Haringey Independent Leisure: What's On In Muswell Hill, Tottenham Crouch End and Wood Green

Ballet Black makes the right moves

5:34pm Friday 17th May 2013

The year got off to a very good start for Ballet Black, the dance company that highlights and celebrates black and Asian dancers.

Skinteeth, a new play by Dotun Adebayo, confronts the politically incorrect comics that blighted British television comedy in the 1970s

2:59pm Thursday 14th February 2013

The Monty Python team were really hitting their surrealist stride, Porridge confirmed Ronnie Barker’s place in comedy history and many of us pondered packing it all in for The Good Life. But British television during the ‘70s had a darker side. This was the period that also gave us The Black and White Minstrel Show, Mind Your Language and Love Thy Neighbour.

A plunge into extreme survival - Alaska at Jacksons Lane

3:02pm Thursday 14th February 2013

Join two self-proclaimed ‘good-old boys‘ as they set-off for one of the last great frontiers of the modern world – Alaska – a land where steam freezes, fish have mastered cryogenics and the Yukon river can make you disappear.

"It's a strange paradox that the characters we should hate are also the ones we find irresistible" - writer Patrick Prior on adapting Martina Cole's debut novel Dangerous Lady for the stage

12:43pm Thursday 18th October 2012

"It's a strange paradox that the characters we should hate are also the ones we find irresistible" - writer Patrick Prior on adapting Martina Cole's debut novel Dangerous Lady, which celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year, for the stage

Cabaret stars take on climate change

1:22pm Thursday 13th September 2012

Can a group of cabaret performers avert the end of the world? Rosy Moorhead investigates

Vintage is in - now a new play by Walthamstow theatre group BlockSeventeen explores our newfound notions of nostalgia

1:43pm Thursday 16th August 2012

Vintage is in - now a new play by Walthamstow theatre group BLOCKseventeen explores our newfound notions of nostalgia

When Chaplin met Gandhi: The two most famous men of their era once met in an east London community hall - playwright Jim Kenworth imagines what they talked about

1:24pm Thursday 16th August 2012

When Chaplin met Gandhi: The two most famous men of their era once met in an east London community hall - playwright Jim Kenworth imagines what they talked about

It's a hard day's night for the Bard

1:14pm Wednesday 4th July 2012

Shakespeare and The Beatles unite for an outdoor production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, writes Rosy Moorhead

• Millfield Arts Centre
• Principal Theatre Company

Darke side of the farm

1:42pm Wednesday 27th June 2012

Neil Sheffield stars and takes all the roles in the black comedy Bud. He talks to Rosy Moorhead

• Kings Head Theatre, Islington

Clash of Henry V

1:54pm Wednesday 27th June 2012

The all-male Propeller theatre company bring their unique brand of Shakespeare to Hampstead, writes Rosy Moorhead

• Hampstead Theatre
• Propeller Theatre