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Panto – Sinbad The Sailor, Sanderstead, Jan 11-18
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Tagged Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club
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Dick Whittington the Panto, Upper Norwood, Nov 23-30
Posted in Comedy, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dance, Theatre
Tagged Downsview Players, Upper Norwood
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New Pauline Quirke academy opens its doors this Saturday
Kids aged from six to 18 have their big chance to take to the stage this Saturday, with a free open day at a new performing arts academy in West Croydon. Birds of a Feather and Broadchurch actress Pauline Quirke … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Cinema, Comedy, Dance, Education, Music, Theatre, West Croydon
Tagged Harris Invictus Academy, Pauline Quirke, Pauline Quirke Academy, PQA
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Freedom! Are Crystal Palace residents ready for breakaway?
The week-long Crystal Palace Festival gets underway tomorrow with a weekend of music and dance in the park. But because of the local borough geography, the organisers and other groups have to deal with five, even six, local authorities, which … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Bromley Council, Comedy, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Dance, Lambeth Council, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Music, Poetry, Southwark Council, Theatre
Tagged Bromley, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Festival, Lambeth, Lewisham, London, Noreen Meehan, Southwark
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Organisers in appeal for volunteers for Crystal Palace Festival
Next month’s Crystal Palace Festival is recruiting volunteers. “We’re only as good as our volunteers, and we invite people from all walks of life to contribute their time and skills to make Crystal Palace Festival the best community festival in … Continue reading
Sunbed shop soap saga Bronzed is getting golden reviews
Stand-by for the latest YouTube sensation, starring a local actress who has co-written Bronzed, a comedy-drama set in a Croydon sunbed shop. Katherine Hurley was inspired to make Bronzed after working in South Croydon pub The Folly back in 2005. … Continue reading
Pantomime spirit is alive and well in Coulsdon. Oh yes it is!
As the Fairfield Halls approaches a third ‘dark’ Christmas, for the first time in living memory, there is no ‘Croydon Pantomime’ this year. Except, as our intrepid arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK discovered this week, there are community drama groups keeping … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Coulsdon, Dance, Music, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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It’s a case of Night and Day at Screen25’s comedy shows
Not content with staging live music linked to their screenings, Screen25, South Norwood’s community cinema, has now announced plans to stage live comedians. Well, Kevin Day. Boom! Tish! (We’re here all week…). Day, the funniest thing to come out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Kevin Day, Screen25, South Norwood
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CODA make a real song and dance out of their 75th birthday
Culture correspondent BELLA BARTOCK dusted off her glad rags, and her Zimmer frame, to get along to the Braithwaite Hall for an innovative take on a birthday party It’s not often I get invited along to birthday parties these days, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Comedy, Music, Theatre
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association
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Come to Croydon’s cabaret: 5 Spectacular tickets for price of 4
Inside Croydon readers who want to help to celebrate CODA’s big birthday party next week can now do so with a really Spectacular money-saving offer. CODA – the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association – is marking its 75th anniversary year … Continue reading
Posted in Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association
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Beauty And The Beast, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, Dec 8-16
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Spectacular – CODA’S 75th anniversary cabaret, Nov 7-10
Posted in Art, Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Comedy, Music, Theatre
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, CODA
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Actor Scanlan to talk in pitiless close-up about her latest part
One of the great achievements of the David Lean Cinema campaigners over the past five years or so has been their ability to organise events around their movie screenings in the Clocktower’s arthouse picture house, pulling in some fascinating and … Continue reading
Downsview Players bring a murder mystery to their music hall
Fancy a chip supper, the opportunity to solve a murder and a knees-up, Victorian style? Join the Downsview Players this autumn for murder, mystery and a good ol’ fashioned singalong. In a back-street tavern in south London, a rowdy music … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Music, Theatre
Tagged Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Downsview Players
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Poot! Poot! Golf and fart jokes put the Wind In The Willows
Whenever our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, fancies a nostalgic trip back to a long lost England, she heads for Coulsdon, where this week there’s a summer production of a gem from the Edwardian era So it was that one evening … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Coulsdon, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon Manor Hotel, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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Courtyard Fringe’s summer season, Chipstead, Jul 25 – 28
Posted in Art, Chipstead, Chipstead, Comedy, Courtyard Theatre, Music, Theatre
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Bugsy Malone at Purley Oaks Primary, South Croydon, Jul 9-10
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Purley Oaks, Schools, Theatre
Tagged Purley Oaks Primary, South Croydon
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Sanderstead Dramatic Club’s Neville’s Island, May 31-Jun 2
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Zoo to bring their Giant for one last outing at St Andrew’s
An acclaimed and award-winning touring stage production from a Croydon-based company is to be performed for the last time in the new performance space in the St Andrew’s Hub in South Croydon later this month.
Posted in Art, Comedy, Human Zoo Theatre Company, Music, Theatre
Tagged Human Zoo Theatre Company, South Croydon, St Andrew's Church, Zoo Co
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