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Lehman Bros ‘Closing Down’ Art Auction
Image author’s own Benefits of global financial collapse: the clearance sale at the end. Investment bank Lehman Brothers (which went bankrupt quite dramatically in 2008) will be auctioning works of...
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Dungeons Host Talent Search
Image by catya maria007 from the Londonist Flickr pool The talent show format seeps into yet another unlikely area to produce “winners” of extraordinary opportunities to perform. This time, the king...
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Death’s Waiting Room At St Martin-in-the-Fields
Image author’s own Linda Carty is a British grandmother currently on death row in Texas. Her execution is due very soon and legal action charity Reprieve will launch a campaigning exhibition to...
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Monday Miscellanea
Swishing those Londonist numbers around until they come up with a picture… 12 reviews for the Camden Fringe Festival – there’s a lot going on, don’t miss out! 243,179 Twitter followers for Arsenal FC...
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Carry On Camping, Commuters!
One way to beat London house prices and London rents is to bypass houses and flats and their attendant extortionate costs altogether. In an article of sort-of news, The Evening Standard looks at the...
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Preview: Free Theatre Debates @ London Festival Fringe
There’s been a lot of fringe theatre on Londonist of late and while we’ve been seeing and reviewing a lot, there must also be time for London Theatre Talks 2010. And so, the London Festival Fringe...
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Review: Oikos @ Jellyfish Theatre
Southwark’s Jellyfish theatre looks like a Noah’s Ark for new writing, a fitting home for Simon Wu’s new play Oikos (pronounced ee-kos). Salil has it all – a nice family, a highly paid job, a bit on...
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Londonist Interview: Michael Walling, dir. Re-Orientations @Soho Theatre
Opening this week at Soho Theatre is Re-Orientations, a multi-cultural, multi-media live performance by Border Crossings (the company that brought the Origins festival to London last year) and has...
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Review: Re-Orientations @ Soho Theatre
Photo: Patrick Baldwin Starbucks, wheelie suitcases, airport lounges, emails, Four Seasons hotels are identical, wherever you are. But the people drinking coffee, pushing their cases through passport...
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Choose Your Own Bus-Tops
The team behind Bus-Tops needs your help! The digital art installations designed for the tops of bus shelters across London got us very excited when we first heard about it, and this Artists taking...
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Extra Extra
Galloway may try for Mayor of Tower Hamlets… meanwhile, Duwayne Brooks may try for Mayor of the whole of London. 2012 fake merchandise has been spotted and seized as the Olympics cash-in starts early....
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Mile End Mystery Accident Pay-Outs
The flying piece of plastic that injured three women at Mile End tube station last November has bounced back into the news. One of the injured women has sued London Underground (LU) for damages; she...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Once Upon A Thames
There was no clear reason why the whale entered the Thames in 2006, nor why it touched so many people who lined the Thames hoping to see it. Lunidea have seized on the miraculous, magical aspect of...
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Review: Twin Peaks Weekender @ BAC
BAC held a special 20th birthday Twin Peaks Weekender for David Lynch’s TV series over the weekend. All 30 episodes were shown in the Grand Hall. And the audience, in costume, in sleeping bags, in...
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Review: Charged @ Soho Theatre
Do not go expecting six miniature stage versions of The Shawshank Redemption. Charged at Soho Theatre is not Clean Break’s attempt to recreate that heartwarming tale of human dignity and male...
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Theatre Review: Side Effects @ Rich Mix
Betsy Field, Side Effects REPORT: patient analysis after one dose of dance-theatre SIDE EFFECTS provided by dANTE OR dIE. PRESCRIPTION: One hour treatment, evening. Taken with one glass of wine (red)....
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Last Minute Listing: The Book Of The Dead Late @ British Museum
Spirit, baboon, shabati Tonight from 6.30 pm, the Book of the Dead comes alive courtesy of Home Live Art at the British Museum Great Court. Take part in a free celebration and exploration of ancient...
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East London “Gay Free Zone” Defaced
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist - Indira Gandhi Some ugly stickers have been spotted in east London, declaring the area a “gay free zone” which is wrong when read as fact and wrong when...
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Theatre Review: Whose Blood @ The Old Operating Theatre
Mark Hawkins (Hugo Forester), Candice Onyeama (Efua Kuntu) Setting goes a long way in Whose Blood at The Old Operating Theatre: up the steep, winding stairs of the church tower, into the museum shop...
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Music-Hall Chairs – Play With Us!
Roll up, roll up! The games are afoot! And you are invited to join the fun on Wednesday 16 March in Music-Hall Chairs. Londonist is proud to announce a night of games in partnership with Wilton’s Music...
