Rain or shine, London is filled with plenty of activities and exhibitions to keep you creatively inspired this springtime season! We’ve compiled our list of the top plays, exhibitions, and activities to do in London this month to maximise your time in this lively city.
The A-list Hollywood couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah-Jessica Parker share the stage at the stunning Savoy Theatre for Neil Simon’s classic romantic comedy. A delightfully witty exploration of love and marriage, Plaza Suite had New York City audiences enchanted with its charm and its starry cast. Watch them transform into three unique couples, each finding themselves entangled in hilariously outlandish situations within the walls of the legendary Plaza Suite hotel room.
For all you Succession fans, here’s your chance to watch Sarah Snook take on every role in this gripping, witty and vibrantly contemporary production that breathes new life into Oscar Wilde’s classic tale. This ground-breaking production – adapted and directed by multi award-winning Kip Williams, Artistic Director of the acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company – delivers an explosive interplay of live performance and video in an astonishing collision of form. This is a strictly limited run, so book your tickets now.
Matt Smith of Dr Who and The Crown stars in this bold reimagining of the classic play by Henrik Ibsen. It’s the English-language premiere of German director Thomas Ostermeier’s globally renowned production. This new adaption is famous for its town hall debate-style section in the play where the audience is invited to debate the ethics of the play with its protagonist, played by Matt Smith.
The first of its kind, this exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.
The UK debut of Zineb Sedira’s critically acclaimed exhibition, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance. Sedira will transform the Gallery’s exhibition space into a series of film sets, blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, using cinema and performance to foreground the importance – and joy – of collective shared experiences, while simultaneously raising a warning about the failure of the emancipatory dream that for many people remains an unfulfilled promise.
Spanning more than seven decades, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND is the UK’s largest exhibition celebrating key moments in Ono’s groundbreaking, influential and multidisciplinary career, from the mid-1950s to now – including her years in London where she met her future husband and longtime collaborator John Lennon. Explore over 200 works including instruction pieces, scores, installations, films, music and photography.
CUTE brings together contemporary artworks, including new artist commissions, and cultural phenomena such as music, fashion, toys, video games and social media, in this brand-new show examining the world’s embrace of cute culture and how it has become such an influential measure of our times. The exhibition will feature a games arcade for all ages and will even spotlight and celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of cute’s most iconic and ubiquitous figures, Hello Kitty.
Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a flow of molten metal to the interlacing of a spider’s web, the artworks in When Forms Come Alive conjure fluid and shifting realms of experience. Undulating, drooping, erupting, cascading and promiscuously proliferating, these sculptures invite a tactile gaze, and trigger physical responses. Palpably dynamic, they proclaim that nothing in the world stays the same, that everything is moving, seething, changing and transforming.
On select dates, the British Museum is hosting a free demonstration of a Japanese tea ceremony. Given by members of the Urasenke Foundation London Branch, this demonstration is followed by a brief explanation of tea drinking and gathering in Japan.
Currently in its seventh year, The Architecture Drawing Prize continues to celebrate the art of drawing in three categories: hand-drawn, digital and hybrid. The Prize has attracted a record number of entries with nearly 250 drawings from around the world.
DIVA celebrates the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring and redefining the role of 'diva' and how this has been subverted or embraced over time across opera, stage, popular music, and film. Highlights include photographs of iconic divas such as Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Lizzo, Cher, Tina Turner, and many more.
Rong Bao Is Me pays testament to Bao’s playful transformation of familiar objects through sculptural practice, prompting us to question our perception of the physical world. The exhibition will invite sensory interactions between audience and artwork, creating a playground of gestures that poke fun at the absurdity of posing order on society. Viewers should prepare to connect with their mischievous sides and participate in a world that pushes the boundaries of acceptability.
The city of London will be in full bloom with events celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th, and Women’s History Month celebrations the whole month long. From the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre, to a free lunchtime lecture at the V&A, there are lots of ways to celebrate women from all around the world.
Sunday 17 March is the annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival, and London’s Trafalgar Square will host a fabulous parade from noon onwards. Expect the best of Irish food, music, and culture with more than 50,000 people expected to join in the festivities.
For all Where’s Wally? fans, March 24th is the day to put on your red and white striped jogging shirt and round spectacles to take part in this Fun Run around Battersea Park! Choose between a 5k, 10k, or children’s 2.5k challenge and raise money for the National Literacy Trust. Everyone who raises over £100 will be put into a raffle for some great prizes.
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