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Visitors can be part of London’s great Easter tradition on Good Friday 29 March, at 14.30, when one of the UK’s oldest and most respected choirs, the Royal Choral Society, returns to the Royal Albert Hall for its annual performance of Handel’s Messiah. This really is the perfect way to start your Easter weekend!

Event of the Week

The European premiere of the stage adaptation of Spirited Away at the London Coliseum will open on 30 April, and will now play until 24 August. Director Hayao Miyazaki's timeless masterpiece became an explosive blockbuster after its 2001 release and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003.

Music of the Week

The National Portrait Gallery’s major spring exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, is a showcase of work by 22 leading African diasporic artists, working in the UK and USA. Exploring the depiction of the Black figure within portraiture, the exhibition features contemporary works – made between the year 2000 and today – that consider and celebrate figuration as a means of illuminating the richness and complexity of Black life. 

Exhibition of the Week

Priscilla The Party! opens this month at HERE, part of the new £1bn Outernet development, an electrifying and high tech venue at Denmark Street in Soho, which has swiftly become ‘London’s most visited attraction’. Based on the Oscar-winning movie and Tony Award and Olivier Award winning musical, the show tells the same heart-warming, uplifting story of three friends, who hop aboard a battered old bus to seek fame and fortune in Alice Springs.

Theatre of the Week