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London / Exhibitions
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Mayor's Thames Festival
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11th September 2010 and 12th September 2010
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Blackfriars Bridge, Victoria Embankment, The City,
London, EC4V3QR
8 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The Mayor's Thames Festival takes place in mid-September each year celebrating the main waterway which winds its way through the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Antony Gormley: Flare II
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24th February 2010 and 31st December 2010
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St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Churchyard, The City,
London, EC4M8AD
10 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Antony Gormley's wire sculpture Flare II is temporarily suspended from the Geometric Staircase at St Paul's Cathedral adding a modern...
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London / Theatre
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A Disappearing Number
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10th September 2010 and 25th September 2010
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Novello Theatre, Aldwych, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B4LD
13 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
A Disappearing Number returns to the West End for a limited run this September at the Novello Theatre. Complicite's play...
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London / Theatre
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Oliver!
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1st October 2009 and 8th January 2011
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Catherine Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B5JF
13 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Lionel Bart's smashing Victorian musical has had two previous London productions which both ran for over 100 performances, but there's...
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London / Exhibitions
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth
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30th September 2010 and 16th January 2011
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Tate Modern, Bankside Power Station, 25 Sumner Street, Bankside,
London, SE19TG
15 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Gauguin as storyteller is the artist we discover in Gauguin: Maker of Myth, an exhibition at Tate Modern which brings...
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London / Exhibitions
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Francis Alys: A Story Of Deception
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15th June 2010 and 5th September 2010
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Tate Modern, Bankside Power Station, 25 Sumner Street, Bankside,
London, SE19TG
15 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alys presents a comprehensive review of his painting, sculpture and multimedia works at Tate Modern in...
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London / Theatre
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Legally Blonde - The Musical
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1st January 2010 and 29th October 2011
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Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2R0ET
15 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The 2001 film Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon, really was a fabulous addition to the dizzy world of chick flicks,...
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London / Shopping
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Covent Garden Real Food Market
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Every Thursday 11am-7pm
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Covent Garden Piazza, Covent Garden, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E9DD
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Covent Garden's Piazza returns to its original purpose, as a food market, every Thursday from 3rd April until Christmas 2010....
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London / Exhibitions
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Surreal House, The
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10th June 2010 and 12th September 2010
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Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, The City,
London, EC28DS
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
With contributions from Surrealists such as Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte, The Surreal House looks at how the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Ernesto Neto
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19th June 2010 and 5th September 2010
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The Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, South Bank,
London, SE18XZ
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The Hayward Gallery reopens on 17th June 2010, following closure from February to May for essential repairs, with two spectacular...
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London / Theatre
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Merry Wives Of Windsor, The
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14th August 2010 and 2nd October 2010
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside,
London, SE19DT
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Every Londoner or tourist to the city should at some point pay a visit to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which this...
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London / Tours
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London Night Hike
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17th September 2010
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Guildhall, Gresham Street, The City,
London, EC2P2EJ
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Walk 10 or 20 miles through late night London with exclusive access to iconic buildings with the sixth annual Maggie's...
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London / Theatre
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Prisoner Of Second Avenue, The
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30th June 2010 and 11th September 2010
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Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2R0NH
16 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Jeff Goldblum stars in the Old Vic's production at the Vaudeville Theatre of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, a 1970s-set...
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London / Theatre
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Love Never Dies
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1st May 2010 and 24th March 2011
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Adelphi Theatre, 18-20 Maiden Lane, The Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E7NA
17 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The long-awaited sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, makes its world premiere in London at the...
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London / Concerts
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MC Solaar
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10th September 2010
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Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, South Bank,
London, SE18XX
18 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The world's most famous non-English-speaking rapper, the Francophone hip hop artist MC Solaar, returns to the London with this gig...
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London / Concerts
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London Jazz Festival 2010
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12th November 2010 and 21st November 2010
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Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, South Bank,
London, SE18XX
18 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
If jazz is dead, someone forgot to tell the thousands of performers and fans who flock to the annual London...
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London / Seasonal
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Festival Brazil
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19th June 2010 and 5th September 2010
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Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, South Bank,
London, SE18XX
18 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
London is in for a summer of favela chic straight from the streets of Salvador with the Brazil Festival taking...
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London / Seasonal
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Lord Mayor's Show
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13th November 2010
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Mansion House, City of London, The City,
London, EC4N8BH
19 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
The Lord Mayor's Show features possibly the most dangerous and amazing of all the public fireworks shows in the capital:...
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London / Exhibitions
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London Open House Weekend
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18th September 2010 and 19th September 2010
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Bank of England Museum, Bartholomew Lane, Clerkenwell,
London, EC2R8AH
19 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
So many of London's architectural landmarks are closely guarded secrets, off-limits to Joe Public. It's tantalising to imagine what goes...
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London / Exhibitions
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Staffordshire Hoard, The
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3rd November 2009 and 31st December 2010
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British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury,
London, WC1B3DG
20 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
When it was discovered in July 2009 by metal detectorist Terry Herbert The Staffordshire Hoard was likened to the discovery...
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London / Theatre
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Faust
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25th September 2010 and 30th October 2010
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The Young Vic, 66 The Cut, South Bank,
London, SE18LZ
20 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Making its West End debut in September comes Faust, the universally known tale of a man who sells his soul...
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London / Film Events
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Deathtrap
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21st August 2010 and 22nd January 2011
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Noel Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4AU
21 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Deathtrap returns to the West End stage this summer featuring an all-star cast including Simon Russell Beale, Glee star Jonathan...
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London / Theatre
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Ghost Stories
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25th June 2010 and 7th September 2010
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Duke of York's, St Martins Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4BG
21 minutes walk from Doctor Johnson's House
Following a phenomenally successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith, Ghost Stories transfers to the Duke of York's theatre in the...
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