Daily Archives: July 19, 2012

Live Long and Prospero, as Star Trek meets the X Factor

BELLA BARTOCK got all spaced out last night as she saw the latest production from the Mitre Players No need to travel to the West End this week when you have this high-energy production of the highly entertaining Return to … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Music, Shirley North, Theatre, Trinity School | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

What’s in a name? For Croydon Council, about £3m

According to PIGGY ASHCROFT, our council wants to make a crisis out of a drama, with designs on the Warehouse Theatre‘s name and hard-won reputation as well as its multi-million pound endowment from developers Croydon Council wants to go into … Continue reading

Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Property, Ruskin Square, Sara Bashford, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Warehouse Theatre: Croydon Council does the dirty deed

We reproduce here some of the key pages from the deed, drawn up in March this year, which Croydon Council has presented to developers Stanhope, demonstrating the greedy grab for the £3 million grant that had been promised to provide … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Lording over democracy: what reforms we really need

Our report from the House of Commons on the Lords Reform debate produced several insightful comments from Inside Croydon readers. Reform of the second chamber may not be the most important matter facing the government, but it is significant because … Continue reading

Posted in Gavin Barwell, Inside Croydon, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, Paul Burstow MP, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments