Beth Mander runs The Paxton Centre, a thriving community arts space in Crystal Palace. She shares her top south London tips including where to…

Its sweet and sour exotica transports you to a place you could live forever

Those who knew them would be mouthing the words, eyes wide open at the spectacle of colour and sound on the stage

At the end several people around me were quietly sobbing

The sweetest of all Matthew Bourne’s treats returns

Audiences become voyeurs in other people’s stories

There was strong singing from all the cast

A shocking, energetic, feast of a play based on the true story of Craiglockhart War Hospital

Starring Lee Mead, Bonnie Langford and Claudillea Holloway

This festival is about acknowledging that it takes the whole community to care for the whole community

Part grand guignol, part seedy vaudeville, part grunge cabaret, The Tiger Lillies never cease to shock, surprise and entertain

A man on the next table interrupted to tell us that he had come down from Manchester just to eat here