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Category Archives: Croydonites Festival
It’s the final countdown as Rowland reflects on our mortality
KEN TOWL considers Plato, kingfishers and Ian McKellen’s balls in an hour-long Croydonites Festival performance which could never over-run James Rowland is dead. Well, sort of. The end was inevitable. The digital clock at the back of the stage counted … Continue reading
READER OFFER: Half-price tickets for Croydonites comedy
The Croydonites Festival is offering Inside Croydon readers half-price tickets – while seats are available – for one of its headline acts: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show. With a cheeky poster that almost got Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, The Front Room
Tagged Comedy, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Reader offer, St George's Walk, The Front Room
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Croydonites provides a front-row seat for hard-hitting comedy
The 2025 Croydonites Festival is well underway, and KEN TOWL could not resist the chance to go along to see the sold-old Dick’s Picks (geddit?!) Dick Denham had been tasked with curating a range of comedians for a night of … Continue reading
10th annual Croydonites Festival of Theatre, Oct 8-Nov 1
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For full details of this year’s Croydonites Festival, visit the website by clicking here
10th annual Croydonites Festival of Theatre, Oct 8-Nov 1
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For full details of this year’s Croydonites Festival, visit the website by clicking here
10th annual Croydonites Festival of Theatre, Oct 8-Nov 1
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For full details of this year’s Croydonites Festival, visit the website by clicking here
The Croydonites Festival looks more edgy than just the fringe
This year’s Croydonites Festival opens on October 8, marking 10 years of supporting local artists and bringing high-quality performances to Croydon. Croydonites’ artistic director Anna Arthur says the festival’s mission “is to identify and nurture local theatre and performance makers through … Continue reading
Podcast: Why diversity and inclusion should matter to us all
Our Croydon Insider podcast is exclusive premium content for our paying subscribers. On our panel this month are Anna Arthur, director of The Croydonites Festival, now in its 10th year, Darryl Chamberlain, the Editor of the Greenwich Wire news website, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Athletics, Commissioners, Cricket, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydonites Festival, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, CYTO, Debbie Warren, Donna Fraser, Inside Croydon, Sport, Theatre
Tagged Anna Arthur, Commissioners, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival, Darryl Chamberlain, DEI, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Donna Fraser, Hammersfield, Labour, Patreon, Podcast, Spotify, The Croydon Insider, The Greenwich Wire, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Yusuf Osman
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Pregnant with vulnerability, Gwilliam sets the scene for festival
KEN TOWL ventured deep into an abandoned building site while full of hopeful expectation for a workshop performance ahead of the 2025 Croydonites Fringe I had seen Amy Gwilliam’s evil alter-ego, property developer Frankie Foxtone, deliver a corruscating satire on … Continue reading
Something for the weekend – our latest news panel podcast
Here’s our latest Croydon Insider news podcast, a politician-free zone where a panel of Croydon figures delve into the news that really matters to you. Our guests for our November episode are David Morgan, Croydon Minster archivist and author of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydonites Festival, Garwood Foundation, Inside Croydon, Schools, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Under The Flyover, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Anna Arthur, Brian Finegan, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, David Morgan, Dr Ross White, Garwood Foundation, Hammersfield, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, The Croydon Insider, Under The Flyover, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Mini-movie does a reduxed double-take on All Of Us Strangers
KEN TOWL was at a movie’s world premiere on Saturday, staged in Croydon (just off Surrey Street, as it happens), of a film shot in Croydon, of a film set in Croydon. His verdict? It’s a bit of a split … Continue reading
Frankie Goes To Croydon – a walking show with a big reveal
The first Croydonites Fringe Festival was staged over the weekend, a curtain-raiser for a month-long programme of theatre around the borough, and KEN TOWL was there to see it all unveiled at one of the shows I’m standing in the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Centrale, Croydonites Festival, Ken Towl, Theatre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Amy Gwilliam, Centrale, Croydon, Croydon Town Hall, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Croydonites Fringe, Frankie Foxtone aka The Profit, Hammersfield, Ken Towl, Nestle Tower, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield
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Sign up NOW! to be part of the Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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Sign up TODAY! to take part in Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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Sign up to take part in this year’s Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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How businesses profited at expense of the Borough of Culture
BOROUGH OF VULTURES: £1.3m of arts funding provided by the Mayor of London was misused by Croydon’s Tory council to boost local businesses, but delivered a year-long flop, judging by official audience figures. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s year as … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, CODA, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Kristian Aspinall, London Mozart Players, Mayor Jason Perry, Music, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Andy Stranack, Borough of Culture, Borough of Vultures, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Lean Cinema, Develop Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Kristian Aspinall, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, White Label
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After the comedy clowns, now Sh!t Theatre’s in the Town Hall
We’ve had crap councils for a very long time. So it is perhaps entirely fitting that next month, the Town Hall will be the venue for Sh!t Theatre. With £15,000-worth of grants from, equally, the Arts Council and Croydon Council, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Amy Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival
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