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London / Shopping
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Cabbages and Frocks Market
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Every Saturday
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Cabbages and Frocks Market, St Marylebone Parish Church Grounds, Marylebone High Street, Marylebone,
London, W1U5BA
8 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Every Saturday, Cabbages and Frocks Market makes a welcome return to Marylebone, making a weekend stroll up the pretty high...
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London / Exhibitions
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Frieze Art Fair
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14th October 2010 and 17th October 2010
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Regent's Park, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, Marylebone,
London, NW14NR
12 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
As the country's leading contemporary art fair, the Frieze Art Fair is far from conventional and there's always the possibility...
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London / Theatre
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Wizard Of Oz, The
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29th March 2011 and 17th September 2011
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London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, Soho,
London, W1F7TF
14 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz! Following a televised talent show search for a Dorothy...
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London / Concerts
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Proms in the Park 2010
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11th September 2010
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Hyde Park, Rangers Lodge, Mayfair,
London, W22UH
16 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
The world famous Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall is one of the most sought after...
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London / Theatre
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Open Air Theatre
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24th May 2010 and 11th September 2010
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Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, Marylebone,
London, NW14NR
17 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
This is the 78th season for The Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and seeing a play here is really an...
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London / Theatre
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Into The Woods
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5th August 2010 and 11th September 2010
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Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, Marylebone,
London, NW14NR
17 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical re-telling of stories of the Brothers Grimm, creates a magical world that's ideally...
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London / Exhibitions
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Sargent and the Sea
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10th July 2010 and 26th September 2010
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Mayfair,
London, W1J0BD
19 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Best known for his society portraits, American artist John Singer Sargent was also passionate about the sea, a subject which recurs...
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London / Exhibitions
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010
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14th June 2010 and 22nd August 2010
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Mayfair,
London, W1J0BD
19 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Anyone can submit to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the world's largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition, which gives it a...
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London / Sporting Events
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Peter Pan Cup Swimming Race
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25th December 2010
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Serpentine Boating Lake, The Boat House, Serpentine Road, Mayfair,
London, W22UH
21 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
This lot are a hardy bunch but tradition is tradition and members of the Serpentine Swimming Club have been plunging...
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London / Comedy
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Neil Hamburger
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23rd August 2010 and 28th August 2010
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Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, Soho,
London, W1D3NE
22 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger coughs and splutters his way to the Soho Theatre for six nights of crude, subversive and...
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London / Theatre
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Hair
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1st April 2010 and 8th January 2011
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Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho,
London, W1D6AR
22 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
The original Broadway cast are transferring to London's West End for this latest production of Hair, the 1960s musical written...
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London / Theatre
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All My Sons
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19th May 2010 and 2nd October 2010
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Apollo Theatre, 29 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho,
London, W1D7EZ
22 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
David Suchet, best known for his perfectly neat portrayal of Hercule Poirot in the eponymous ITV detective series, and the...
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London / Theatre
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39 Steps, The
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14th September 2006 and 23rd October 2010
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Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, St James's,
London, SW1Y4XA
24 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Hitchcock's 1935 movie is a masterpiece of sustained adventure, as the hero - framed for murder - becomes both pursuer...
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London / Comedy
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This Is Reggie Watts
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29th July 2010 and 31st July 2010
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Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, Bloomsbury,
London, WC1H0AH
24 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Brooklyn-based musical comedian Reggie Watts heads to the Bloomsbury Theatre for the long anticipated follow-up to his sold-out show in...
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London / Theatre
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La Bete
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26th June 2010 and 4th September 2010
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Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, Soho,
London, SW1Y4DN
26 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing), David Hyde Pierce (Niles in Frasier) and Joanna Lumley (Ab Fab actress and Gurkha guardian) star...
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London / Theatre
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Birdsong
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18th September 2010 and 15th January 2011
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Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, Soho,
London, SW1Y4DN
26 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Trevor Nunn directs Rachel Wagstaff's stage version of Birdsong, the hugely popular First World War novel by Sebastian Faulks. This...
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London / Kids Events
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Kids' Week
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13th August 2010 and 27th August 2010
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The West End, , Soho,
London, WC2H7BP
26 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
It's now over a decade since the excellent idea of Kids' Week was first conjured up. A truly inspired summer...
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London / Theatre
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Sweet Charity
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23rd April 2010 and 8th January 2011
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Haymarket Theatre Royal, Haymarket, SW1Y4HT
27 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Tamzin Outhwaite stars as the unlucky-in-love taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine in this revival of Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Sweet...
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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
27 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
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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Avenue Q
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19th March 2010 and 30th September 2010
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Wyndhams Theatre, Charing Cross Road, Soho,
London, WC2H0DA
28 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Meet Princeton, Kate Monster, Trekkie, Brian and their friends on a crummy alleyway in New York as they find out...
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London / Theatre
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Enron
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16th January 2010 and 14th August 2010
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Noel Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4AU
28 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Lucy Prebble's contemporary drama charting the infamous financial scandal surrounding Enron transfers to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre following...
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London / Exhibitions
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BP Portrait Award 2010
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24th June 2010 and 19th September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
29 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
The three shortlisted artists for this year's £25,000 BP Portrait Award are David Eichenberg, Michael Gaskell and Daphne Todd for...
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London / Exhibitions
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Alex Katz Paints Anna Wintour
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15th May 2010 and 21st September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
29 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
She's America's most influential fashion editor, dubbed 'Nuclear Wintour' for her cool manner - said to have inspired the Meryl...
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London / Theatre
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Ghost Stories
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25th June 2010 and 7th September 2010
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Duke of York's, St Martins Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2N4BG
29 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Following a phenomenally successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith, Ghost Stories transfers to the Duke of York's theatre in the...
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London / Shopping
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Marylebone Farmers' Market
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Every Sunday
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Marylebone Farmers' Market, Cramer Street Car Park, Marylebone,
London, W1U3BN
3 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Marylebone Village is one of those areas of central London that really does have a village feel. And this weekly...
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London / Tours
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BBC Broadcasting House Tour
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Every Sunday
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BBC Broadcasting House, 2-22 Portland Place, Fitzrovia,
London, W1A1AA
10 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
Currently undergoing major restoration, due for completion in 2012, you can still get a work-in-progress tour of BBC Broadcasting House...
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London / Theatre
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Summit Conference
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11th August 2010 and 4th September 2010
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33 Portland Place, , Marylebone,
London, W1B1QU
10 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
One of the truest beauties of Fringe Theatre is the opportunity to use any conceivable space as a performance area. This is exactly the case with Summit Conference, which tells the story of a fantasy meeting between the mistresses of two of the most infamous men of the 20th century,...
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London / Concerts
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Fistful of Fandango 4
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5th September 2010 and 8th September 2010
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The 229 Venue, 229 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia,
London, W1W5PW
13 minutes walk from Durrants Hotel
One venue, two stages, four nights, 24 bands: A Fistful of Fandango is back for a fourth year this September,...
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