Best Events in London in January 2015

    LONDON, ENGLAND, January 07, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cirque Du Soleil perform at the Royal Albert Hall, 'The Nether' transfers to the West End and James McAvoy stars in 'The Ruling Class'; these are just some of the top London events to look forward to in January 2015.

Atonement actor James McAvoy, who played a highly acclaimed Macbeth in an all-Scottish production at Trafalgar Studios two years ago, returns to the London theatre and reunites with Jamie Lloyd to play Jack, a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex, from 16th January 2015.

There are West End transfers for 'The Nether', Jennifer Haley's futuristic fantasy which enjoyed a popular run at the Royal Court Theatre last summer which transfers to the Duke of York's Theatre from 30th January 2015, and 'Di and Viv and Rose', a heart-warming play by Amelia Bullmore which transfers to the Vaudeville Theatre following its sell out success at Hampstead Theatre. Tamzin Outhwaite, star of the original, makes the transfer too.

After his success with 'Charles III' in 2014, Mark Bartlett now brings his play, 'Bull', to the Young Vic from 8th January. Frantic Assembly's acclaimed and award-winning 'Othello' explodes onto the Lyric Hammersmith stage, the theatre still fresh from its renovations. There's more fringe theatre fun at the Vault Festival, six weeks of erformance, live music, discussions and late night parties in Waterloo's Leake Street tunnels.

At the National Theatre, where Sir Nicholas Hytner is stepping down as Artistic Director, there are productions of Shahid Nadeem's intense domestic drama 'Dara', Tena Stivicic's Croatia-set '3 Winters' and Tom Stoppard's neuroscience play, 'The Hard Problem', which begins on 21st January 2015.

Dance highlights in January 2015 include the English National Ballet performing Derek Deane's 'Swan Lake' at the London Coliseum, the Royal Ballet's 'Onegin', an elegant portrait of a young girl's doomed infatuation, at the Royal Opera House and the Royal Danish Ballet which returns to Sadler's Wells, to the Peacock Theatre, for the first time in ten years.

The Cirque du Soleil's January appearances at the Royal Albert Hall have become something of an annual tradition and the Quebec-based circus troupe return once again to the iconic London venue with their sensational show, 'Kooza', from 6th January.

Significant art exhibitions unveiled in London this January include 'Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cezanne' at the Royal Academy of Arts where more than 160 artworks reveal the Flemish artist's influence on the history of art. Whitechapel Gallery's 'Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015' takes Kazimir Malevich's groundbreaking Black and White (1915) as its starting point, from 15th January 2015.

If you're tempted to become a collector yourself - or extend your collection - the London Art Fair, at Islington's Business Design Centre from 21st-25th January, is a chance to indulge in modern British and contemporary art.

The Science Museum marks the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death with 'Churchill's Scientists', which will run from January 2015 until early 2016.

With the General Election coming up, on 7th May 2015, the Southbank Centre launches 'Changing Britain 1945-2015' at the end of January, a 3-month arts festival taking place across the centre's 21-acre site which looks at the last 70 years of British history. The festival builds up to three weekends of talks and debates (18th & 19th April, 25th & 26th April and 2nd to 4th May) ahead of the General Election.

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