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An enchanting afternoon of classical music including Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and other renowned composers performed by The Flower Ballet’s string quartet will take place at Cadogan Hall on 27 April at 14.30 and 17.30. Six ballet dancers from Sophie Adams Ballet Company will enthral audiences with nine classical ballet excerpts from The Flower Ballet throughout this classical concert.
Event of the Week
Jamie Muscato will play Jay Gatsby and Frances Mayli McCann will be Daisy Buchanan when Producer Chunsoo Shin’s smash hit new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s landmark novel The Great Gatsby makes its West End debut at The London Coliseum this month. The show will run until Sunday 7 September.
Music of the Week
The National Portrait Gallery’s spring exhibition, Edvard Munch Portraits, is now open. Curated by Alison Smith, previously Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery and now Director of Collections and Research at the Wallace Collection, the exhibition shows how Munch (1863-1944) painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or archetypes of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals.
Exhibition of the Week
WICKED, the stage musical phenomenon that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, has introduced the 2025/26 West End company – led by Emma Kingston as Elphaba and Zizi Strallen as Glinda. Winner of more than 100 global awards, the production has now been seen by more than 12 million people in London alone and celebrated its 7000th performance at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on 15 November.