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Review: Saria Callas at Camden People’s Theatre

4 days ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Lucy Popescu

Saria Amini, writer, performer and co-director of Saria Callas [Harry Elletson]SARIA CALLASCamden People’s Theatre3.5 starsPresented by the award-winning international company Seemia Theatre, this arresting one-woman show – written, performed, and co-directed by Iranian artist Saria Amini – draws on her lived experiences to explore what it means to push back against repression and find one’s voice.
Tributes paid to ‘luminous’ Cleo at the Actors’ Church

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Zeb Soanes, Jax King, Ben Onwukwe, Sara Kestelman and Cecilia DarkerTHE “Actors’ Church” in Covent Garden was packed to the rafters with people, some who had travelled from Australia, to celebrate the life of the “luminous” actor, singer and playwright Cleo Sylvestre. Ms Sylvestre died from a stroke last year, aged 79, after a varied career across the arts, having grown up on the Regent’s Park Estate.
Theatre plans threat to an ‘oasis’

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Garden manager Louise Gates, head gardener Niki Barnett-Henry, and historian Jane Palm-GoldA MUCH-LOVED oasis in the heart of the West End is under threat after a towering hotel development was given the green light. The Phoenix Garden is behind the former Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, and on Monday, councillors voted to let developers Yoo Capital create a new basement theatre on the site of the Grade-II listed art deco venue and add a five-storey hotel on top.
Substation blaze and oil close canal

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

Mary Emma HollyAN oil spill caused by a massive inferno in an electricity substation has shut down a two-mile stretch of the Regent’s Canal. Canal chiefs issued a “do not move” order to boaters between Paddington and Camden Lock as they worked with the National Grid to stop the spread of the slick. The oil has been oozing out of a tunnel closed since the “major incident” in Aberdeen Place, Lisson Grove, on Tuesday morning.
How ‘trailblazing’ artist left an indelible mark on tattoo trade

3 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Isabel Loubser

TATTOO artists from across the globe will be reunited next week as they gather to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first meeting on the London Tattoo Society, held in Clerkenwell. It was 1955 when Cash Cooper, who was born in Calabria Road, Highbury, initially organised the meeting of tattoo superstars, including Les Skuse and Jessie Knight, in the Horseshoe pub.
Crime warning over 3am colonel

3 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

THE Metropolitan Police made a passionate plea to licensing chiefs yesterday, Thursday, urging them to block KFC from opening until 3am in a West End crime “hotspot”. Westminster PC Thomas Cooke said young people getting a late-night takeaway would be targeted by muggers and conmen as they left the branch in Charing Cross Road, and the application if granted would be in clear breach of city council policies.
Day of action by street performers

3 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

[David Bennett]STREET performers have unveiled a major day of action in a fightback against a council licensing regime. The event in Covent Garden is billed as a reminder to the city council that public spaces can thrive without restrictive regulations. Poet John Hegley, who began his celebrated career busking in the famous square, is among a string of acts booked for the free shows on May 11.
Dead artist’s family calls on TfL to act

4 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell

In its tribute, the prestigious Lisson Gallery, in Lisson Grove, described Sarah Cunningham as ‘an incredibly talented, intelligent and original artist’ and with an ‘indomitable character’ [George Darrell courtesy of Lisson Gallery]CALLS have been made for platform barriers to be put up in tube stations – despite the huge cost – following the death of a talented artist on the London Underground.
‘I’ve seen it happen, people die when benefits are taken away’

1 month ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Angus BeatonA WOMAN has warned of the consequences of stopping disability benefits after her brother died from a drug overdose. Camden Town resident Alison Charlton said she feared “people will die” as a result of Labour’s plan to cut personal independence payments (PIP) She said her brother Angus Beaton’s life changed for the worse when his PIP was axed under the Conservative government. The 69-year-old fell into a life of despair and drug use before his death in 2019.
Cher Maximen murder: Man guilty of stabbing mother at carnival

1 month ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

Shakeil Thibou: guilty of killing Cher MaximenA MAN had been convicted of murder after a mother was stabbed in front of her daughter at Notting Hill Carnival. Shakeil Thibou, 20, of Masbro Road, Hammersmith, was convicted of Cher Maximen’s murder, attempted GBH with intent and possession of an offensive weapon. The court heard that Cher had spent the afternoon with her daughter and her friends among a crowd when she was caught up in an attack between rival men in Golborne Road.