance, c... | Dan Young
David Phipps-Davis
Andrew Futaishi
Grace Rowe
Bethan Clark
Daphne Alexander
Jenny Perry
Joe Cronin
Milanka Brooks
Nathan Nolan
Paul Isaacs
Philip Mansfield
Robert Pearce
Sarah Humphreys
Sophie Bickerstaff
Viv Creegor
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| Blavatsky's Tower at Brockley Jack Theatre |
 | | Simon James Collier & Fallen Angel Theatre
in association with Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
present
Blavatsky's Tower
By Moira Buffini
Directed by Chris Loveless
'A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.' Time Out
'A truly remarkable ... | |
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| Darwin in Malibu at South London Theatre |
 | | Malibu, California. The present. Charles Darwin has wound up in a beach house overlooking the Pacific with a girl young enough to be his daughter. One hundred and forty-five years have passed since the publication of The Origin of Species, and over a hundred and twenty years since Darwin's own de... | |
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| We'll Meet Again at Elgiva Theatre |
 | | Audience's can relive the spirit of the Forties in a wonderful afternoon performance of Hits from the Blitz, with lots of singalong tunes that will bring back warm memories.
The celebration show pay's tribute to the legendary RADIO stars of the war years, Vera Lynn, Donald Peers, Gracie Fields, ... | |
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| Portico Quartet at South Hill Park |
 | | The Portico Quartet are a fresh, uncliched re-synthesis and reinvention of music that's both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future.
With largely acoustic resources - percussion, bass and the now legendary Hang - they have conjured and refined a group signatu... | |
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| Absent Friends at The Haymarket |
 | | Past and present collide at the tea party from hell.
Five old friends rally round to support their mutual friend Colin after the sudden death of his fiance. Organising a tea party to welcome him back proves to be the trigger for unresolved tensions among the group to resurface with a vengeance... | |
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| Richard Alston Dance Company at Brighton Dome |
 | | To Dance and Skylark
Light Flooding into Darkened
Rooms
Overdrive
Having recently celebrated 40 years of making dance, Richard Alston returns with an exquisite evening of classic and contemporary repertoire.
Martin Lawrance's To Dance and Skylark (2009) is a celebration of Bach's colourf... | |
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| Jimmy Carr - Rapier Wit at New Theatre Oxford |
 | | A heady mix of artistic integrity, loyalty and avarice has put Jimmy back on the road.
If you only see one comedy show this year… what's the matter with you? Get out more.
A 'rapier' is the long sword of a gentleman.
'Rapier wit' is defined as clever, quick, intelligent humour.
Please note,... | |
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| Ronan Keating at New Theatre Oxford |
 | | Ronan will be taking to the stage in February and March 2010 on a UK tour to showcase classic tracks from his album 'Songs For My Mother' released in March this year as well as performing some of his greatest hits.
Supported by Liz McClarnon (Atomic Kitten). | |
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| The Ministry of Fear at Oxford Playhouse |
| | With a powerful whiff of Hitchcock and echoes of film noir classic The Third Man, The Ministry of Fear is both a taut espionage thriller and unnerving portrait of a mind in freefall. Renowned for creating exciting and imaginative work, Theatre Alibi brings its unique style to Graham Greene's surr... | |
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| Henry IV at OFS Studio |
 | | A new adaptation of Shakespeare's great history plays - two and a half hours of fast-paced action. Kings and nobles, rogues and vagabonds, princes and paupers all collide in a performance of energy and vitality. Following the huge success of their production of 'The History Boys', Oxford Triptych... | |
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| Play On. A play by Rick Abbott at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre Trust |
 | | The actors are squabbling, the tech goes awry, the author keeps rewriting the script! A recipe for a hit? Definitely not, but it is a recipe for sidesplitting belly laughs! Rick Abbott's hilarious comedy about the trials and tribulations of an amateur drama group rehearsing and performing a murde... | |
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| Lupen Crook at The Cellars |
| | lupen crookMusic - GeneralFor more details please visit: http://www.wegottickets.com/af/34/event/29347
Please see www.electroacousticclub.com or www.myspace.com/electroacousticclub for more information. | |
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| Zebrahead at Talking Heads |
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Plus Support TBA(Live Punk/Ska/Rock Show)Bring ID for AlcoholFree Entry to DJ Night in The Furnace after the show for over 18's | |
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| An Education (12) at Lymington Community Centre |
| | Coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is an intelligent young woman on the brink of her 17th birthday, destined for a promising yet somewhat narrow future at Oxford University and ... | |
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| Burlesque Course at Britannia Hotel |
 | | Polestars burlesque will teach you to release you sexiness and use your femininity in to charm and tease! Guaranteed to be a giggle, burlesque not only helps you to build confidence but it will change the way you see your body too. Polestars burlesque will push your comfort zone and leave feeling... | |
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| Pole Dance Taster at O Bar |
 | | Polestars is the UK's largest independent alternative fitness school, teaching women from all walks of life how to dance for fun and fitness. Since their launch in 2002, Polestars have taught over 60,000 women through their courses and hen parties.
