April Culture Fix: 7 Things To Do, See & Watch This Month
From the 1930s-themed immersive experience to book to Disney+’s next series that’ll sweep you off your feet, read on for our edit of the best cultural events and happenings this month.
The Culture Fix is an edit of our favourite new launches, TV shows and pop-up events happening in London. It’s a space to inspire the month ahead – read on to find out our April favourites.
Cultural events and happenings to know this month
The Immersive Experience To Book: The Greatest Night Of The Jazz Age
You’re invited to travel back in time to 1930s New York and experience the Opening Night of Belle Livingstone’s 58th Street Country Club – the last and greatest of Manhattan’s Prohibition-era supper clubs.
Set in 1930, in the last wild days of the Jazz Age, the experience follows one-time socialite, showgirl and Moonshine entrepreneur, Belle Livingstone as she opens her final and most debaucherous nightclub – The 58th Street Country Club. Fuelled by bourbon and jazz, the club is a playground for Hollywood Queens, Harlem Kings and Park Avenue Tycoons. That is, until it gets raided by Federal agents on opening night, never to open again.
Conjured through brilliant theatrical performances, wild dance, stunning sets, and a New York-inspired feast, this raucous true story of jazz and desire is the London experience you can’t miss out on.
Running until 30.07.2023
Book here
The New Theatre Show: Dancing at Lughnasa
It’s 1936, harvest time and the Mundey sisters are battling poverty in the fight to raise seven-year-old Michael and care for their Uncle Jack.
The award-winning drama from the writer of Translations, the National Theatre’s show sees these girls fight, love, dance, yearn and live to survive during the Festival of Lughnasa.
Running 06.04.2023 – 27.05.2023
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
The Must-See Exhibition: Bijijoo
The most fascinating art is the kind that breaks the boundaries as we know them. This month head to Saatchi Yates to soak up the solo exhibition of American TikTok sensation Michael Todd Horne, aka Bijijoo.
On display until the end of May, the exhibition takes a look Horne’s personal world of monsters and characters that helped garner him the cult social media figure he is today. Bizarre and brilliant, every painting comes alive using traditional and digital techniques to build these chaotic cartoon-style characters.
Running until 28.05.2023
www.saatchiyates.com
The New TV Series To Binge: Tiny Beautiful Things
The second of Cheryl Strayed’s tomes to be adapted, Tiny Beautiful Things is Hulu’s latest series that’s guaranteed to sweep you off your feet.
Available to stream on Disney+, the series brings to life the American author’s collection of essays that made up her anonymous advice column. Follow Clare (Kathryn Hahn) as she reluctantly takes on his unpaid role as she battles her own struggles and life as a creative.
Out 07.04.2023
www.disneyplus.com
The New Podcast To Listen To: Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil
Having started her career as a host on Channel 4’s T4, Jamila Jamil has since gone on to become an unapologetic actress and activist striving for equal rights. In her brand new podcast, she heads down a different route, chatting with all of her celebrity friends about their worst dates.
The weekly comedy podcast will see her team up with the likes of Conan O’Brien, Sean Hayes, Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon and more to reveal some of the most tragic dating stories out there.
The Book Everyone’s Talking About: Romantic Comedy – Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy follows successful TV script writer Sally Milz who has always put her career ahead of her love life. That is until her friend and fellow writer starts dating a big-time Hollywood actress, becoming the next victim of average-looking men who date accomplished, beautiful women.
As a result, Sally’s social circle expands and she soon meets a pop icon who only has a reputation for dating models but would he ever date her?
Witty and heartwarming, we can already tell this one is a book-to-screen adaptation in the making.
Out 06.04.2023
www.waterstones.com
The Film We’re Excited For: Polite Society
An action-comedy wedding heist? You can count us in. Nid Manzoor’s Polite Society follows Ria Khan, a martial artist-in-training who embarks on a quest to pull off a rather over-ambitious wedding heist in order to save her sister. But will she be able to keep it all together without cracking the sisterhood code?
Out 28.04.2023
www.picturehouses.com
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