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Ballet Review: Triple Bill @ Royal Opera House

Three ballets, three undoubted hits.

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Preview: The 18th Annual Raindance FIlm Festival

With its emphasis on extremes – extreme storytelling, extreme topics and extreme film-making techniques, the indie film festival Raindance once again elevates the capital’s cinema-going opportunities to gigantic proportions, with a programme that boasts 250 shorts and documentaries, five of which are banned in other …

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Preview: Brian Eno’s Apollo @ Southbank

Pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of Brian Eno’s Apollo to the Southbank this month. With a musical arrangement by Jun Lee (also known as kayip), who was selected for the task by Eno, it …

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Last Minute Listing: Apollo Concert @ Science Museum

Brian Eno was astounded by the moon landing 40 years ago but rightly thought music should have accompanied such monumental first contact. So he composed the album Apollo in 1983 and you’ve got the chance to hear it in a new live arrangement at the …

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Theatre Review: Three Days of Rain at the Apollo

Three Days of Rain stars Lyndsey Marshal, Nigel Harman and James McAvoy When Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain first played in London 10 years ago, it boasted a scrumptious-sounding cast of Colin Firth, Elizabeth McGovern and David Morrissey. Now it’s back, with Lyndsey Marshal …

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Arts Ahead 8-15 July

Ignore the crazy weather, and book on something more definite: London’s world-class cultural scene is here to entertain you, come rain or shine. Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is offering a reimagined Midsummer Night’s Dream for everyone aged six and over from today. If you’ve …

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High School Musical To Hit Hammersmith

For over a year now Disney’s hit High School Musical has been pretty much inescapable, spawning two chart-topping soundtracks and launching the career of tween idol Zac Efron. The HSM bandwagon shows no signs of slowing down either, with the legitimate theatre production of the …