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Ticket Alert: Civil Unrest @ Debut, London Bridge
The team of six creatives in the Coming Up Festival have been taking it in turns to take over the vaults under London Bridge, filling it with film, opera, music, food and other artistic, creative...
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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities In London
The Cultural Olympiad has been going since 2008, bringing people to the arts and arts to the people in a four year run-up to the Olympics. All sorts has come out of it, including Bus-Tops for London...
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Music-Hall Chairs Interview: Tom Williams, A Door In A Wall
With Music-Hall Chairs due to take place next Wednesday, we thought we should learn a bit more about Tom Williams, the gamesmaster and devising brain behind it all. Tell us a bit about your self…...
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TONIGHT: Music-Hall Chairs @ Wilton’s Music Hall
Join Londonist, A Door In A Wall and Wilton’s Music Hall tonight for Music-Hall Chairs, a series of new games to be played in that famous old music hall. Feud-alism! Capital Casino! Critical Acclaim!...
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Spill Festival 2011: Infection Coming Soon
For every traditional theatre opening in London — red velvet seats, ice cream in the interval, a clear point at which to start applauding — there is an experimental theatre event. Following straight...
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Local: Mem Morrison’s High Street Takeover
Artist Mem Morrison has been recommended by Londonist before, we thought his autobiographical performance Leftovers was uplifting and involving, and the most moving experience we ever had over a full...
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Theatre Review: Hotel Confessions
HOTEL CONFESSIONS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY Londonist is delighted that you chose The Building Site Theatre Company’s production of Hotel Confessions at Bermondsey Square Hotel for your evening’s...
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Theatre Review: The Trial of the Mariner @ Hoxton Hall
It is The Trial of the Mariner, And it occurs at Hoxton Hall, A curious tale, told at full sail, About the threat of plastic sprawl. ‘Tis 200 years in the future, And here Lotos Collective unveils...
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Do We Look Like Refugees?! @ Riverside Studios
Do We Look Like Refugees?! is performed in Georgian, with subtitles in English. …the Recorded Delivery verbatim technique… um… made it feel a lot more… uh, real and I suppose, useful. It wasn’t just…...
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Flhip Flhop @ New Diorama Theatre
Two blokes. In Dave’s plush new flat. Messing around with his stuff while ostensibly painting the walls and doing up the place. It’s not the most scintillating, breathtaking premise for a theatre piece...
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Takeaway – The Musical
TAKEAWAY Happy Family Takeaway Shop, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN Open 7.30 to 10.30pm Tuesdays to Saturdays, matinee orders Saturdays 2.30pm SET MENU A, collection only...
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Devoted & Disgruntled: What Are We Going To Do About Theatre Criticism
What are we going to do about theatre criticism? We’re going to… the Devoted & Disgruntled discussion at Rich Mix tomorrow night to thrash out some ideas about this cherished but sometimes troubled...
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The Black Diamond: An Immersive Adventure
Punchdrunk, Stella Artois and a number of invitees make a hell of a house party. The Black Diamond is a Stella Artois Black promotion, using Punchdrunk’s total immersion theatre tactics to embed the...
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Shoreditch Artist Publishes Text Message Book
Image author's own Txt msgs r precious, cos they capture moments of life when ppl connect, on matters big or small :- ) Shoreditch artist Tracey Moberley has compiled all the text messages she has...
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Bus-Tops In Numbers And Pictures
A long, long time ago we wrote rather deliriously about Bus-Tops, an arts project that puts glowing messages on top of bus shelters. The project was a submission for the Artists Taking the Lead...
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Review: Amy Lamé’s Unhappy Birthday @ Camden People’s Theatre
Dear Diary, Went to Amy Lamé’s Unhappy Birthday, her performance / party thing at Camden People’s Theatre, and it was CRAZY. It’s autobiographical, about how much Amy loves Morrissey, how he was there...
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Flat C Art Gallery: Pink Does Not Exist – Curator Interview
Every Rendition On A Broken Machine: Ross Sutherland Flat C is the newest art gallery in London. But far from being yet another white cube in an expensive street, Flat C is inside the founder’s home in...
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Theatre Review: en route @ Theatre Royal Stratford East
You are walking up a graffiti-covered rail bridge, your footsteps guided by an insistent, shouty, grimey soundtrack. Midway across, you realise where you are but not how you got there or where you are...
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Serpentine Swans Given Holiday From Olympics Activity
The Serpentine, mid-afternoon. Two geese sit on the grass in the shade of a tree near the water, dozing in the warmth. BARRY: Quiet, eh? Where is everyone? Haven’t seen any posh swans a while now. Nice...
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What’s For Lunch? Blanch & Shock @ The Endurance
Culinary trio Blanch & Shock have catered for events and supplied exploding birthday cakes up to now, spending the last four years cooking in a van, in warehouses and in art galleries. They are...
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