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Time travel by velvet and smoke back to a Paris club in 1896
STEVEN DOWNES takes a trip back in time and a sip of a once-banned liquor Everyone these days appears to be on “a journey” of some kind or another. If you were to take a half-hour journey from East Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Coco Belle, Croydon, East Croydon station, Joe Morose, Le Chat Noir, Secret Cinema, The Lost Estate, West Kensington
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BRIT School dance star ready to face his Hollywood challenge
With half-a-million followers on TikTok, a former pupil at Selhurst’s world-famous performing arts school is preparing for a career-defining move. And Brett Sewell tells GABRIEL MacARTHUR there’s no ‘Plan B’ There is something cinematic about the image Brett Sewell paints … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Gabriel MacArthur, Schools
Tagged Brett Sewell, Brit School, Dua Lipa, Gabriel MacArthur, Harry Styles, Kelly Rowland, Lana Del Rey, The BRIT School
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All-star concert at Palladium to raise funds for the BRIT School
The BRIT School, the country’s leading performing and creative arts state school, has entered into a partnership for The Other Songs Live, being staged at one of the world’s most famous theatres, The London Palladium, on Tuesday, May 19. Tickets … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music
Tagged Adele, Grammys, Lola Young, Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean, Oscars, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Kooks, Tom Holland
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Brit School celebrates its made-in-Croydon Grammys hat-trick
News just in from Hollywood: former Brit School pupils have scooped the Grammys. The Brit School had a trio of Grammy winners in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Olivia Dean, Lola Young and FKA twigs, former pupils at the specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Raye, Schools, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, Brit Awards, Brit School, FKA twigs, Grammys, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden
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Live music venue where the bands are part of the audience
From Metal Mania to Lego nights to craft and knitting afternoons, a new arts venue on George Street, opened during post-covid uncertainties, is trying to offer something for everyone, as NADIA AZIZUDDIN explains Riff Raffs on Croydon’s George Street is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Dance, Music, Nadia Azizuddin, Riff Raffs
Tagged Adam Pearson, Claire Hoggs, Croydon, George Street, Lego nights, Nadia Azizuddin, Riff Raffs
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Strictly’s real glitterball winners are dressmakers from Croydon
Whoever receives the glitterball at the end of the BBC’s pro-celebrity Strictly Come Dancing tonight, they will probably be wearing costumes where every stitch of chiffon, every sequin, has been designed and sewn on by craftspeople at a Croydon-based costume … Continue reading
By George! She’s Got it! My Fair Lady’s a triumph for Scorziello
FIRST NIGHT REVIEW: The classic Lerner and Loewe musical can be a challenge to stage even for the biggest theatre companies on the West End or Broadway. In Coulsdon this week, the local community centre is staging ‘a lavish, fast-paced show… … Continue reading
Oh yes she is! Victorian dancer who became a pantomime star
CROYDON CHRONICLES: One of the great British traditions of this time of year is the family visit to the theatre, or to a church hall for the local am-dram performance, during pantomime season. DAVID MORGAN traces the career of Caroline … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, David Morgan, Fairfield Halls, History, Music, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Caroline Parkes, Charles Fenton, Croydon, Croydon Chronicles, Crystal Palace, David Morgan, Dick Whittington, Fairfield Halls, Panto, pantomime, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Stanley Halls, The Brothers Grinn, Theatre Royal
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Now wouldn’t that be loverly?! My Fair Lady comes to Coulsdon
Some of the best-known and most-loved show tunes ever written are about to be dusted off and performed with suitable gusto, as My Fair Lady is brought to the stage of the Coulsdon Community Centre this December. Possibly one of … Continue reading
Trustees bring down final curtain on the Crystal Palace Festival
After almost 20 years, the Crystal Palace Festival is no more. The largely volunteer-led summer festival of music, comedy and arts, was first staged in 2006, by traders in the Upper Norwood Triangle. At its peak, thousands would attend various … Continue reading
Thornton Heath Festival, Thornton Heath High Street, Sep 7
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The Croydon Night of Dance 2025, Addiscombe, Tue Aug 19
The Croydon Night of Dance 2025, in aid of the Rotary Club of Croydon’s charities, is being staged on Tuesday August 19, promising “a night of music, mirth and magic, as a multitude of Morris maids and men do mingle … Continue reading
Live at His Majesty’s! Sign up for stage school’s free auditions
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Posted in Activities, Comedy, Dance, Education, Music, Theatre
Tagged His Majesty's Theatre, Pauline Quirke Academy, PQA, Selhurst
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Morris in the Village, Honeywood Museum, Carshalton, July 24
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Dance, History, Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Honeywood Museum, Morris dancing
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Routes to Roots, with Shelley King, Stanley Arts, June 22
Posted in Activities, Art, Dance, Music, Stanley Halls
Tagged Coronation Street, Routes to Roots, Routes to Roots Exhibition, Shelley King, Stanley Halls
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Learn to waltz and tango at Dance Delight lessons and classes
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Posted in Activities, Business, Dance, Surrey Street
Tagged Dance Delight, Surrey Street
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Learn to waltz and tango at Dance Delight lessons and classes
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Tagged Dance Delight, Surrey Street
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LMP’s Changing Seasons concert put a real spring in my step
Three lucky Inside Croydon subscribers each won a pair of tickets to enjoy the London Mozart Players’ Vivaldi-inspired Changing Seasons concert at the Fairfield Halls on Saturday. One of them, PAUL AINSCOUGH, shares his thoughts on the evening I was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music
Tagged Fairfield Halls, Four Seasons, London Mozart Players, Vivaldi
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Mozart Players return to Fairfield with community-style Vivaldi
The London Mozart Players are to make a rare concert appearance at the Fairfield Halls next month, with what they call “a new cross-genre performance” of Changing Seasons. Changing Seasons is “a multi-genre spectacular”, London Mozart Players say, “that reimagines … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music
Tagged BH Live, BHLive, Fairfield Halls, Four Seasons, London Mozart Players, Vivaldi
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Conan Doyle ghost story to be brought to life in South Norwood
A South Norwood arts centre is to be transformed next month, as it stages an immersive adaptation of a darkly thrilling short story by probably the most famous author to have ever lived in South Norwood – Sir Arthur Conan … Continue reading
