YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Music Spoken Word Theatre
Monday 24 March 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Tuesday 18 March 2014
TODAY IN LONDON, TW’s tipped events feature ‘sad rap’ poster boy Drake, the work of wordsmith Simon Armitage, and Richard Herring with guests…
COMEDY: Richard Herring’s LST Podcast feat Nick Helm/Jon Ronson, Leicester Square Theatre, 24 Mar
Richard Herring’s incessantly entertaining on-air chatshow is live-taped, again, at the Leicester Sq Theatre (where else?), this time featuring human loudhailer Nick Helm and humourist journo Jon Ronson in the hotseat. Details and tickets here.
MUSIC: Drake – Would You Like A Tour, O2 Arena, 24-26 Mar
Would you like a tour? Starring smooth-talking Canadian hearthrob Drizzy Drake? You wouldn’t? Oh, well please yourself. But Drake will nevertheless be headlining three nights at The O2 out of love for his new LP, ‘Nothing Was The Same’. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: Black Roses, Southbank Centre, 24-28 Mar
Poet Simon Armitage’s elegiac theatre piece, a one-time radio play written about the late Sophie Lancaster, who in 2007 was beaten to death by a gang because she looked ‘different’. ‘Black Roses’ incorporates the words of Sophie’s mother, Sylvia Lancaster, into prose by Armitage. Details and tickets here.
