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Dara Ó Briain is a BIG act. Fairfield Halls needs more like him
It was a big night at the Fairfield Halls on Saturday, with Dara Ó Briain, one of the biggest stand-up acts around, performing in front of a full house. KEN TOWL fills in the venue’s audience feedback form The minute … 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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Skibabble open mic night at The Front Room, next up: Oct 7
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Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Music, Poetry, St George's Walk, The Front Room
Tagged Comedy, Music, Poetry, Skibabble, St George's Walk, The Front Room
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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
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
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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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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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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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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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