The Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute (HLSI) are holding their annual Winter fair – Christmas Magic – with a free preview on Friday 28 November at 5.30pm for people at work and who can’t make it to the fair on Saturday 29 November, 11am to 5pm. Many stalls selling wondrous things, and there will be a Tombola and a Lucky Dip for children! The building itself is a joy to visit. See you there for mulled wine and mince pies.
The Talented Mr Ripley
USA 1999, 139 mins. Dir. Anthony Minghella
With Margaret Hodge MP and Leonard Hoffman
George McGhee, former BBC Controller of Programmes, introduces extracts from some wonderful dancing partnerships from the career of the man Nureyev called, ‘the greatest dancer in American history.’
Book by Neil Simon
Music by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line)
Lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels)
Directed by Adam Lenson
Spiezak productions presents the first London revival of The Goodbye Girl. A musical from the writers of The Odd Couple, A Chorus Line and City of Angels.
Paula McFaden is an out of work dancer, the wrong side of thirty, who has watched too many men say goodbye. When hapless actor Elliot Garfield knocks on the door of her New York apartment, his dreams of stardom and her dreams of stability become a shared nightmare.
The Goodbye Girl is a wry, comic musical about letting go of your baggage and learning to love the unexpected. It is based on Neil Simon‘s Academy Award and Golden Globe award winning film and features the same unique humour that has made Simon the most popular playwright in Broadway History, fused with a vibrant, cinematic score that stands among Hamlisch‘s strongest work.
Director: Adam Lenson
Set and Costume Design: Suzi Lombardelli
Musical Director: Richard Bates
Choreography: Claira Vaughan
Lighting Design: Aaron J Dootson
Peformances:
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees: Saturdays 7th, 14th & 28th at 3pm & Sundays 15th & 22nd at 4pm
Tickets:
Previews 4th & 5th Feb – £15
Full Price – £18-£22
Concessions – £16-£20
Book by Neil Simon
Music by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line)
Lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels)
Directed by Adam Lenson
Spiezak productions presents the first London revival of The Goodbye Girl. A musical from the writers of The Odd Couple, A Chorus Line and City of Angels.
Paula McFaden is an out of work dancer, the wrong side of thirty, who has watched too many men say goodbye. When hapless actor Elliot Garfield knocks on the door of her New York apartment, his dreams of stardom and her dreams of stability become a shared nightmare.
The Goodbye Girl is a wry, comic musical about letting go of your baggage and learning to love the unexpected. It is based on Neil Simon‘s Academy Award and Golden Globe award winning film and features the same unique humour that has made Simon the most popular playwright in Broadway History, fused with a vibrant, cinematic score that stands among Hamlisch‘s strongest work.
Director: Adam Lenson
Set and Costume Design: Suzi Lombardelli
Musical Director: Richard Bates
Choreography: Claira Vaughan
Lighting Design: Aaron J Dootson
Peformances:
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees: Saturdays 7th, 14th & 28th at 3pm & Sundays 15th & 22nd at 4pm
Tickets:
Previews 4th & 5th Feb – £15
Full Price – £18-£22
Concessions – £16-£20
USA 2012, 105 mins. Dir. Yaron Zilberman
This year’s Children’s Book Fair on Saturday 28th February at HLSI welcomes special guest Clara Vulliamy (Martha & the Bunny Brothers, Small, Tom & Small, Lucky Wish Mouse, Dixie O’Day), following in the footsteps of previous guests including Alex T. Smith, Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen, Allan Ahlberg, Helen Oxenbury and, of course, Clara’s mother, Shirley Hughes.
There will be secondhand books for sale, children’s activities, home-made cakes and biscuits and Clara’s books will be sold by Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop. Clara will be on stage at 11 to read from her books and to draw for us, and she’ll stay to sign copies of her books.
The Fair runs from 10 until 1 at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Pond Square, N6 6BS.
Book by Neil Simon
Music by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line)
Lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels)
Directed by Adam Lenson
Spiezak productions presents the first London revival of The Goodbye Girl. A musical from the writers of The Odd Couple, A Chorus Line and City of Angels.
Paula McFaden is an out of work dancer, the wrong side of thirty, who has watched too many men say goodbye. When hapless actor Elliot Garfield knocks on the door of her New York apartment, his dreams of stardom and her dreams of stability become a shared nightmare.
