With hard-hitting play How To Start a Knife Gang, multi-award-winning theatre company Something Underground will be hitting The Cockpit, Marylebone in Oct 2024. And with free dance & theatre workshops, they’re looking for young people across the city to come and help them create… action! (whilst tackling the issue of knife crime).
How To Start a Knife Gang is a compelling (Bruntwood Prize-longlisted) thriller from writer/director Jonathan Brown, about knife crime and how young people becoming embroiled in it. And Something Underground is seeking young people (age 10-17) from across London, to come to a series of five, completely free, all-expenses-paid dance & theatre workshops and, alongside professional actors, musicians, dance teachers and their theatre director, co-create a fantastic performance to be shown to friends and families on the last evening. The free workshops will also include knife-crime prevention workshops from The Ben Kinsella Trust, and comic-creation from Penificent, (who use graphic art & comics to explore issues of gang violence and mental health.)
Pop icon Anastacia has today announced a huge European tour for 2025, introducing the Not That Kind tour. The mammoth tour marks 25 years since Anastacia’s debut studio album which was released in 2000. Anastacia first broke through in Europe with smash hit I’m Outta Love which featured on the album, and the star has continued to have global success ever since. The tour will see the biggest voice in pop visit Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Ireland and the UK. Tickets go on general sale Friday 5th July at 10am via 
Larger than life, postmodern, explosive, and chaotic, Daniel York Loh subverts the notion of the typical British Chinese experience in his latest play which premiered in London last week. The last time I felt such awe and excitement about the possibilities of theatre was when I saw Daniel’s last play at the Arcola Theatre, FORGOTTEN 遗忘 (2018).
Today, the RSC announces the appointment of Despina Tsatsas as the Company’s new Executive Producer (London), working alongside Co-Artistic Directors Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans and Executive Director Andrew Leveson to define and deliver commercial producing opportunities for the RSC in London and internationally.
5x Grammy winner and one of the most notable hip hop, R&B, and fashion/style icons of all time, Ms. Lauryn Hill is continuing where she left off – once again reuniting with The Fugees, to co-headline an extension of The Miseducation Anniversary Tour in honor of the landmark album that was just named the best album of all time by Apple Music. The tour will feature music from The Miseducation of Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Score and more.