Where to dress weird, let your hair down and rave it up this Halloween 

Where to dress weird, let your hair down and rave it up this Halloween 

Holly O'MahonyOct 8, 2023

Spooky season parties south of the river Halloween Costume Party: Come As You Aren’t Peckham Levels is ‘creeping it real’ this Halloween, throwing a…

The Hunger: post-apocalyptic horror story comes to Greenwich Theatre

The Hunger: post-apocalyptic horror story comes to Greenwich Theatre

Holly O'MahonyOct 8, 2023

Kitchen sink drama meets post-apocalyptic horror in The Hunger, the first play from female-led company Black Bright Theatre. Set on a remote farm in…

Dance artist Quang Kien Van on his new show Babylon coming to Deptford

Dance artist Quang Kien Van on his new show Babylon coming to Deptford

Holly O'MahonyOct 8, 2023

The Albany’s associate artist Quang Kien Van is often drawn to love stories. Not so much those with happy endings, but some of the…

Tom Geoffrey Comes to South London Louie

Tom Geoffrey Comes to South London Louie

Michael HollandOct 8, 2023

South London Louie is delighted to welcome Chef Tom Geoffrey of Barang Cambodian Street Kitchen for a six-week evening chef residency.  Customers should expect…

Kill Thrills at The Union

Kill Thrills at The Union

Michael HollandOct 8, 2023

Patrick Hamilton’s Rope is his controversial play said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of…

IRIE! Dancing from the Archives

IRIE! Dancing from the Archives

Michael HollandOct 8, 2023

Excitement and anticipation are building in the run-up to the re-launch of IRIE! dance theatre’s performance company. After an 18-year hiatus, IRIE!, helmed by…

Far Far Away at the Elephant & Castle

Far Far Away at the Elephant & Castle

Michael HollandOct 7, 2023

The Foreigners’ Panto, written and directed by Shani Erez, makes its world premiere at BOLD Elephant, a charmingly intimate theatre space in the very…

The Roundshaw Estate built on an historic international airport in South London

The Roundshaw Estate built on an historic international airport in South London

Croydon is famous for a number of things. Stormzy, the 50p building, and of course being the former home to one of the UK’s…

New Documentary about the old Silwood Estate in Rotherhithe

New Documentary about the old Silwood Estate in Rotherhithe

AdminOct 6, 2023

Micky Holland is the Arts Correspondent at the Southwark News but when he’s not in the theatre or an art gallery he is busy…

Council to permanently ban school run traffic from nine Croydon streets

Council to permanently ban school run traffic from nine Croydon streets

Croydon Council has confirmed that all but one of their ten new healthy school streets (HSS) will become permanent, banning all non-permitted vehicles entry…

559 new homes project progresses in Bexley

559 new homes project progresses in Bexley

Plans to deliver a new South London neighbourhood with hundreds of new flats have progressed, after a developer purchased the site earlier this month.…

Wandsworth Bridge reopens after shutting for 10 weeks

Wandsworth Bridge reopens after shutting for 10 weeks

A bridge over the River Thames in South West London has reopened to vehicles after shutting for ten weeks while major repairs were carried…