Art, Theatre, Music & Shows

There is a chance to hear the renowned pianist Bobby Chen on Saturday, 27 April, when he gives a special concert in aid of humanitarian relief for the Holy Land at Farm Street Church, Mayfair, London. A reception will follow the concert. All proceeds will be donated through the Humanitarian Relief Fund of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem through the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jer... Read More

The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic's in Southampton Road NW5, has announced the opportunity for choral scholarships for up to four persons to help enrich the musical life of the parish. These scholarships are for singers of any age (including sixth-form school leavers) who are confident in solo and choral singing as well as committed, reliable, and enthusiastic about Catholic sacr... Read More

The oratorio The Sun Does Shine performed at the Hackney Empire on the eve of Holy Week summoned up life-affirming Easter messages of hope and resurrection. Creator-composer Harvey Brough and librettist Justin Butcher write in the programme's foreword: 'Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested in 1985 for a murder he didn't commit and spent the next thirty years on Alabama's Death Row. Through the long yea... Read More

Angelica Kauffman was a neo classicist painter likened to a female Raphael and considered 'possibly the most cultivated woman in Europe.' Her popularity was known as 'Angelica mad'. Born in Switzerland in 1741 to a Swiss mother and Austrian father, an established artist who trained his daughter. Considered a child prodigy, both as a talented soprano - the original 'voice of an angel' and as an art... Read More

Donato Tallo writes: For Catholics, the Eucharist is the source and summit of our Christian life (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324) and for this very reason, Holy Thursday at the start of the Sacred Triduum is a day of great importance. The season of Lent has drawn to a close and we are called to walk with Jesus through his Last Supper, Passion, Death and Resurrection. The significance of the... Read More

Palestinian multi-instrumentalists Charlie Rishmawi and Miguel Khair have joined forces with London band Ooberfuse in this poignant musical lament: Dying Son, highlighting one mother's devastating grief at the loss of her child. More than 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in the past five months - thousands more are missing under the rubble or suffering from starvation. Hal St John, from... Read More

There's a chance to see Justin Butcher's The Devil's Passion in a special benefit performance for the Amos Trust Emergency Appeal for Gaza at the Union Chapel, London, on Palm Sunday 24th March. 50% of ticket sales will go to the Emergency Appeal. The show has been on tour in Italy and Malta for the last three weeks. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th & 27th of March it will be at All Saint's An... Read More

The National Gallery has acquired, in time for Easter, Eucharist (about 1637-40), one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper, by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1664). The painting is the first of the Gallery's Bicentenary year acquisitions. It can be viewed in Room 31 from today alongside a new long loan from the same Sacraments series Marriage (about 1637-40). The 15th painting by the French classic... Read More

A 300-strong crowd gathered at a Coventry church for a 'powerful' retelling of the Easter story performed by pupils from eight city schools. Around 120 children from across the Romero Catholic Academy came together to perform Born for This - a musical reflection on the Stations of the Cross - with families, friends and churchgoers soaking up dramatic sequences and choir music inspired by the Passi... Read More

Wintershall Theatre will once again be bringing their powerful Passion of Jesus to Trafalgar Square on Good Friday, 29 March 2024. Supported by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with a blessing from Cardinal Vincent Nichols, a cast of around a hundred actors as well as some horses, doves and a donkey will be re-enacting the final days of Jesus in this iconic location. There is a realistic interpret... Read More

Vox Holloway, the dynamic community choir of Holloway, London specialises in commissioning and performing new works with professional composers and musicians. On Saturday, 23 March, at 7.30pm, they will be performing The Sun Does Shine at the Hackney Empire. In June 1988, Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted by an Alabama court of two murders he did not commit, in one of the most shockingly cynical mi... Read More

As part of its Lenten devotions, Westminster Cathedral Choir performs Johann Sebastian Bach's vivid and visceral retelling of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John, sung in German, on Thursday, 14th March. James Gilchrist returns to Westminster Cathedral as the Evangelist. Recognised as 'the finest Evangelist of his generation', James is one of the UK's leading tenors - a prol... Read More

Justin Butcher's profoundly moving The Devil's Passion returns to north London this weekend with performances at Theatre Technis in Camden and one show later in the month at the Union Chapel in Islington. With a nod to Paradise Lost, and under a swaying banner of a winged serpent bearing the Legend 'Non serviam', a debonair Satan casts himself as leader of the 'free world' against fanatical enemie... Read More

A major art exhibition: 'Deepening the Mystery: 'unexpected treasures' of art' is opening at the Focolare Centre for Unity in Welwyn Garden City this Friday. The Methodist Modern Art Collection, which will be on show from 1 March to 7 April 2024 includes paintings, limited edition prints and reliefs by key figures of 20th and 21st century British art, as well as works by international artists. E... Read More