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Did you know enough to win our Doris Day competition?
Inside Croydon’s Doris Day competition is now closed. Our winners, who knew that Doris Day sang Que Sera, Sera in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (well, we thought it was a good answer for a quiz question) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ashcroft Theatre, Black History Month, Croydon, Doris Day, Man Who Knew Too Much, Que Sera, Secret Love
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Competition: Win a pair of tickets for Doris Day musical
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer two pairs of tickets for the new musical based on Doris Day’s life story, Secret Love, starring Claudia Morris which is being performed at the Ashcroft Theatre next month. Courtesy of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Doris Day, James Stewart, Malcolm Edmonstone, Que Sera, Secret Love
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The Railway Children is steaming towards half-term week
One of the best-loved family stories is steaming towards the Charles Cryer Theatre for half-term week, with CODA – the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association – producing The Railway Children. This charming adaptation is staged with imagination, humour and heart, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Theatre
Tagged Abigail, CODA, Croydon, Noises Off, The Railway Children
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Council risks legal action over decision to sell Riesco china
Croydon Tories deliberately ignored the council’s legal advisers to push through the pawn shop sale of the borough’s Riesco Collection. A confidential document, obtained by Inside Croydon, shows that Steve O’Connell, the cabinet member for finance, and Tim Pollard, the … Continue reading
Council’s deputy continues to lie about Riesco Collection
With Croydon Council’s “unethical” auction of 24 pieces of the Riesco Collection of precious porcelain now barely a month away, there has been no let-up in the deceit being spouted about the disposal by Tim Pollard, the deputy leader of … Continue reading
Doris Day’s life story to take a sentimental journey
Move over darlings, there’s a new stage musical coming to Croydon next month, when the life and works of Hollywood star Doris Day will be in the spotlight. West End performer Claudia Morris is touring the country with the show, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Benny Goodman, Croydon, Doris Day, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Malcolm Edmonstone, Secret Love, Tommy Dorsey
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The Firebird, family concert: Sunday Oct 20
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, England, London, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station
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Gallery pops up to the aid of Upper Norwood Library
Neville de Souza, director of modish property development company Lightbox London, has teamed up with one of his Gipsy Hill neighbours Gina Cross, a local art and design dealer, to create a pop up gallery and shop that will raise … Continue reading
Take a journey back in time with Plotting the Collection exhibit
“‘Plotting the collection’ is our first exhibition in the Museum of Croydon’s new Exhibition Gallery at Croydon Clocktower,” the Museum’s website states. Of course, it could also prove to be the last exhibition staged by the Museum of Croydon for … Continue reading
Trafficked: slavery on the screen: Oct 14
CCAT – Croydon Campaign Against Trafficking – is marking Anti-Slavery Day 2013 with a screening of the 2011 film Trafficked. Date: Monday October 14, 2013 Venue: Spread Eagle Pub, 39-31 Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX Time: 2.30pm and 8pm – … Continue reading
Waspishness, whisky and gonorrhea: a good night in Croydon
BELLA BARTOCK was out on the streets of Croydon again last night, to attend the opening of the town’s newest theatre and witness a star performance worthy of Hollywood As we took our seats for the first performance in the … Continue reading
Going down the pub to make drama out of an arts crisis
Next door to the Town Hall, where the David Lean Cinema has been dark for two years and where the status of the town’s museum is under threat, the arts in Croydon are about to get a boost. TIM HODGSON, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Birmingham, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Fullers Brewery, Kings Heath, Kingsway, South Norwood, Tea At Five
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The Riesco resignation: Doesn’t Pollard read his mail?
Not for the first time, a senior member of Croydon Council’s ruling Tories has been caught out, saying one thing when there is clear evidence to demonstrate the opposite is the case. And as a consequence, Croydon has been accused … Continue reading
PJ’s enterprising look at Black History Month: Oct 29
Today sees the start of Black History Month. One of the events being staged is organised by local business people Claudine and Patrick Reid of PJ’s Community Service, who want to celebrate the history of Black Caribbean and African enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Comedy, Community associations, Croydon Council, Dance, Education, Fairfield Halls, History, Music, Theatre, Thornton Heath
Tagged Black History Month, Croydon, Floella Benjamin, Gina Yashere, London Borough of Croydon, Reginald D Hunter, South Norwood, Thornton Heath
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Did council leader bother to read Downton creator’s letter?
Does Croydon Council leader Mike Fisher have a problem adding up? That certainly seems to be the opinion of the Save David Lean Cinema Campaign, after Fisher made a number of unchallenged assertions in an “interview” with a small circulation … Continue reading
Debate the future of arts in Croydon: Oct 10
The South Croydon Community Association is to stage a local arts debate at the Croydon Unitarian Church on October 10. “Croydon is London’s largest borough with the highest number of young people,” Charlotte Davies, SCCA chair, said. “Its demographic is … Continue reading
Multicultural entertainment, St James the Great: Sep 28
St James the Great primary school in Thornton Heath is staging an evening of multicultural entertainment, with food, music and dance, next Saturday, September 28, from 5pm to 11pm. Tickets are just £2, while children get in free of charge. … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Dance, Music, Schools, St James the Great, Thornton Heath
Tagged Beer in Poland, Brazil, Hungary, Karolinka, Polish cuisine, Thornton Heath
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Croydon U-turn as it opens its doors for Open House weekend
Might this weekend represent the latest minor victory for Inside Croydon? Just over a year ago, we broke the news that, like a churlish, spoilt child having a tantrum, Croydon Council had withdrawn from the Open House London weekend. As … Continue reading
Tea at Five at the Spread Eagle: Oct 2-4
Posted in Art, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, England, Heathfield, London, London Borough of Croydon, Recreation and Sports
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“Unethical” Croydon faces expulsion over Riesco sale
Dudley Mead and Tim Pollard, the pair of senior Tories behind the secretive scheme to flog off 24 of the most valuable pieces of the publicly owned Riesco collection of Chinese ceramics – first exposed by Inside Croydon – must … Continue reading
Seeing potential for SEGAS building and Riesco “windfall”
As Croydon Council scrambles to hand every spare building or piece of publicly owned land over to John Laing to fulfil the ravenous appetite of the developer’s CCURV scheme, however unsuitable the sites might be for high-profit, high-rise apartments, Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Riesco Collection, URV
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Hall, Hong Kong, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon
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The Eagle has landed a future for studio theatre in Croydon
Central Croydon is to get a new performing arts space – inspired by the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign and with productions brought to south London all the way from Birmingham. For the past six months, the world-renowned Old … Continue reading
Minster’s musical celebration for Silver Sunday: Oct 6
Silver Sunday is coming to Croydon Minster. Singers from Croydon and the surrounding area will be celebrating Age and Experience at Croydon Minster from 2.30pm on October 6. The concert takes inspiration from Space for Peace, an annual event which … Continue reading
Croydon actors taking to the stage to play the Rent
CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, one of the oldest amateur dramatics groups in the borough, in association with Stage Left Dramatics, is bringing the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, Rent to Sutton’s Secombe Theatre next month. Based … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, CODA, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Giacomo Puccini, Health, Jonathan Larson, London, New York, Rent, Tony Award
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Skeletons in a tunnel start novel exercise in Crystal Palace
It took local resident TOM BROWN five years, but he has published a book which goes deep under the surface of the Victorian era south London It all started in early 2008. I’d recently finished my debut novel, and was scrabbling … Continue reading
