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Tag Archives: Stanley Halls
Comedy Fyles are worth seeing when they get to Edinburgh
FRINGE REVIEW: As the Croydonites festival enters its final two days, KEN TOWL (Croydon’s answer to Tynan), pictured right, conducts a compare and contrast of two of the shows this week, and marks your card for tonight and tomorrow, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Ken Towl, Poetry, Stanley Halls, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre
Tagged Croydonites, Croydonites Fringe, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Emma Davies, Emmy Fyles, HR, Human Resources, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, The Front Room
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iC reader wins tickets to see Jake Yapp at Croydonites Fringe
There’s none of this Jim Bowen “This is what you might have won!” 1970s game show malarkey for Inside Croydon reader Mark Vaughan, because he and a guest have nabbed a pair of tickets for one of the hottest shows … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydonites Festival, Dance, Music, Poetry, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre
Tagged Centrale, Cornershop Showdown, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Croydonites Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Jake Yapp, Stanley Halls, Studio 55, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern
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Take a step back to the 1970s with Jake Yapp’s game show
Inside Croydon subscribers can win a pair of tickets for Cornershop Showdown in a special 1970s quiz – click here to enter our competition now! For one generation, shows like The Generation Game, 3-2-1 and The Price Is Right are … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydonites Festival, Dance, Music, Poetry, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre
Tagged Centrale, Cornershop Showdown, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Croydonites Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Jake Yapp, Stanley Halls, Studio 55, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern
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Croydonites pull back the curtains on five days of Fringe
The Croydonites Fringe is back! From July 1 to 5, 21 works will take place across Croydon town centre and South Norwood featuring artists from Croydon, London, the rest of Britain and beyond. Less than a month before the world-famous … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydonites Festival, Dance, Music, Poetry, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Croydonites Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Jake Yapp, Stanley Halls, Studio 55, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern
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Great Big Bug Show is bringing minibeasts to South Norwood
Simon Mole and musician Gecko are bringing their new family performance, The Great Big Bug Show, to Stanley Halls in South Norwood for the spring half-term, on Wednesday May 27. Mole is the National Poetry Day Ambassador and acclaimed children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Music, Poetry, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Gecko, Half term, Simon Mole, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls
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There’s a Spanner in the works as drag comes to Stanley Arts
If you want to know more about family break-ups and car breakdowns, then Fixing, performed by Matt Miller and coming to Stanley Halls this Thursday, is the show for you. South Norwood is the latest stop on a national tour … Continue reading
Posted in Art, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Fixing, Matt Miller, Peader Kirk, South Norwood, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls
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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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Crystal Palace film festival under threat over council licences
The founder of one of the country’s most popular film festivals has branded Lambeth and Bromley councils “pathetic” and “short-sighted” over the threat to lumber his organisation with thousands of pounds of additional costs which could force the event to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bromley Council, Cinema, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace International Film Festival, Everyman Crystal Palace, Lambeth Council, Stanley Halls
Tagged Bromley Council, cinema, CPIFF, Crystal Palace International Film Festival, Everyman Crystal Palace, Johnny Vegas, Kerry Godliman, Lambeth council, Mark Steel, Neill Roy, Paul Weller, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, West Norwood Picturehouse
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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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We had all better keep a look out for whatever Katie does next
The play that takes its title from Bowie’s dismissal of the town where he went to art school is nearing the end of its run. KEN TOWL took the chance to glimpse at the brilliance of the one-woman show at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, David Bowie, Edinburgh Fringe, Katie Hurley, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, You're So F**king Croydon
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Hurley’s Bowie-inspired one-woman show is coming home
Katie Hurley’s hit show from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe is finally coming home. The co-producer of the annual Croydonites Festival wrote and starred in her one-woman show at the world’s biggest fringe festival last summer, where You’re So F**king Croydon! … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Inside Croydon, Raye, Stanley Halls, Theatre, Under The Flyover
Tagged #SoEffingCroydon, Croydon College, Croydon College of Art, Croydonites, David Bowie, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Katie Hurley, So Fucking Croydon, Stanley Halls, Under The Flyover, You're So F**king Croydon
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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
Questions, questions: General Election hustings dates (so far)
If you have a question to put to an election candidate, or to a political party which is seeking your vote in Croydon, here’s a way you can try to get some answers Hustings used to be the way for … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged 2024 General Election, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon TUC, Croydon West, General Election, General Election 2024, Green Party, Hustings, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Ruskin House, Stanley Halls, Streatham and Croydon North
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A paradigm of politics: John Smith’s final visit to Croydon
To mark the anniversary of the death of John Smith MP, former Labour councillor JERRY FITZPATRICK casts his memory back 30 years to the day the party leader addressed a rally in Croydon, accompanied by a young Anthony Blair At … Continue reading
BRIT in deal to secure free schooling for talented arts pupils
PRS for Music, a world-leading music collective management organisation, is partnering with The BRIT School’s renowned music department to inspire – and fund – the next generation of artists. The partnership will enable The BRIT School to remain free to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Schools, Stanley Halls
Tagged Music, PRS for Music, Selhurst, Stanley Halls, The BRIT School
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Arcadia’s impressive dancers channel growing anger of youth
KEN TOWL went along to South Norwood for an opening night of dance, theatre, film and rap which displayed young talents and an urgency for action to safeguard our environment Arcadia: the name of the classical ideal of unsullied nature, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Environment, Ken Towl, Music, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Arcadia, Ken Towl, South Norwood, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls
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Exciting Easter lined up for visitors to Centrale and Whitgift
This Easter, Centrale and Whitgift shopping centres in Croydon town centre will be hosting a roster of interactive activities for families – and helping to raise funds for a local arts charity. From April 1 to 5, you and the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Business, Centrale, House of Fraser, Stanley Halls, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Easter, Stanley Halls, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Rewire: free youth mental health summit, Stanley Halls, Feb 24
Posted in Health, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
Tagged Mental Health, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Poetry in motion as the dinosaurs descend on Stanley Halls
The Great Big Dinosaur Show is coming to Stanley Halls in South Norwood in half-term week next month. Simon Mole and Gecko will be staging two family shows full of poems, raps and songs about all your favourite prehistoric protagonists … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Stanley Halls
Tagged Dinosaurs, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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20% OFF theatre tickets – Book for Stanley Arts’ Night Shift
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer our loyal readers another great money-saving arts offer. We have been offered discounted tickets to Night Shift, a new play from the award-winning, Croydon-based ZooCo theatre company, to be performed at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged South Norwood, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls, ZooCo
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London is opening its doors… just not so much in Croydon
The programme for the 2023 Open House London has been released this week. And this year, with Croydon being London’s Borough of Culture, there’s just nine events or buildings, public and private, in the borough listed as being open for … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, Crystal Palace Park, ECCO, Environment, History, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Crystal Palace, Museum of Croydon, Open House London, Pullman Court, South Norwood Library, Stanley Halls, Streatham, Whitgift Almshouses
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