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Valhalla Hall of the Slain - The London Bridge Experience & the London Tombs

The London Bridge Experience & The London Tombs are proud to announce the latest offering, Valhalla Hall of the Slain which is set to open February 11th 2010. Go

Easter Head Hunt - The London Bridge Experience & the London Tombs

The London Bridge Experience and The London Tombs are holding a cracking treasure hunt this Easter Holidays; THE EASTER HEAD HUNT for intrepid eggs-plorers keen to find out more about the history of this fascinating bridge, and to delve into its chilling past. Go

Henry VIII - Shakespeare's Globe

Famous in its own day as Shakespeare's most sumptuous and spectacular play, Henry VIII is a gorgeous pageant of masques and royal ceremony; a blaze of fireworks, cannonfire, red satin and cloth-of-gold. Go

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera - Tate Modern

Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects. Go

Level 2 Gallery: Haris Epaminonda, VOL. VI - Tate Modern

In the latest Level 2 Gallery series, Tate Modern's dedicated strand for emerging art, Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda creates a new installation responding specifically to the architecture of the space. Go

Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare's Globe

The first instalment of Shakespeare's gripping account of the rise of Hal from idle barfly to monarch-in-waiting combines compelling power politics with the hilarious antics of Falstaff, Shakespeare's greatest comic creation. Go

Tate Modern Live: Katerina Šedá - Tate Modern

Czech artist Katerina Šedá has devised a collaborative project with some inhabitants of The Czech Republic and the residents of Southwark. From Morning Till Night connects two normally disparate places to explore the social conventions of both peo Go

Francis Alÿs - Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents a major retrospective of work by the celebrated, experimental artist Francis Alÿs. Using diverse poetical and allegorical approaches, and working in a variety of mediums, Alÿs explores political subjects such as contentious borders and economic crises. Go

Henry IV Part 2 - Shakespeare's Globe

At least the equal of Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 includes some of the greatest moments in Shakespeare: the deathbed scene of the old King, when Hal contemplates the crown; the reunion of Falstaff with his old boon companion, Justice Shallow; and Hal's devastating rejection of Falstaff himself. Go

Aspects of Love - Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre

Trevor Nunn returns to the Chocolate Factory to direct the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart's Aspects of Love starring Katherine Kingsley and Michael Arden. Go

Off The Wall, Summer at Bankside - Bankside Gallery

Original watercolours and prints by Members of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers for immediate sale Go

The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare's Globe

Performed on an Elizabethan-inspired stage, a small troupe of travelling players breathe new life into this delightfully anarchic play. Fast, furious and extremely funny, eight talented actors reinvent renaissance touring theatre for the 21st century with Shakespeare’s greatest farce. Go

Ping Pong - Bankside

This summer, 100 ping-pong tables will pop up across London’s landmarks, squares, shopping centres, estates, offices and train stations. From Soho Square to Westfield Shopping Centre, Tate Modern to the British Library, St Pancras International to Heathrow’s Terminal 3 Go

Anne Boleyn - Shakespeare's Globe

A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s notorious second wife. Anne Boleyn is traditionally seen either as a pawn manipulated by an ambitious father and his friends into the King’s bed, or as a sexually licentious predator, even a witch. Go

Locate - Jerwood Space

Featuring the work of artists Mel Brimfield, Sarah Pickering and Aura Satz, Locate will exhibit three new commissions exploring the artists’ responses to the idea of ‘site’. Go