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Dance Nations Dalston at last year's Shoreditch Festival. Pic: Tim Mitchell

Previe: Beyond Barbican

The streets of east London are set to radiate with creative energy this summer as the Barbican rolls out pop-up performances, collaborations and festivals beyond its walls.

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CHIMERICA by Kirkwood,      , Writer - Lucy Kirkwood, Director - Lyndsey Turner, Design - Es Devlin, Almeida Theatre, London, 2013, Credit: Johan Persson/

Theatre review: Chimerica, Almeida Theatre, N1

The Almeida and the innovative touring company, Headlong, have combined to present this amazing production, ingeniuosly directed by Lyndsey Turner.

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Chicago Cowboy

Theatre review: The Chicago Cowboy, Rosemary Branch Theatre, N1

The Chicago Cowboy is based loosely on the lives of director Leah Townley’s grandparents and scripted by Katherine Pierce.

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Ian Brown from the Stone Roses performs at Finsbury Park, London.

Review: The Stone Roses, Finsbury Park, N4

With the citrus-sucking sunshine still casting a glaze over Finsbury Park on Friday evening, it might have seemed early at any other occasion for a headline act to appear. But considering the majority of this audience had waited for over two decades, there was little need for any more suspense.

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee,      ,Writer - Harper Lee, Director - Timothy Sheador, Designer - Jon Bausor, Regent Park Open Air Theatre, 2013, Credit: Johan Persson/

Theatre Review: To Kill a Mockingbird, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, NW1

Despite the bitterly cold winter and decidedly chilly spring we’ve all endured, it’s hard not to feel summer is just around the corner when the action starts at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

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Actor Alex Fearns play British soldier Gary in play Casualties which explores the effect that armed conflict in Afghanistan is having on soldiers and their families

Preview: Casualties at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park

Casualties is one of the first plays dealing with British armed military involvement in Afghanistan not to gloss over the issue, according to one of the lead actors in the production.

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Jennifer Kidd as Larisa and Sam Philips as Sergei Paratov in Larisa and the Merchants by Alexander Ostrovsky, in a new version by Samuel Adamson. ©Richard Davenport 2013.

Theatre review: Larisa and the Merchants, Arcola Theatre, E8

Lashings of authentic Roma Gypsy music and chilly Russian bite colour this engaging 19th century play by Ostrovsky, brought to life in its UK premiere by Insite Performance. Originally entitled, ‘Without A Dowry’, this version has been re-coined ‘Larisa and The Merchants’ by Samuel Adamson and it expertly details the wavering fickleness of the human spirit and the price of love.

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Taming of the Shew

Theatre Review: Taming of the Shrew. Theatro Technis, NW1

With a setting revision to the 1950s, when the times were a-changing, Theatro Technis welcomes a fresh twist on the established Shakespeare comedy.

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these shining lives

Theatre review: These Shining Lives, Park Theatre, N4

‘It begins like a fairy-tale’. With these lines, Charity Wakefield, playing Katie Donohue, opens These Shining Lives, and the Park Theatre’s inaugural season.

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Clare Richmond, founder of the Crouch End Project. Picture: Tony Gay

My Crouch End: Clare Richmond

The founder of the Crouch End Project talks Bob Dylan, backstage tours and homemade brownies.

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Sue Hessel

COMMENT: ‘The Crouch End Festival proves we care – why can’t Haringey Council do the same?’

The chairman of Haslemere Road Residents’ Association asks why local talent and effort is done a disservice by the local authority.

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Alan Davies was due to perform at the Brick Lane Comedy Festival. File picture: Yui Mok/PA

Brick Lane Comedy Festival cancelled after opposition from community groups

A comedy festival in east London due to feature acts including Al Murray, Alan Davies and Ed Byrne has been cancelled because of “heavy opposition from local community groups”.

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