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Preview: Hotel Medea, Trinity Buoy Wharf

Hotel Medea, reviewed previously by Londonist, is back in town. If you didn’t catch it last time we can assure you that this time is not to be missed. Beginning at midnight and lasting until dawn, Hotel Medea is an interactive promenade performance that starts …

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Preview: Footsbarn Theatre’s ‘Sorry!’ in Victoria Park

Clowns and undertakers! A gypsy horse circus! A man dressed as an orang-utan! Excuse the prodigious use of exclamation marks but we believe this is a truly must-see production. Footsbarn Theatre, a travelling theatre company which has been touring for nearly 40 years in every …

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Thames Tunnel Tour and Fancy Fair @ Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe

For two days only on 12th and 13th March, the Thames Tunnel, which stretches from Rotherhithe to Wapping, will re-open to the public for the first time in 145 years to mark the end of London’s EAST Festival. Due to unprecedented demand, tickets for the …

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PREVIEW: Eprhyme @ Sandy’s Row synagogue

How often do you get the opportunity to get down to some serious head-nodding action in a place of worship? Unless you are a committed narcoleptic the answer is probably not often. Well, here’s your chance. For one night only New York rapper Eprhyme will …

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Marginalised: Max Richter @ Union Chapel

Part of a four-day musical festival dedicated to raising money and support for the charity Margins, Friday night’s event was an aural and visual pleasure from start to finish. The Union Chapel’s warm and peaceful candlelit chamber was particularly inviting on this blustery autumnal night …

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PREVIEW: Marginalised – Max Richter at the Union Chapel, 23rd October

We would probably go to the Union Chapel to hear someone open and close a door. Especially now the long autumn nights are drawing in, there seems like no better place to spend an evening than inside this monumental, dark, candle-lit room. With the added …

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Music Review: Blue Roses and First Aid Kit @ The Lexington

Last night’s bands were a delight to the eardrums. Both were driven by two multi-talented women who were confident on an array of instruments, including one used by First Aid Kit that we’d never seen before – a combination of guitar and accordion on a …

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Live Music Review: Flomotion Live @ Royal Opera House

Set in the inspiring glass-vauled atrium of the Paul Hamlyn Hall at the ROH, Flomotion Live was a classy event from start to finish. Nick Luscombe is well known for championing great music, regardless of genre or origin – and Friday’s event was no change …