The Goodbye Girl is a wry, comic musical about letting go of your baggage and learning to love the unexpected. It is based on Neil Simon‘s Academy Award and Golden Globe award winning film and features the same unique humour that has made Simon the most popular playwright in Broadway History, fused with a vibrant, cinematic score that stands among Hamlisch‘s strongest work.
Director: Adam Lenson
Set and Costume Design: Suzi Lombardelli
Musical Director: Richard Bates
Choreography: Claira Vaughan
Lighting Design: Aaron J Dootson
Peformances:
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees: Saturdays 7th, 14th & 28th at 3pm & Sundays 15th & 22nd at 4pm
Tickets:
Previews 4th & 5th Feb – £15
Full Price – £18-£22
Concessions – £16-£20
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees:
Sunday 8th at 4pm & 7pm; Saturday 14th at 3pm; & Sunday 15th at 4pm
After a sell out run of The Jewish Legacy celebrating the Jewish contribution to musical theatre, Aria Entertainment returns with a new production; The Jewish Legends.
A celebration of some of the greatest Jewish performers in entertainment history!
Why did American Jews find such success in the world of entertainment? Because they arrived in America in the late nineteenth century with nothing but a gift to peddle. And what better to peddle than a song, a dance or a comic routine.
This show uniquely explores a century of song, dance and comedy with a nod to some legendary performers such as Barbra Streisand, Al Jolson, Bette Midler, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel and Groucho Marx. Song writers include Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Leonard Cohen.
Their songs, their lives, their stories.
Featuring a cast of four fantastic singers; Steve Serlin, Martin Neely, Joanna Lee, Molly Marie Walsh and a live band.
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Stewart Nicholls
Arrangements by Andy Collyer
Produced by Katy Lipson
Tickets:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: £14/£12 concessions
Thursdays, Fridays & Matinees: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday Nights: £18/£16 concessions
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees:
Sunday 8th at 4pm & 7pm; Saturday 14th at 3pm; & Sunday 15th at 4pm
After a sell out run of The Jewish Legacy celebrating the Jewish contribution to musical theatre, Aria Entertainment returns with a new production; The Jewish Legends.
A celebration of some of the greatest Jewish performers in entertainment history!
Why did American Jews find such success in the world of entertainment? Because they arrived in America in the late nineteenth century with nothing but a gift to peddle. And what better to peddle than a song, a dance or a comic routine.
This show uniquely explores a century of song, dance and comedy with a nod to some legendary performers such as Barbra Streisand, Al Jolson, Bette Midler, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel and Groucho Marx. Song writers include Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Leonard Cohen.
Their songs, their lives, their stories.
Featuring a cast of four fantastic singers; Steve Serlin, Martin Neely, Joanna Lee, Molly Marie Walsh and a live band.
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Stewart Nicholls
Arrangements by Andy Collyer
Produced by Katy Lipson
Tickets:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: £14/£12 concessions
Thursdays, Fridays & Matinees: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday Nights: £18/£16 concessions
The third Highgate Debate to be held at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution tackles the issue
of current drugs policy. Our two prominent speakers take opposing positions, roughly equating
to a ‘tender’ or a ‘tough’ approach to users. Molly Meacher will argue for a more liberal drugs
policy, while Will Blair will oppose any change. As with previous debates, they will be supported
by seconders from local 6th forms. Members of the audience will then be invited to make
contributions from the floor. The Debates will be free and open to the general public, as well as
HLSI members.
THE DEBATE ‘DRUGS POLICY: TOUGH OR TENDER?’
WHEN Thursday 5 March 2015, 8.00pm, doors open at 7.30pm
WHERE Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London N6 6BS
HOW Free and open to all, but to be sure of a place please book.
Please Note: Places not taken by 7.45pm may be offered to others
Reservations may be made in person, by phone or by email:
tel: 020 8340 3343; email: admin@hlsi.net
For further information please contact Kathy Dallas: gkzwdallas@aol.com
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees:
Sunday 8th at 4pm & 7pm; Saturday 14th at 3pm; & Sunday 15th at 4pm
After a sell out run of The Jewish Legacy celebrating the Jewish contribution to musical theatre, Aria Entertainment returns with a new production; The Jewish Legends.
A celebration of some of the greatest Jewish performers in entertainment history!
