Events
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger! For the first time ever, this much loved tale of a tiger creating tea time mayhem is brought vividly to life on stage in a show packed with oodles of magic, sing a long songs and clumsy chaos. Expect to be surprised!
Control Freak, the show that has been challenging and entertaining audiences around the country, comes to The Bloomsbury Theatre for one night only. Up and coming illusionist Tom Harrison makes his London debut with this interactive and unique show. Combining extraordinary psychological trickery with risky and seemingly impossible demonstrations, Control Freak ensures everyone has something to think about on their way home.
In London, they reckon he's the "Next big thing in musical comedy" (The Times) and "The best musical comedian since Bill Bailey" (Time Out) In Melbourne, they say he's "Witty, smart and unabashedly offensive" (The Age) In New York, they call him "Dazzlingly daffy... so refreshing" (NY Times)
When Charlene Gordon and Jaida Gomes were asked what they thought of the level of gun/knife crime in London, and young peoples behaviour in general, their response was that much is being done to prevent this rapid growing crime but little is being done to steer the weapons in the right direction.
The Four Hands on One Piano Music & Comedy Duo. Katzenjammer, the UK's favourite mad piano virtuosos, are back in London for the first time since their launch at the Royal Opera House! Come and join them for an unforgettable night of the world's greatest music mixed with utter nonsense, including special appearances by the Simpsons, a first division concert pianist, and just wait 'til you see what they do with a hoover!
All of the Planet's Wonders (shown in detail) Fresh from a run at The Edinburgh Festival, this is critically acclaimed Josie Long's new show for 2008 Hopefully this show will be so big and so small that you'll need a telescope and a microscope. At different times.
Carivog International UK presents the 6th Miss Trinidad & Tobago UK Pageant and Cultural Show, where they will select a UK based Trinbagonian beauty to be a cultural ambassador to represent Trinidad and Tobago in the UK. The night's proceedings will showcase the incredible and wonderfully diverse culture of the beautiful Caribbean twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, home of the Carnival and steel pan. We welcome you to a night of song, dance and amazing costumes. Entertainment will feature soca, chutney, calypso, soul and steel pan.
The shows on the 24th and 25th will be filmed for a forthcoming DVD. Mark returns to The Bloomsbury Theatre with a brand new show that is guaranteed to have you in stitches! "A brilliant stand up." Evening Standard "If a tornado could be bumbling and lovable while blowing things around, the experience would be similar to a Mark Watson stand-up set." The Guardian
A memorable evening of music and dance celebrating the abolition of the slave trade, to raise funds for the Ghana charity Ashanti Development. Royal Ballet dancers including Mara Galeazzi, Yuhui Choe, Thomas Whitehead and Sergei Polunin, come together with Agnes Lopez Rio, Antoine Vereecken and Neil Brown from Wayne McGregor / Random Dance, to present a rich variety of new and recent choreography, interwoven with music composed by ex-slaves and arrangements of spirituals and plantation songs, played by Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche.
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare yourselves for Horrible Histories live on stage! Using actors and ground-breaking 3D special effects, these two astounding shows – The Terrible Tudors and The Vile Victorians – are guaranteed to thrill you and your children. Historical figures and events will come alive on stage and hover at your fingertips.
A Very Private Diary... Revisited! Award-winning screen and theatre star Victor Spinetti unlocks his very private diary to tell stories about The Beatles, Peter Sellers, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and many more, brought together in a sensational and hilarious evening of comedy, gossip and revelations.
DENNIS LOCORRIERE is one of the last great undimmed American heroes. Without reservation he still has one of the finest voices around, impassioned heartbreak and lost innocence… As the lead singer of Dr Hook, one of the biggest bands across the world in the seventies and eighties, Dennis Locorriere is THAT beautiful voice instantly recognised the world over.
Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing, xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind Johnson And Boswell: Late But Live, which played to critical acclaim at the Traverse Theatre at Edinburgh 2007.
From BBC Radio 4's 'The Now Show' and 'Crimes Against Music' and BBC1's 'The One Show', 'The Country’s leading musical satirist' (The Times) is back on tour with his band. Following the release of his latest single Sing Like An Angel.
An obesity time bomb no one should miss! An evening of music and merriment with material drawn from Fatso, The Rutles, Rutland Weekend Television, Monty Python and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, featuring original members Neil Innes, Brian Hodgson, John Halsey, Billy Bremner and Roger Rettig.
Paramount Comedy and Avalon Promotions Ltd present the Edinburgh & Beyond Live Tour sponsored by Magners Irish Cider. Fresh from their Edinburgh Festival shows, four of Britain's finest comic talents come together for the must-see tour of the year.
The Bellydance Superstars return to the Bloomsbury Theatre. Hailed as the next big dance show phenomenon to follow Riverdance by none other than the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, and Daily Express, the Bellydance Superstars are the world's premier touring bellydance troupe taking this ancient art form into the mainstream.
Mike Batt is one of Britain's most successful songwriters and record producers, having composed and produced both pop and classical hits for many artists from Art Garfunkel to Vanessa Mae and Cliff Richard. He is also Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, the body that represents UK’s record companies. He wrote and produced 'Bright Eyes, - Art Garfunkel's international number one single, and collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the song 'Phantom of The Opera'. He has won five Ivor Novello Awards (the UK's songwriting 'Oscar').
The multi-award winning Comedian and star of 8 Out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, and XFM, embarks on his first live national tour with this exciting and hilarious show, that will have audiences begging for more.
A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle-player, Eliza Carthy is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as, arguably, the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation. For her new tour, Eliza is accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander (Salsa Celtica) on keyboards / piano accordion. Eliza will showcase original material from her album Dreams of Breathing Underwater. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.
Star of Bafta-winning comedy The Thick of It and his own new-for-2008 BBC2 sitcom Lab Rats, Mr la-di-da smartypants Addison is also regarded as one of the most versatile comics in the country. With his pacy, energetic routines and faultless delivery, he has charmed audiences and critics alike as a top class purveyor of smartarse daftness, whimsy, perspiration, lies and jokes, and got two Perrier nominations for his trouble.
Appearing for the first time in the UK and coming straight from the hugely successful sell out 'Axis of Evil Comedy Tour' in the US, Middle East and Australia, with regular appearances on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno', 'The Late Late Show' and Comedy Central's 'Premium Blend', Max Jobrani an Iranian-American comic, brings his original and hilarious stand up show to London.
The Birmingham Stage Company is proud to present Rudyard Kipling's classic story about Mowgli, a young boy who is raised in the jungle by a family of wolves. When Shere Khan the tiger swears to kill the child, Baloo and Bagheera agree to take the boy to the man village for his safety. But the jungle holds dangers and surprises for them all - and Mowgli's extraordinary adventure has just begun!
John Shuttleworth in The Minor Tour (and other mythological creatures) Join "Sheffield’s finest comedy synthesizer-player and twaddle-talker" (The Telegraph) in a celebration of all things strange and mythological, which may well include Father Christmas himself.
Simon Day first started in stand up comedy in 1990, winning the time out new act of the year award in 1991. He rose to prominence in ‘The Fast Show’ also touring extensively performing his many characters; this tour will be his first solo stand up tour ever, with no wigs hats, or comedy glasses. He will attempt to explain what it is like to be a clown, hero, genius, loser and true artist in one show don’t miss it!
New comedy from star of Live At The Apollo (BBC) and Royal Variety Show (ITV). Sell out in 2005/6/7. "You'll laugh until you actually cry." ***** Sunday Express
