Here are our top 5 picks of the best Theatres and Galleries currently open
NOW, I SEE
A powerful fusion of movement, song, and text
Two brothers reunite to honour their sibling's life at a celebration of remembrance. As they begin to explore letting go, they are forced to confront their shared past and long-standing estrangement.
Following the sell-out run of SAMSKARA (The Yard), this brand-new work by Lanre Malaolu explores the challenge of forgiving yourself for a lifetime of suppressed emotion, while celebrating the profound bond of brotherhood and the resilience that can be found in joy.
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The Opera Locos
The greatest hits of opera in one night; this is a show for everybody!
You won’t be able to stop yourself from falling in love with this comedy opera where Puccini meets Elvis.
Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in summer 2023, award-winning Spanish theatre company Yllana brings the London premiere of The Opera Locos to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells’ home in the West End, this May. The Opera Locos is a comic opera show where five lyrical singers combine well-known opera classics including La Traviata and Madama Butterfly with rock and pop hits from Whitney Houston to Mika. The show integrates these musical genres with Yllana’s physical comedy style to create a show for audiences of all ages.
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ECHOES by Michael Gregorjev Murn
Miart Gallery London announce first UK solo exhibition of Michael Gregorjev Murn
‘ECHOES’ by Michael Gregorjev Murn will open on 10th May and run until 6th June, 2024. Set to be a defining moment in MGM’s artistic journey, the exhibition is the first stop on an ambitious eight-year global tour for the artist, which will involve art fairs around the world and culminate in a retrospective exhibition in New York.
Murn’s inaugural solo UK retrospective will be exhibited at the award-winning Miart Gallery London, a spectacular 560m2 contemporary and modern art centre located in the heart of Mayfair on St. James’s Street, London.
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The Decorative Fair, Spring 2024
Welcomes The House Directory for a fair-within-fair focusing on bespoke craftsmanship
The Decorative Fair, London’s most beloved antiques, design and art event, returns to Battersea Park in the Spring from 7-12 May, with the addition of an exciting new fair-within-fair organised in conjunction with The House Directory, located on the mezzanine. The Spring Fair also has a focus on garden antiques and furniture, statuary and decorative objects.
The House Directory will present a hand-picked collection of established and emerging craft and bespoke focused home suppliers and services
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Polly (The Heartbreak Opera)
A riotous and radical adaptation of John Gay’s banned sequel to The Beggar’s Opera
A collaboration between Marie Hamilton and Sharp Teeth Theatre, Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) is heading to The Pleasance Theatre in London from 8th - 11th May. Bringing a gritty, vibrant energy to John Gay's scandalous sequel of The Beggar’s Opera with original music inspired by Peaches, Britney and Nina Simone. This fierce adaptation renews Polly, Gay’s near forgotten gender-bending, anti-colonialist and proto-feminist ballad opera, originally written in 1729 but banned for the outrage it sparked. Now in the 21st Century, Polly’s arguments about gender, colonialism and women’s rights rage on. Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) hilariously rips the text apart, re-writing Gay’s original satire to reflect the all too similar societal inequalities of the present day.
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