Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, Barbican, London 51.518834 51.518834
25th April 2010Join conductor Andre Previn, soprano Barbara Bonney and the London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall, as they perform a selection of classical works by Copland, Knoxville and Strauss, including Previn’s own “Miss Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid”.Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith, London 51.492895 51.492895
25th April 2010You may have seen Irish comic Ed Byrne on BBC2′s “Mock the Week”, but here’s your chance to catch him headlining the Lyric Hammersmith’s Comedy Night — hosted by Richard Herring.Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, Kensington, London 51.501267 51.501267
25th April 2010Help John Sergeant celebrate St. George’s Day with an afternoon of rousing classics. Pieces will include “Rule Britannia”, “We’ll Meet Again”, “Land of Hope and Glory”, Elgar’s “Nimrod”, Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” and “The Dambuster’s March”. The programme will also include readings from “Henry V” and the poems of Wordsworth and Betjeman.Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Southbank, London 51.506556 51.506556
25th April 2010You can hear the Brass Ensemble from St. Petersburg’s famous Mariinsky Theatre in London for the very first time, performing Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Southbank, London 51.506556 51.506556
25th April 2010It’s London Marathon time again! The London Marathon will take place on the 25th April. Every year 30,000 runners flood the capital to run the 26.2 miles between Greenwich Park and The Mall. International athletes mingle with charity fun-runners dressed up as spaceships and postboxes, to the sound of brass bands and thumping feet.O2 Arena (Millennium Dome), Drawdock Road, North Greenwich, London 51.502852 51.502852
25th, 26th and 28th April 2010Whitney Houston has returned from the doldrums with a brand-new chart-topping album “I Look To You”, and now she has announced a series of European dates to support it. The London leg will take place at the O2 Arena in April.Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Wood Green, London 51.594584 51.594584
25th April 2010The Antiques and Art Deco Fair at Alexandra Palace is London’s premier antiques event, with over 600 collectors stands and complimentary valuations and appraisals of your household antiques.Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon Street, Piccadilly Circus, London 51.50998 51.50998
25th April 2010TV’s Paul Merton will be joining Josie Lawrence at the Comedy Store Players for a night of comedy improvisation. Other comedians include Andy Smart, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch and Niall Ashdown.Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, West Brompton, London 51.48498 51.48498
25th April 2010This guided tour includes both the Cemetery and the Chapel, with informed commentary on some of the memorials, symbols, wildlife, flora and fauna in the grounds. You will also hear some stories about the interesting people buried there.Young Vic, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London 51.503276 51.503276
24th April – 8th May 2010Co-written by WH Auden and Chester Kallman, and set to music by composer Hans Werner Henze, “Elegy for Young Lovers” offers a savagely witty exposé of the creative ego and its insatiable need to feed off all around it.Theatre Royal Haymarket, Haymarket, St. James’s, London 51.50883 51.50883
23rd April – 18th December 2010The Theatre Royal is delighted to announce that Tamzin Outhwaite will star as Charity Hope Valentine in the acclaimed musical “Sweet Charity”, a gullible and guileless lady who always seems to give her heart and her dreams to the wrong man.