Could you be a City Adventurer? Are you the sort of person who enjoys participating in something challenging that fills you with the sense of achievement? Do you find you want to unleash your inner Indiana Jones and discover new places? Do you fancy exploring places that are a little off the beaten track. Are … More Are you a City Adventurer?
The City Adventurers were excited to attend the European premiere of one of the most popular romantic tearjerkers in manga history. A modern high-school musical mixed with Japanese manga mixed with a classical musical masterpiece….. Your Lie in April is playing at Harold Pinter theatre for a limited season this summer. Plot Your Lie in … More Your Lie in April (Review)
Will you stay up to 2:22am? The supernatural thriller smash hit 2:22 A Ghost Story is coming to the end of its run at the Gielgud theatre, following five record-breaking seasons at various theatres around London’s West End. 2:22 A Ghost Story was an instant theatre sensation and has become a modern classic. Nominated for three Olivier Awards … More 2:22 A Ghost Story (Review)
The City adventurers were lucky enough to be invited to see Next To Normal at the Wyndham’s Theatre. Written by Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), Next to Normal has already won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony Awards. We’d seen the posters saying it had been nominated for 4 Olivier awards … More Next To Normal (Review)
The Plot BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN… Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that … More Stranger Things The First Shadow – review
The European premiere of Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning film Spirited Away, now re-imagined for the stage, is being performed at the London Coliseum this summer. It is performed in Japanese with an English translation visible from all seats. Spirited Away review Some of the City Adventurers saw Spirited Away years ago as a film and loved … More Spirited Away (Review)
The City Adventurers attended an Evening of Unnecessary Detail at the Royal Institution. The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, founded in 1799. In the basement there is the Faraday Museum which is free to visit. After looking around the museum we headed upstairs to the library, then … More An Evening of Unnecessary Detail
The City Adventurers headed to Hampstead Theatre for another World Premiere. This time we were seeing April De Angelis’ backstage comedy “The Divine Mrs S”. The play tells the story of Mrs Sarah Siddons and the origins of celebrity culture in the 18th-century. About The Divine Mrs S Drury Lane, 1800. Mrs Sarah Siddons, universally … More The Divine Mrs S
The City Adventurers were lucky enough to get tickets for Priscilla The Party. This is an all-singing, all-dancing immersive musical theatre event at HERE at Outernet in London’s Soho. That’s right, 30 years after the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert hit our screens it is now a Party! Getting there and venue We were only saying the other week … More Priscilla The Party
The City Adventurers were lucky enough to visit Blackpool Tower Circus in 2023. We were amazed by the performances and even more amazed that the final act staged a water finale. Turns out it is one of only two circus in the UK with an impressive water finale. This is when the entire circus ring fills with water. (The Great Yarmouth … More The Blackpool Tower Circus