South Acton Area Guide

Headliners Comedy in Chiswick. See a variety of stand-up comedians.

Hosted by Professor Louise Jackson. Please join us on Thursday 28th May for a special panel to celebrate the life and work of Dame Gillian Lynne. Doors 6:30pm Panel 7:00pm-8:00pm in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre followed by nibbles and refreshments in the atrium. Running time: Approximately 1 hour Our guests include: Chrissie Cartwright Chrissie appeared in the original west end casts of Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum and Blondel and in variety at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace. Television includes The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, Theres Something Wrong in Paradise, The Stanley Baxter Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show and The Good Old Days. She appears in The Great Muppet Caper, Lassiter, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and Mama Mia! Here We Go Again. Chrissie staged and choreographed the original West End productions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes The Musical and the London premiere of Mack and Mabel. She choreographed The Entertainer, Devils Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, On The Twentieth Century, Witches of Eastwick and the musical staging for the Showbizpops Orchestras concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. More recently she has co-choreographed the UK tour of Miss Saigon. For television she choreographed Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones and Hit Dancing. As associate director and choreographer - the London, New York and Australian productions of Five Guys Named Moe, worldwide productions of Cats and as associate choreographer, the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom Of The Opera. She was associate to Gillian Lynne on The Likes of Us, Brick by Bricusse and Dear World; was childrens director on Mary Poppins and resident director on Cats, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Sister Act and Wizard of Oz. Chrissie directed To Gillie With Love at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and was movement director on The Private Ear and The Public Eye and Birdsong for the Original Theatre Company. She is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music where she has staged many productions including This is The Hour a celebration of the music of Claude-Michel Schnberg. Peter Land CHAIR OF TRUSTEES Lynne & Land Foundation As an actor, singer and performer, Peter Land has had an international career encompassing work ranging from classical acting to musical theatre - roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, to performing in musical theatre including My Fair Lady, Cabaret, The Phantom of the Opera and Ruthless! The Musical. Through their production company, Peter and his wife Gillian Lynne produced charity galas and ballets, as well as shows specifically for smaller theatres such as the Kings Head and Jermyn Street. They have supported a wide spectrum of the performing arts including the development of the new Sadlers Wells Theatre. Married to Gillian for 38 years, theirs was a true partnership based on mutual respect and a combined love of life and work. Supporting individuals and institutions has been a constant theme throughout their lives and is an inherent part of Peters ethos for the Foundation. Sir Luke Rittner Trustee Lynne and Land Foundation Luke brings vast experience to the Foundation from his many roles within the Arts world. He was Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Dance from 1999 to April 2022, leading the company for twenty three years. Previously he was Secretary General of the Arts Council of Great Britain, Communications Director for Sothebys Europe, and in earlier years ran the Bath Festival. Luke was also Founder-Director of the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts (Arts & Business). Luke has served on many arts boards, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Council. He was a non-executive Director of Carlton Television and was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Luke holds an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of Bath and an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of Durham. He is a governor of The Royal Ballet In 2023 Luke was awarded a Knighthood in the first New Year Honours list issued by His Majesty The King. Luke received a CBE in 2017 for his services to the arts, particularly dance. Sierra Boggess SIERRA BOGGESS is an Olivier nominated actress who is regarded as one of Broadways most beloved leading ladies. Best known world-wide not only for re-inventing the coveted role of Christine Daae in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera, but for Lord Webber himself going on record to say that shes the best, the best Christine certainly. Boggess portrayed the role in the Broadway, West End, and the televised 25th Anniversary concert productions of Phantom. Sierra made her Broadway debut as Ariel in Disneys The Little Mermaid, receiving Drama Desk and Drama League Nominations, as well as the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Female Breakthrough Performance. Her additional Broadway credits include Master Class, It Shoulda Been You, The Phantom of The Opera, School of Rock and Harmony. Boggess Off-Broadway credits include The Goodbye Girl, Harmony, Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Music in the Air, alongside Kristin Chenoweth, for New York City Centers Encores! Series. In the West End, Boggess has appeared as Fantine in Les Misrables and originated the role of Christine Daae in Love Never Dies, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, receiving an Olivier Award Nomination for her performance. Most recently Sierra originated the role of Emma Dawes in the World Premiere production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago. All proceeds will go towards our bursary fund, ensuring ArtsEd remains accessible and keeping the door of opportunity open to talented individuals. If you wish to find out more about how you can support please visit:Support us [https://artsed.co.uk/support-us/] or contact a member of the development team on [email protected]. Footage from some of our previous panels: In Conversation International Womens Day Panel International Women's Day Panel [https://artsed.co.uk/news/international womens day 2026/] In conversation with ArtsEd alumni Tuppence Middleton In Convo with Tuppence Middleton [https://staging.artsed.co.uk/news/in-conversation-with-tuppence-middleton/] In conversation with Alumni Emily Lane, Kelvin Ade and Samuel Creasy. In Convo with Alumni [https://staging.artsed.co.uk/news/in-conversation-with-alumni/]

