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Theatre

Must Do

Free Weekend? Try our Top 5 Theatre Guide

From plays on top of pubs to musicals in the park, where are the best venues to see thespians doing their thang?

Community

Fairytales for Adults at The Forge

Power struggles, alchemy, stolen children, bizarre marriages and unflinching metaphor fill The Crick Crack Club’s new performance: storytelling for grown ups

Family

Review: La Tempesta, Queen’s Wood

Puppets and aerial performers leap through the trees, much to the delight of the little faces staring up from this pop-up forest floor theatre

LGBT

Review: The Sound of Music, Open Air Theatre

The classic camp musical, performed under summer skies in Regent’s Park. What’s not to like?

Community

Camden Fringe 2013 Top 5

Never checked out this sprawling month-long celebration of all things experimental? Well, it’s back for an 8th year, running at 17 venues across the borough (and beyond) – until August 25th. Read on for some handy highlights

Q&A

Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Diana Quick, actor

‘My earliest Kentish Town memory? Coming up to visit a secret lover in the early 1980s. It felt like travelling to a foreign land.’

Community

Pinboard: a plan for the Pizza Express building?

Also this week: a new French-Vietnamese cafe on Fortess Road, the Amy Winehouse exhibition starts in Camden, support some channel swimmers, catch a bee-themed play …and where can you ask for the libation cunningly known as a “Kentishtowner”?

Community

Pinboard: A new record shop? A new bar? Plus markets and gay pride 2013

Shebeen vs the Tunnel Bar? Plus learn to act at the Pleasance, head to Granary Square for streetfood – and lots more to consider this weekend

Family

Review: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Little Angel Theatre

Theatre is among the most refreshingly guilt-free, organic options parents have at their disposal when wishing to thoroughly indulge the kids. Particularly here

Art

Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!

A cinema? Arts hub? Ideas store? Now is the time to act.

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