Ronnie Scott’s, 47 Frith Street, Soho, London 51.513406 51.513406
22nd – 24th February 2010British singer Mica Paris has clocked up twenty-two years in the business, and the UK’s very own Soul Queen is back and ready to wow us again with songs from her latest album, “Born Again”. You can catch her for three nights at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club.Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, London 51.508372 51.508372
22nd February 2010Fortnum & Mason is delighted to invite you to a dinner to launch Vince Cable’s new memoir, “Free Radical: A Memoir”. The night will start with a Champagne Reception in the elegant St. James’s lounge, followed by dinner and an after-dinner address by Vince Cable.Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, Southbank, London 51.505733 51.505733
22nd February 2010Join the great Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman at the Royal Festival Hall, as he performs the first of two special Chopin birthday concerts. Works will include the composer’s Piano Sonata, Nos 2 and 3.National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin’s Place, London 51.509256 51.509256
18th February – 6th June 2010Irving Penn was one of the world’s great photographers. This exhibition focuses specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures from the last seventy years – including over 120 silver and platinum prints, ranging from his portraits for Vogue to some of his last work at the turn of the century.Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, The Strand, London 51.510732 51.510732
18th February – 16th May 2010Michelangelo’s “Dream of Human Life” is one of the Courtauld Gallery’s greatest art treasures. It was painted at the height of the artist’s career during the Italian Renaissance, and exemplifies his unrivalled skill and extraordinary powers of invention.Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, Southbank, London 51.506998 51.506998
16th – 27th February 2010The Cottesloe Theatre will be putting on a production of Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, “Twelfth Night”. It tells the story of shipwrecked Viola disguising herself as a man, only for Olivia to fall in love with his/her charms. Luckily Viola has a twin brother who turns up in the nick of time to pass himself off as him/her.Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, Westminster, London 51.50646 51.50646
15th February – 6th March 2010“Madness In Valencia” is an hilarious pageant of love, madness and mistaken identity. It tells the story of Floriano, who kills a Prince and flees to Valencia’s famed asylum. There he finds himself locked up with fools, physicians, and Erifilam — hiding inside to escape an arranged marriage.Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London 51.512108 51.512108
11th February – 18th May 2010Lesley Sharp, Ian Glen, Malcolm Storry and Harry Treadaway will be starring in a new production of Ibsen’s “Ghosts”, at the Duchess Theatre.Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London 51.513959 51.513959
11th February – 27th March 2010“Serenading Louie” is Lanford Wilson’s timeless portrait of two suburban American couples struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they desperately try to make sense of it all.Tate Modern, Bankside, London 51.507467 51.507467
10th February – 3rd May 2010Tate Modern will be celebrating one of the most powerful American artists of his generation, in “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective”. With an emphasis on his uniquely lyrical paintings of the 1940s, the exhibition will examine his extraordinary contribution to the world of Abstract Expressionism.Tate Modern, Bankside, London 51.507467 51.507467
4th February – 16th May 2010Tate Modern presents the first major UK exhibition devoted to the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg. Van Doesburg played a pivotal role in mid-century Modernism, and there will be over 80 different artists on display including works by Alexander Archipenko, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondrian.