Putting arts and culture centre stage at UK City Of Culture, Coventry is welcoming welcoming audiences from across the city and the nation to visit. Moving into the second half of their UK City of Culture year, the Spring line-up has been announced. Here are just a few highlights. From 19th – 26th February, an immersive […]
Ready Steady Bake at The Big London Bake East
February 1, 2022 by
For any budding bakers and those who love a cocktail, we have some exciting news. From the 24th February 2022, the UK’s ‘home of baking’, The Big London Bake, is expanding to East London, with the launch of their third baking tent The Big London Bake East, in Haggerston, with a surprise entrance to a cake-themed […]
Discovery of a Work by the Great British Sculptor Henry Moore
January 31, 2022 by
If like us, you are followers of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and Fake or Fortune, then you’ll enjoy this… A discovery of a work by the great British sculptor Henry Moore, titled Mother and Child stood unidentified on a mantlepiece for years and has recently been authenticated by auctioneer Dreweatts’ specialist Francesca Witham and The Henry Moore […]
Obituary: John Rendall The Man With The Heart of a Lion
January 26, 2022 by
Things got a lot more fun in Heaven with the passing of the lion of a man, John Rendall. When we last saw John in December 2021 he’d been battling the debilitating side effects of Covid but was still giving his all to the Chelsea Theatre which he’d helped establish. They were putting on Juliet […]
Top 10 Happiest Musical Hits to Cure Your Winter Blues
January 25, 2022 by
Feeling Frozen? Can’t pay the Rent? Or fancy Orlando over Uganda? Then cure those winter blues with modern musical theatre hits in ‘happy’ keys and chords. The major F, known as the ‘happiness key’, is linked to emotions of victory, triumph and relief, the major C is linked to positivity – both common in musical theatre. […]
Planting the Piet Oudolf Way from Learning with Experts
January 24, 2022 by
If, like us, you’ve been lucky enough to do some online learning during the pandemic, and been avidly watching Gardener’s World, then you’ll be pleased to read about this new online course by internationally famous Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. Influential Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf is considered by many to be one of the […]
Peaky Blinders and Rambert: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
January 18, 2022 by
A new dance theatre event, from the global hit television series Peaky Blinders, will have its world premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome, where it runs from 27 September to 2 October and then moves to London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre (12 October – 6 November) before embarking on a 2023 tour. Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of […]
Review: The Shark Is Broken West End Theatre London
January 17, 2022 by
This unsinkable play is a master class in writing and acting. The three lead actors shooting blockbuster “Jaws” in 1974 are stuck on a boat off Martha’s Vineyard while the unreliable mechanical shark is being repaired. They have time to kill on board the Orca and almost each other. Projected lapping waves, and clouds move […]
The Hidden Gems of Our Capital: London’s Best Kept Secrets
January 13, 2022 by
There is no place like London. It has everything you could wish for: museums, monuments, parks, shops, and stylish locals! Here you can wander through opulent Royal palaces, inhospitable dungeons of old towers, applaud, laugh, and cry at mind-blowing theatre shows in and off the West End. You can even peer inside the house of one of […]
Changes at Madame Tussauds with New David Bowie Figure
January 8, 2022 by
On what would have been David Bowie’s 75th birthday, January 8th, 2022, Madame Tussauds London has released never-before-seen images of David Bowie taken during the creation of his first figure in 1983. The famous Baker Street attraction is sharing these images to announce the creation of a new figure of the musical icon, a second […]
