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Category Archives: Comedy
Crystal Palace Overground Festival announces its 2015 dates
The Crystal Palace Overground Festival returns to Crystal Palace from Wednesday June 24 to Sunday June 28, offering fun for all. Festival fringe events will take place on June 24 to 26, with the Westow Park main event on Sunday … Continue reading
Iain Lee headlines the comedy line-up at Spread Eagle
The latest season of shows at the Spread Eagle Theatre begins next week, with more comedy nights planned for the coming months, including appearances by headline acts Iain Lee, Rosie Wilby and Patrick Monahan. There is still a thread of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Music, Pubs, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Comedy, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre
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Eagle Improv with a touch of tinsel, Spread Eagle, Dec 17
This most spiffing comedy improv outfit presents a monthly mash-up of off-the-cuff games, daring tomfoolery and feats of extraordinary imagination at The Spread Eagle Pub and Theatre. Last Christmas I gave you my heart. This year I give you a … Continue reading
Einstein is back at his brilliant best at the Spread Eagle
Our arts critic, BELLA BARTOCK, was transported in time and space when she went to the theatre this week. And she wasn’t even on the vodka My mother, when I was growing up in Budapest all those years ago, always … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Music, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Albert Einstein, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theory of Relativity
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Fairfield Halls needs to look to the future, not the past
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Politically inspired misinformation shared with a residents’ meeting and ill-informed Twitter gossips threw into doubt (again) the future of the Fairfield Halls last week. For ROD DAVIES, questions remain about the Halls’ artistic programming Fairfield Halls needs professional … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Cinema, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Arts, Fairfield Halls, Music
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Going, going, Goon: last chance to catch comedy classic
If you want to see The Goon Show performed live on stage, you had better get along to the Spread Eagle Theatre tonight. It could be the last performance of the show, ever, warns BELLA BARTOCK They said that with … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Spread Eagle Theatre, The Goons
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Spread Eagle jazzes up the re-staging of The Goon Show
The Spread Eagle pub is next door to Croydon Town Hall. What better venue, then, to perform a live re-staging of The Goon Show? The latest production at the Spread Eagle Theatre next week seeks to recreate the comic lunacy … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged BBC, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre, The Goon Show
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Spread Eagle Theatre is tuned in for the light programme
BELLA BARTOCK, our resident culture vulture, got out her rouge and party frock to enjoy another evening at the Spread Eagle Theatre, which is celebrating its first birthday As I make my way past East Croydon Station, taking great care … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
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The Commitment: a new work at the Warehouse Theatre?
Ted Craig, the director of the Warehouse Theatre at East Croydon which was forced to close two years ago, has warmly welcomed the news, reported by Inside Croydon, that Ruskin Square developers Stanhope are keen to stand by their pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Music, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Ruskin Square, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Ruskin Square could include theatre if council refunds £3m
Croydon could get a purpose-built, modern 200-seat studio theatre to replace the much-lamented Warehouse Theatre, provided that the council re-allocates a £3 million grant originally intended for the purpose by private developers Stanhope. The news comes as the now Labour-run … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Business, Cinema, Comedy, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Music, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Riesco, Tim Pollard, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Win tickets for the opening show of Spread Eagle’s new season
Inside Croydon, together with the Spread Eagle Theatre on Croydon High Street, are delighted to present another terrific offer for our loyal reader. To mark the start of the theatre’s autumn season of productions, which open next Tuesday with Tell … Continue reading
Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Arts, Comedy, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
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Kevin Day, WG Grace and Sherlock Holmes headline SNAF
Kevin Day, comedy writer, stand-up and Palace fan, will get the two-week-long South Norwood Arts Festival under way in earnest next Monday, July 7. Day, who has written for the likes of Dave Allen and Jo Brand and been a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Music, People for Portland Road, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Stanley Halls
Tagged Comedy, Croydon, Kevin Day, People of Portland Road, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, SNAF, South Norwood, South Norwood Arts Festival, Stanley Halls
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Sponsors on board to get Overground Festival primed
Thanks to local sponsors and funders, the organising team of volunteers behind the Crystal Palace Overground Festival next month have announced a jam-packed programme of events. The combined £18,000 sponsorship has contributed enormously to the programming of the various festival … Continue reading
Time to rebuild cultural wasteland created by Croydon Tories
VOTE 2014: TIMOTHY GODFREY, Croydon Labour’s arts and culture spokesman, says that encouraging culture, instead of axing its funding, is possible and can be done Art and culture have a civilising influence on us all. They bring people together, they … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Riesco Collection, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Crystal Palace Festival gets top Marks to raise funds
Howard Marks is bringing his show, Scholar, Smuggler, Prisoner, Scribe, to south London on May 29 as a fund-raiser for the Crystal Palace Overground Festival. Marks, the former drugs smuggler who became notorious as “Mr Nice” through a series of … Continue reading
Not a dry seat in the house after five hours of Ken Dodd
The Ashcroft Theatre staged one of the great performers of the last 50 years last week. It was just that he seemed to include a half-century’s material in his act, as our veteran showbiz correspondent BELLA BARTOCK reports What do … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Comedy, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Ken Dodd
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Charity Commission report confirms block on council takeover
The Charity Commission, the official body responsible for supervising the management and running of the nation’s charities, has today published a report into the trust which runs the Fairfield Halls following an investigation instigated after seeing reports on Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Triangle’s festival going Overground in June
The Crystal Palace Overground Festival is set to return this summer, for its eighth year. The free four-day event will run from June 26 to 29 at venues across Crystal Palace and the Upper Norwood Triangle. More than 6,000 attendees … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Dance, Music, Theatre, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Comedy, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Overground Festival, drama, Music, Upper Norwood Triangle
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Downton Abbey provided the clue to win theatre tickets
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader Phil Cox and a friend will be attending The Diary of a Nobody this week, courtesy of the Spread Eagle Theatre, after winning our latest reader competition. The email inbox at iC received several service warnings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Pubs, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Charles Pooter, Croydon, Downton Abbey, Hugh Bonnevile, Pooter, pubs, spread eagle, Spread Eagle Theatre
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Steel’s fond of his dirty old town. At least it’s not Swanley
BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, has been out on the town again, and found herself rolling in the aisles at the Ashcroft Theatre. But she picked herself up and dusted herself off just in time for comedian Mark Steel to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Comedy, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Comedy, Croydon, Croydon South, Crystal Palace, Fairfield Halls, Mark Steel, Richard Ottaway, Whitgift Centre
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An audience with John O’Farrell: Sat Feb 1
Supper and an audience with John O’Farrell Saturday 1 February 7.30pm Ruskin House, Croydon, CR0 1BD An evening of humorous insights with the script-writer from Spitting Image and author of ‘Things can only get better’ Priceless fun for the bargain … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Comedy, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, John O'Farrell, Labour, Sarah Jones MP
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94% back staging of Lake Conan Doyle naming ceremony
The ceremony in South Norwood Country Park to rename its lake after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes author, will go ahead on February 1 “officially or unofficially”, according to the organisers, in spite of opposition from Croydon Council. … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Mike Fisher, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Conan Doyle, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Lake Conan Doyle, London Borough of Croydon, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, South Norwood, South Norwood Country Park, South Norwood Tourist Board, Tory
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Sold-out performances ensure this is no Cinderella service
The hectic social whirl that is Christmas has seen BELLA BARTOCK out twice in a week. Last night in New Addington, she was one of the lucky ones to get the hottest ticket in town, for the Salvation Army’s annual … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Church and religions, Comedy, Music, New Addington South, Theatre
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