Event: Chineke! Orchestra January 29, 2020 | Sponsored The Chineke! Foundation was created by Chi-Chi Nwanoku in 2015 to provide career opportunities to established and up-and-coming Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians in the UK and Europe. City A.M. Club members are offered a 20% discount on full price tickets. The code can be entered at the checkout stage online, over the [...]
Event: London Choral Sinfonia January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Join soloists from the London Choral Sinfonia (LCS) on a journey through some of the most sublime German lieder and instrumental music alongside carefully selected wines. In association with Majestic Wine, the London Choral Sinfonia presents a brumal evening for German music lovers. Together we will explore some of the most heart-wrenching and heart-warming lieder [...]
Event: Lunchbreak Opera January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Lunchbreak Opera’s mission is to persuade those who work in the area to take a proper lunch break, and a few times a year, to spend it nourishing their artistic imagination. Lunchbreak Opera hosts two productions a year, previously including Gianni Schicchi, Prima la Musica, Suor Angelica & A Dummies Guide to Opera. City A.M. [...]
Event: Samuel Beckett: Fail Better January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Presented by Poet in the City as part of their FailBetter2020 Season. When is failure a good thing? Poet in the City’s 2020 programme contemplates failure as a catalyst for change. Writing in a time of global change and at the intersection of literary modernism and postmodernism, Samuel Beckett’s work was preoccupied with the failure [...]
Event: Big Band Night at Eastcheap Records January 29, 2020 | Sponsored EastCheap Records’ monthly Big Band series continues. Visit Eastcheap Records to see the top 16 London musicians improv their way through classic swing, bebop and Latin. It’s a one-of-a-kind night in the City and happy hour will be running from 5pm ’til 8pm. So grab a cocktail, grab a seat and enjoy the ride. City [...]
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review: Terry Gilliam goes balls-to-the-wall in this kaleidoscope of imagination January 24, 2020 Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote begins with a title card: “After 25 years in the making… And unmaking”. He’s not kidding – Gilliam started work on the film in 1989, it entered full production almost a decade later with Johnny Depp starring, only to see illness and floods destroy the work and [...]
Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy review: A daft name adorns a roller-coaster of form and imagination January 24, 2020 With Picasso and Paper, the Royal Academy confirms what we have suspected all along: the diminutive Spaniard did, in fact, make use of the material we know as ‘paper’. Sometimes he drew on it, other times he cut it into funny shapes. You could never tell what he was going to do next, when it [...]
You Stupid Darkness! at Southwark Playhouse review: a quietly life-affirming apocalypse comedy January 24, 2020 You Stupid Darkness! is a harrowing comedy about four volunteers, crammed into a dank call centre, filling the midnight to 4am slot on Wednesday mornings at Brightline; a dial-in emotional support service helping callers come to terms with the apocalypse. Things have been getting worse for a while now. The world isn’t ending with a [...]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie musical review: Major changes revive this popular musical January 24, 2020 Popular musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is switching it up for 2020, with some major cast changes, including a new Jamie. Based on the 2011 documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is an inspirational coming of age tale about a young man taking his first high-heeled steps into the fantastical world [...]
The Personal History of David Copperfield review: A gentle period comedy that lacks Armando Iannucci’s signature bite January 24, 2020 Armando Iannucci’s filmography is a roll-call of some of the best satire of modern times, from his early days on The Day Today and Alan Partridge, right up to 2017’s deliciously dark The Death of Stalin. The common thread binding them together is a gleeful hostility. Iannucci clearly thinks politicians, on the whole, are a [...]