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Shaftsbury Ave at dusk
About the 2010 Tour
John Webster has been leading Theatre and Concert tours to London since 1981. The next tour will take place in March of 2010. As with previous tours, participants will have top price tickets to 12 events over the tour’s 14 days. Most evenings will be devoted to performances, and most mornings, from 9-10am, John Webster and/or his London-based colleague Roderick Swanston, from London University's Imperial College, will discuss the preceding day’s event and preview the event to come.
The UW London Theatre and Concert Hall Tour’s performance schedule will offer its participants:
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a panoramic view of London’s current Theatre and Classical Concert venues and performance groups;
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the best available seats for each of our production or concert selections;
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a series of informative background and discussion sessions led by experts in theatre and music;
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a balance of old and new plays, West End and Fringe productions, large and small performance groups, imposing and intimate performance settings.
(To see the schedule for the recently completed 2008 tour, click here.)
Though obviously focused on performance, the tour also offers time to discover the rest of London! Most days will be free to explore this historic city on your own, or to shop or just relax. Professor Webster has been visiting and exploring London for many, many years, and will happily supply ideas to guide your days as well. (And to get started, click here for Professor Webster's picks for London's Ten Best Least-known Attractions, click here for Twelve Great London Pubs, and click here for Ten Great Daytrips Out of London.)
One day each week will be entirely free from scheduled events in order to allow you to plan your own excursions either within or outside of London, or to attend other events of your choice. (Oxford, Stratford, Cambridge, Salisbury or Canterbury are just a few of many possible day-trips.)
Participants have rated the tour highly. The 2006 group gave both the tour and its leader an over-all rating of 4.9 on a 5.0 scale, and the 2008 group gave it its highest ever median rating yet of 5.0 on a 5.0 scale. Over the years many participants have returned again and again. (In 2006, more than 70% of the tour's participants had gone on at least one earlier version of our London Theatre and Concert Hall tour.)
(The tour was the subject of a feature article by The Seattle Time's travel writer Kristin Jackson; to read this article click: Times Travel Section.)
Registration information is not yet available for the 2010 tour. For general information, contact the University of Washington Extension office at 206 543-2320, or Roxanne Ray at 206 685-6325. Or simply visit the UW Extension Travel Website:
http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/travel/london/default.asp
Current and Past Years' Program Schedules
Events for the 2010 tour will not be booked until the Spring of 2010. To see schedules for the last five London Theatre and Concert Tours just click below on the appropriate year:
The 2008 Tour stayed at the President Hotel, located on Russell Square in Bloomsbury--a ten minute walk from the British Museum. It is adjacent the Russell Square Hotel, and just a five minute walk from the Russell Square Tube station. It is also served by four major bus lines. Address:
16 Russell Square
London, WC1N 1DB
United Kingdom
Phone from US: 011 44 20 78378844
Phone from UK: 0207 837 8844
Roomsnet.com comments: "A popular destination amongst RoomsNet users, the President Hotel is the Best Guest Rated London Hotel in 2007 with a customer rating of 96%."
For more information about the President Hotel, click here.
For information about getting around London via the Underground and other methods of transportation, click here.
For information about British Rail, click here.
For information on restaurants, cafes, and shops in London click here.
For Professor Webster's SLIDE SHOW of London sites, click here. (Slide show presentation and illustration by Jessica Coleman.)
For Professor Webster's picks for:
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