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London / Concerts
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Thomas Ades
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27th April 2010
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Barbican Hall, Silk Street, The City,
London, EC2Y8DS
9 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Stripped of his deep layers of musical brilliance, the British composer and musician Thomas Ades performs in captivating simplicity with...
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London / Exhibitions
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Mayor's Thames Festival
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11th September 2010 and 12th September 2010
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Blackfriars Bridge, Victoria Embankment, The City,
London, EC4V3QR
14 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The Mayor's Thames Festival takes place in mid-September each year celebrating the main waterway which winds its way through the...
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London / Exhibitions
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London Open House Weekend
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18th September 2010 and 19th September 2010
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Bank of England Museum, Bartholomew Lane, Clerkenwell,
London, EC2R8AH
16 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
So many of London's architectural landmarks are closely guarded secrets, off-limits to Joe Public. It's tantalising to imagine what goes...
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London / Dance
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Akram Khan: Gnosis
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26th April 2010 and 27th April 2010
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Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell,
London, EC1R4TN
16 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The award-winning choreographer Akram Khan presents his new classical Kathak dance piece, Gnosis, a collaboration with Gauri Sharma Tripathi and...
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London / Dance
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Big Dance
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3rd July 2010 and 11th July 2010
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Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell,
London, EC1R4TN
16 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The biennial Big Dance festival is back, turning London into the dance capital for one week in July, and this...
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London / Seasonal
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Lord Mayor's Show
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13th November 2010
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Mansion House, City of London, The City,
London, EC4N8BH
17 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The Lord Mayor's Show features possibly the most dangerous and amazing of all the public fireworks shows in the capital:...
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London / Exhibitions
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth
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30th September 2010 and 16th January 2011
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Tate Modern, Bankside Power Station, 25 Sumner Street, Bankside,
London, SE19TG
20 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Gauguin as storyteller is the artist we discover in Gauguin: Maker of Myth, an exhibition at Tate Modern which brings...
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London / Theatre
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Oliver!
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12th December 2008 and 26th February 2011
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Catherine Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B5JF
20 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Lionel Bart's smashing Victorian musical has had two previous London productions which both ran for over 100 performances, but there's...
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London / Theatre
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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21st November 2009 and 10th April 2010
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Novello Theatre, Aldwych, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B4LD
21 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Standing alongside A Streetcar Named Desire as one of Tennessee Williams' timelessly exquisite (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) plays, Cat on a...
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London / Exhibitions
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Suburbia
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15th October 2009 and 31st March 2010
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London Transport Museum, 39 Wellington Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E7BB
22 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
This autumn the London Transport Museum stages a major exhibition on the enclaves that surround the city best known as...
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London / Shopping
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Leadenhall Market
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Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
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Leadenhall Market, Whittington Avenue, off Gracechurch Street, The City,
London, EC3V1LR
22 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Leadenhall Market is a restored Victorian covered market that sells traditional game, poultry, fish and meat. Although there has been...
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London / Theatre
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Nation
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11th November 2009 and 28th March 2010
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National Theatre, South Bank, South Bank,
London, SE19PX
23 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
With its puppets and projections, Nation is the play of choice for families looking for a little more sophistication from...
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London / Exhibitions
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Staffordshire Hoard, The
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3rd November 2009 and 31st December 2010
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British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury,
London, WC1B3DG
24 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
When it was discovered in July 2009 by metal detectorist Terry Herbert The Staffordshire Hoard was likened to the discovery...
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London / Theatre
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Private Lives
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24th February 2010 and 1st May 2010
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Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2R0NH
25 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall returns to the London stage with Matthew Macfadyen (Tom Quinn in Spooks) playing...
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London / Theatre
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Love Never Dies
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20th February 2010 and 23rd October 2010
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Adelphi Theatre, 18-20 Maiden Lane, The Strand, Covent Garden,
London, WC2E7NA
25 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The long-awaited sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, makes its world premiere in London at the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Ernesto Neto
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19th June 2010 and 5th September 2010
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The Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, South Bank,
London, SE18XZ
25 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
The Hayward Gallery reopens on 17th June 2010, following closure from February to May for essential repairs, with two spectacular...
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London / Theatre
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Polar Bears
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1st April 2010 and 22nd May 2010
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The Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden,
London, WC2H9LD
25 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
Mark Haddon, best-selling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has created his first work for...
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London / Tours
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Dennis Severs' House Tours
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Every Sunday
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Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street, Shoreditch,
London, E16BX
26 minutes walk from Smiths of Smithfield
A guided tour of Dennis Severs' House is one of the must-see attractions of hidden London. The living museum, the...
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