Info Middlesex Pride takes place on Sunday the 2nd August 2026. Middlesex Pride is a community-led organisation celebrating the diverse LGBTQIA+ people of Middlesex. Our annual family-friendly, free, Pride event is the first of its kind, a centrepiece of a wider, year-round programme of works to make our communities visible, creating a safe space where we can be ourselves. We are building solidarity across communities here and showing that Middlesex is a place to be proud of. Theme To follow Parade No parade Festival To follow After party To follow

Celebrate the final day of the Festival among friends, with delicious freshly-prepared food in the beautiful Vicarage Garden. Booking essential!

Join us on one of our tours, where an experienced tour guide will accompany you and a small group through the main rooms in the house and (weather permitting) the garden, bringing to life the history of this unique Arts & Crafts home. The tour concludes in our small exhibition room. Tours are approximately an hour and a half in length. All tours take place at 11am and 1pm on Thursdays and Saturdays.

The writing of the songs that became Heart Like a Levee started in a hotel room in Washington, DC , in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that darkened the East Coast. At that time I was feelingmore acutely than I had ever felt beforewrenched apart by my responsibilities to my family and to my music. Forgetting, momentarily, that for me, each exists only with the other. How could I forget? Though maybe my lapse was reasonable: I had just quit my job, the most recent and last, in a series of dead-end gigs stretching back 20 years, with the vow that my children would understand their father as a man in love with his world and the inventor of his own days. They would be rare in that regard. And thendriven by monthly bills and pure fear I left for another tour, carrying a load of guilt that I could just barely lift. But in that snowy hotel room I found the refrain that became my compass: I was a dreamer, babe, when I set out on the road; but did I say I could find my way home? Through the spring and summer, while traveling and when I was off the road and at home in Durham, I wrote about lovethe teaching kind and the destroying kindand about movement, and being moved, really and truly moved. I wrote about our responsibilities to our brothers and sistersof blood and the roadand how easy it can be to abdicate those responsibilities at the slightest threat of bad weather. I reckoned with things that I couldn't see, but I could feel; and in so feeling begin to understand as real to me and those whom I love. I carried my piece of the fire, or tried to. The heart is a beautiful vessel, prone to failure and breathtaking acts of grace. An impermanent, permeable thing, lovely for its changeability, blameless for its fallibility. It's hard to even begin to conceive of how to measure our boundaries. Heart Like a Levee is my taking stock of my universe, my span, my inventory, my leave-taking and return over back roads so blue they look black until the dawn. Heart Like a Levee was recorded in the fall and winter of 2015. It was produced by myself and Brad Cook, who also played bass. Phil Cook played the piano and organ and guitar, and Matt McCaughan played the drums and percussion. Our friends Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Tift Merritt, Michael Lewis, Matt Douglas, Chris Boerner, Josh Kaufman, Ryan Gustafson, Sonyia Turner and Jon Ashley all contributed in important ways that you can read about in the album credits. I have dedicated every day to song. I have been traveling all my life. And I understand that I am so lucky, and I am thankful. Money is easy enough to find if you want it bad enough; but art, true deep art full of grace that shakes and terrifies the soul, is an elusive spirit and damn near impossible to come by. So sitting in this sunny backyard at the end of this journey that I took with my friends and family, everyone that I love and some of whom did not even realize they were on this trip, I'm thinking: We found it. Goddammit, everybody: We found it. And that's a rare feeling indeed. And it's all just a moment. M.C. Taylor Durham, North Carolina 15 June 2016