Originally a BBC television studio and home of TFI Friday’s. Now a fully established arts centre and cafe located by the river and hosting a range of film screenings (blockbuster, indie & foreign), plays, exhibitions and comedy events.

http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/

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Attached to the Young Vic Theatre and about a minute’s walk from Waterloo station, The Cut is a good alternative to the chain bars and restaurants of the Southbank. Main dishes - burgers, salads, mediterraneany type stuff - bar snacks, breakfast (‘til 11am), pastries and coffee, drinks, cocktails etc. Outside balcony too and buzzy atmosphere.

Location: SE1 8LZ | More info: here

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre season runs from 19th May - 11th September. Production-wise proceedings begin with Lord Of The Flies until 18th June, then it’s on to The Beggar’s Opera, then Pericles and rounding up with Crazy For You. Also scheduled are nights of comedy with Jimmy Carr, Jeremy Hardy and the Comedy Store Players, as well as music and a screening of Romeo & Juliet. 

More info: here + Facebook | Tickets: range from £14-£49.50 depending on event & seating area 

Tickets: range from £15-£75 (depending on day/time/seats) | Location: SW1Y 4DN | More info: here

Limited number of tickets for a limited selection of dates available.

Get tickets: £10-£30 | More info: here

“An irresistible production of a generous-hearted comedy” - The Times Culture.

Open: until 14th April | Location: WC2H 9LX | Read: Guardian review | Tickets: £10-32.50

About the life and loves of the opera singer Maria Callas. 

Until: 28th April | Read: Evening Standard review | Tickets: £25-52.50

Until: 28th April | Tickets: £15-49.50 | Location:  WC2N | Info: here

See plays put on by the actors and actresses of tomorrow; the chosen few who have made it onto a course at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts. They also run workshops for 16-24 year olds too. 

Browse: programme | Location: Malet Street

Cheap seats available for just £12 - including many weekend performances - for this Shakespeare production which has received amazing reviews from the Times, Telegraph (5*), Independent (4*), Evening Standard (5*) and the Guardian (“the only show in town”).

Until: 31st October | Tickets: here

★★★★ ‘Made me realise all over again why I love Chekhov’ Michael Billington, The Guardian

★★★★ ‘Absurdly good’ Evening Standard

“In a remote Russian town, Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for the adrenaline rush of life in Moscow – but their plans go nowhere. Disaster, deception, meaningless self-sacrifice – in Chekhov’s heartbreaking masterpiece, each new twist of fate sees the sisters’ control over their destiny slip away.”

Tickets: £10-30

1. Quartermaine’s Terms: Rowan Atkinson, 23rd January - 13th April, Wyndham’s Theatre | tickets
2. The Judas Kiss | Rupert Everett, until 9th April, Royal Court Theatre | tickets
3. Old Times: Kristin Scott Thomas, until 6th April, Harold Pinter Theatre | tickets
4. People: Frances de la Tour, until 2nd April, National Theatre | tickets
5. Peter and Alice: Judi Dench, Ben Whishaw, 9th March - 1st June, Noel Coward Theatre | tickets
6. No Quarter | Polly Stenham play, until 9th February, Royal Court Theatre | day tickets only

“Telling the story of 115 years of family life, Table is a multi-generational story of love, ghosts and how to live. Six generations, nine performers, thirty parts and one special piece of furniture.”

**** in the Telegraph, Independent and The Times

Tickets: £12-20