Why did American Jews find such success in the world of entertainment? Because they arrived in America in the late nineteenth century with nothing but a gift to peddle. And what better to peddle than a song, a dance or a comic routine.
This show uniquely explores a century of song, dance and comedy with a nod to some legendary performers such as Barbra Streisand, Al Jolson, Bette Midler, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel and Groucho Marx. Song writers include Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Leonard Cohen.
Their songs, their lives, their stories.
Featuring a cast of four fantastic singers; Steve Serlin, Martin Neely, Joanna Lee, Molly Marie Walsh and a live band.
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Stewart Nicholls
Arrangements by Andy Collyer
Produced by Katy Lipson
Tickets:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: £14/£12 concessions
Thursdays, Fridays & Matinees: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday Nights: £18/£16 concessions
Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.
Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.
For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.
However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.
Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday
Admission free
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees:
Sunday 8th at 4pm & 7pm; Saturday 14th at 3pm; & Sunday 15th at 4pm
After a sell out run of The Jewish Legacy celebrating the Jewish contribution to musical theatre, Aria Entertainment returns with a new production; The Jewish Legends.
A celebration of some of the greatest Jewish performers in entertainment history!
Why did American Jews find such success in the world of entertainment? Because they arrived in America in the late nineteenth century with nothing but a gift to peddle. And what better to peddle than a song, a dance or a comic routine.
This show uniquely explores a century of song, dance and comedy with a nod to some legendary performers such as Barbra Streisand, Al Jolson, Bette Midler, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel and Groucho Marx. Song writers include Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Leonard Cohen.
Their songs, their lives, their stories.
Featuring a cast of four fantastic singers; Steve Serlin, Martin Neely, Joanna Lee, Molly Marie Walsh and a live band.
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Stewart Nicholls
Arrangements by Andy Collyer
Produced by Katy Lipson
Tickets:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: £14/£12 concessions
Thursdays, Fridays & Matinees: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday Nights: £18/£16 concessions
Liz has created a collection of paintings of plants in close detail: uprooted, revealing their complex structures and individual history, and full of visual delight. Although not intended as a scientific study, the paintings bring us to a new relationship with nature.
Liz Miranda’s life as an artist has an international flavour. She was born in Iran, studied in England and France, worked, taught and exhibited, mainly in Brazil, and then returned to England to paint, etch, bring up a family and teach. She continues to teach, concentrating on painting from direct observation. In 2010 Liz exhibited at the Highgate Gallery and in this show her work is, as always, in oil on canvas or wood.
For the past few years Liz has been painting plants in close detail. She likes to work with the whole shape of each plant but also wants to focus on its component parts – roots, stalks, seed-heads, pods, the changes of colour, the texture and thickness of stem with the position on it of the leaves and nodes.
However realistic, her works are not illustrations. Liz wants them to be true but accuracy is not the goal: they are paintings. Painting is the second stage of freezing the potential development of these natural forms; though they were already denied growth when uprooted from the soil.
Her subjects range from modest London weeds to exotic plants, flowers, trees and grasses of the tropics. All are closely observed to reveal their individual integrity.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00
Saturday 11:00-16:00
Sunday 11:00-17:00
Closed Monday
Admission free
Tuesdays – Saturdays 7.30pm
Matinees:
Sunday 8th at 4pm & 7pm; Saturday 14th at 3pm; & Sunday 15th at 4pm
After a sell out run of The Jewish Legacy celebrating the Jewish contribution to musical theatre, Aria Entertainment returns with a new production; The Jewish Legends.
A celebration of some of the greatest Jewish performers in entertainment history!
Why did American Jews find such success in the world of entertainment? Because they arrived in America in the late nineteenth century with nothing but a gift to peddle. And what better to peddle than a song, a dance or a comic routine.
This show uniquely explores a century of song, dance and comedy with a nod to some legendary performers such as Barbra Streisand, Al Jolson, Bette Midler, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel and Groucho Marx. Song writers include Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Leonard Cohen.
Their songs, their lives, their stories.
Featuring a cast of four fantastic singers; Steve Serlin, Martin Neely, Joanna Lee, Molly Marie Walsh and a live band.
Written by Chris Burgess
Directed by Stewart Nicholls
Arrangements by Andy Collyer
Produced by Katy Lipson
Tickets:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: £14/£12 concessions
Thursdays, Fridays & Matinees: £16/£14 concessions
Saturday Nights: £18/£16 concessions