A one off taster session is the perfect way t... | |
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| Men of the World at Swan |
 | | Men of the World
by John Godber
Have you ever been on a coach holiday or just a day trip and wondered what the jovial coach driver actually thought of you and your fellow passengers?
In the style of Bouncers and Shakers, John Godber reveals all in the shape od Stick, Larry and Frank, three... | |
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| sinfonia ViVA at The Royal Centre |
| | Andre de Ridder conductor
Freddy Kempf piano
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Schumann Piano Concerto
Meredith Fringeflower
Beethoven Symphony No.2 | |
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| Once A Catholic at Brewhouse Arts Centre |
 | | Once a Catholic - always a Catholic! Or so they'd have us believe... But Mary O'Malley's hilarious comedy of life in a 1950s London convent school puts that claim on the line.
The play follows the exploits of class 5a during their O Levels. The girls - including innocent Mary Mooney, saucy Mar... | |
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| The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Arena Theatre |
 | | by Martin McDonagh
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the sardonic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative, ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a ... | |
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| TSFD Collective at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama |
 | | An evening of sonic installations, cameos and audio vignettes with current RWCMD Creative Music Technology Master's student Edward Millington who is specializing in installation and intermedia.
Venue: Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama | |
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| Wuthering Heights at Lyceum |
 | | Passionate and obsessive, Cathy and Heathcliff's love is as unruly and dangerous as the Yorkshire moors surrounding them. Inseparable as children, their affection deepens into a devastating force that even death cannot destroy.
With an original score by celebrated composer Claude-Michel Schön... | |
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| Surface Unsigned North Stage 1 16/03/10 at Jabez Clegg |
 | | Band Line Up; DIABOLISS, HAYABUSA, THE WRITERS, THE PRETTY SILOUETTES, JOKERZ, LAVELLION, STONE COLD SOBER.
Doors Open 19:00, 18+
Please note: Times and line-ups are subject to change. We therefore recommend arriving early. Please respect age restrictions. Please bring ID.
For further in... | |
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| The Laughter Party at Babbacombe |
 | | All you need for a party will be right here at the BABBACOMBE THEATRE with a superb new show for 2010, THE LAUGHTER PARTY.
We have fabulous lighting, great music, stunning costumes with feathers masks and lots of sparkle, gorgeous girls, handsome men, magical illusions and to top all that load... | |
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| Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in his D... at Theatre Royal |
 | | Adapted for the stage by Ben Power and Tim Carroll
Directed by Tim Carroll
Spike Milligan's celebrated war memoirs take to the road once more in this gloriously absurd and exuberant hit comedy which has had both audiences and critics in stitches.
High comedy and tragedy collide, as we foll... | |
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| Hansel & gretel at Everyman |
| | KNEEHIGH THEATRE AND BRISTOL OLD VIC PRESENT
HANSEL & GRETEL by Carl Grose
16 March - 3 April at 19:30 pm
A Wonder Tale
Hungry and alone in the forest, Hansel and Gretel are armed with their very last slice of bread. Will they eat to survive, or
leave
a
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| The Colour of Nonsense by Forkbeard Fantasy at Dukes Theatre |
 | | Combining Forkbeard's famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish storylines The Colour of Nonsense is a comedy thriller which takes us on a journey through the shifting borderlands between sense and nonsense, burrowing into the puzzle of why we see the way we see.
The Colour of Nonsense... | |
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| Impressionistic Iridescence at Ramshorn Theatre |
| | Pianist Roman Rudnytsky showcases the evocative harmonies of musical impressionism in selected works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
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Tuesday Lunchtime Music | |
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| Strictly Come Dancing's Brian Fortuna & Kristin... at Millennium Forum |
 | | Two of the professional dancing stars of BBC TV's 'Strictly Come Dancing', Brian Fortuna and Kristina Rihanoff bring their amazing new show which will include dancing demonstrations and exhibitions; a question & answer session; workshops with audience participation and much, much more! So, get ou... | |
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| Cafe Scientifique with Cheryl Ashworth at Woodend Barn Arts Centre |
 | | Celebrating National Science and Engineering Week 2010, we continue our Cafe Scientifique Aberdeenshire series with Professor Cheryl Ashworth of the Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research centres on factors affecting the quality... | |
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