Events on Friday, February 1
Friday 1/2 @ Newington Green Unitarian Church
Few instruments are as versatile and expressive as the oboe, capable of moving from melancholy to ecstacy in a few notes....
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/2 @ Forster Gallery
Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but...
Gillray's Legacy: A Contemporary Perspective
Friday 1/2 @ The Political Cartoon Gallery
Georgian caricaturist James Gillray, considered the pre-eminent early political cartoonist, was a thorn in the side of power brokers like Napoleon,...
Friday 1/2 @ Young Vic
Stemming from Thomas Babe's gritty narrative of social unrest, A Prayer for My Daughter takes place in the turmoil of post-Vietnam...
Friday 1/2 @ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes
Mystic south London septet Crystal Vision have adorned a trendsetting former clothing emporium with their fantastical and wonderful creations. Although classed...
The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
Friday 1/2 @ Barbican
Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were...
Friday 1/2 @ The Economist Plaza
Fans of Beatrix Potter look away now – Laura Ford's incarnations of the author's beloved characters are enough to give fully...
Friday 1/2 @ Tricycle Theatre
Kwame Kwei-Armah is a rare creature. A hospital-drama actor turned playwright, he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also...
The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
Friday 1/2 @ Arcola Theatre
When Nadira and Craig Murray met in 2004, he was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and she was a belly dancer...
Friday 1/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...
Friday 1/2 @ National Theatre
Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock,...
Friday 1/2 @ The Old Vic
Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic...
Friday 1/2 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Czech-born Pavel Büchler has spent many years investigating the theories and concepts behind art. As Research Professor of Art & Design...
Friday 1/2 @ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...
Friday 1/2 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Friday 1/2 @ The Horniman Museum
Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Friday 1/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Friday 1/2 @ Timothy Taylor Gallery
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before...
Friday 1/2 @ Guanabara
Drury Lane's Guanabara club brings the thrill of Brazilian carnival to London, and the celebrations get more extravagant every year. For...
Friday 1/2 @ Trafalgar Studios
Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when...
Friday 1/2 @ Photofusion Photography Centre
German photographer Kathrin Kur documents the real-life backdrops used to make television and movie magic. A shot of the deserted Tomb...
Friday 1/2 @ Renoir Cinema
In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922),...
Friday 1/2 @ Nettie Horn
The Clearing explores notions of internal and external space, with images ranging from the serene to the strangely disturbing. Joe Biel...
Friday 1/2 @ Royal Botanic Gardens
Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view...
Friday 1/2 @ Almeida Theatre
The Homecoming, a '60s classic by Harold Pinter, tells the story of an ex-pat and his wife who return to working-class...
Friday 1/2 @ Mark Barrow Fine Art
In memory of John Copnall's passing in June of last year, Mark Barrow Fine Art displays a chronology of the noted...
Friday 1/2 @ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...
Friday 1/2 @ Somerset House
Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a...
Friday 1/2 @ The Fine Art Society
Tim Simmons takes mundane landscapes — a field, a snowdrift, a backyard — and turns them into ethereal, haunting locales. He...
Friday 1/2 @ Royal Court Theatre
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American...
Friday 1/2 @ Finborough Theatre
Howard Brenton's Weapons of Happiness was the first play to be performed at the Lyttleton in the politically turbulent '70s, causing...
Friday 1/2 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad....
Friday 1/2 @ ICA
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the...
Friday 1/2 @ Vegas Gallery
Beg, borrow and/or steal appears to be the premise for Vegas Gallery's forthcoming exhibition, Loose Booty, which sees artists from Geneva...
Friday 1/2 @ Various locations
True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice...
The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire
Friday 1/2 @ Old Operating Theatre
Artist Daniel Baker creates scenarios from a play about a disease, The Simbysial Case, taking inspiration from the paper theatres popular...
Friday 1/2 @ National Theatre
Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects...
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
Friday 1/2 @ Camden Arts Centre
Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is...
Friday 1/2 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
This stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a businessman who turns into an insect returns to Hammersmith ahead of a...
Friday 1/2 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Friday 1/2 @ Haunch of Venison
An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However,...
Friday 1/2 @ Riverside Studios
Before he became famous, hard-drinking literary icon Brendan Behan once scraped a living together by writing pornography. He was also a...
Friday 1/2 @ Gate Theatre
I Am Falling is a searing and complex exploration of age. The dance/theatre collaboration tells the story of Tom (Ben Duke),...
Friday 1/2 @ National Portrait Gallery
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in...
Friday 1/2 @ Kensington Palace State Apartments
Although he may not be as much of a household name, Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe remains one of England's most exciting...
Friday 1/2 @ The Place
Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a...
Friday 1/2 @ The Miller
Write Side of the Brain is an opportunity for an artistic binge. The event includes six readings from new talent fresh...
Friday 1/2 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
Friday 1/2 @ The Bush Theatre
For this production, still less than a year into Josie Rourke's tenure as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, she turns...
Friday 1/2 @ White Cube
2005 Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond graces the stark Hoxton White Cube with his projects from Tibet and the British Isles....
Friday 1/2 @ Hackney Empire
London's weirdest and most entertaining variety show, the 291 Show, returns to the Hackney Empire for a special winter mini-season. The...
