The second largest space within the sprawling Southbank Centre, the Queen Elizabeth Hall is where more prominent dance, music and performance events play out. QEH's brutalist architecture sits well with fellow venue the Hayward, both designed in the 1960s, and skaters have found a lively use for the vacant car park-like enclosure beneath it, turning it into a graffitied performance space.
The Takács Quartet presents Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2; String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 ('Serioso'); and String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (vers. with second finale). (Note: a pr...
The Takács Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1; String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 ('Harp'); and String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131. (Note: at 6.15pm there is a pre-conc...
Eagleman discusses his bestselling book, 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives,' a collection of imagined tales on life after death, with Pullman and broadcaster Kirsty Lang, alongside live and rec...
Iconic jazz-rock and post bop guitar hero Scofield numbers among the big three axe slingers in jazz (alongside Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell) and is widely known for his spiky funk and contrasting l...
Celebrated ECM-signed Polish trumpeter, whose distinctly European take on Chet Baker and Miles Davis is given a noir-ish twist by his new mainly-Norwegian electric band diving into obliquely filmic...
Pianist Glasper mixes his fluent Brad Mehldau-ish technique with a peerless understanding of fractured hip hop rhythms a la his mentor, the late, great J Dilla, and Bilal's impassioned, pimp strut ...
Tenor and soprano über virtuoso Marsalis's last studio album extended the minimal motifs of late period Coltrane and peerless soloing into a very 21st century spin. M-Base-inspired pianist Mitche...
US pianist/composer Bley remains an iconic figure in contemporary jazz, best known for spiking big band works with free-form improv. She's reunited here with her long standing quartet. Support come...
Exceptional ECM-signed British multi-reedist Surman has been setting the bar since his '60s work alongside John Mclaughlin. Here he celebrates his 65th birthday with a double bill - the first half ...
New work from physical theatre company Motionhouse, exploring the theme of water.
Following successful runs in the West End and Edinburgh, ZooNation's street dance theatre show - an urban fairytale based on Steven Sondheim's musical, 'Into the Woods' - plays at the Southbank thi...
In ZooNation's hit street-dance show (which borrows the idea, but not much else, of Sondheim's musical 'Into the Woods'), Li'l Red and the Wolf are an aspiring singer and a grasping producer; Rap-o...
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