What's Happening this April in London

    LONDON, ENGLAND, March 23, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- April starts with a four-day weekend for Easter with Easter Egg Hunts taking place across London and Shaun the Sheep - and his real woolly friends - arriving at Kew Gardens. The Railway Children is hosting a special egg hunt and Opera North is staging 'Swanhunter' at the Royal Opera House, just some of the great family entertainment in London in April 2015.

Kristin Scott Thomas takes over from Helen Mirren as The Queen in an updated version of 'The Audience' and the famous Boat Race - and the almost equally well known Goat Race - also take place this month, just three of the top 63 London events handpicked by LondonTown.

Theatre fans can also look forward to Homeland star Damian Lewis and John Goodman in 'American Buffalo'. Enda Walsh adapts Roald Dahl's 'The Twits' for the Royal Court, Cheek by Jowl presents 'Measure for Measure' at the Barbican, and Maria Friedman directs the Cole Porter musical 'High Society' at the Old Vic.

Fringe theatre highlights in April include 'Carmen Disruption' at the Almeida, 'Bugsy Malone' at the newly reopened Lyric Hammersmith, 'Alice's Adventures Underground' staged on the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's novel, and Circolombia's UK premiere of 'Acelere' at the Roundhouse.

Graphic art festival Pick Me Up asks artists to 'Tell Your Story' at Somerset House, the venue for the stunning Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition from 24th April 2015. There's more award-winning photography at the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize and the V&A asks 'What is Luxury?'

London hosts four art fairs in April including Ceramic Art London, the Chelsea Art Fair and The London Original Print Fair, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015. For its eighth edition The Other Art Fair moves to a larger space in the magnificent Victoria House in Bloomsbury.

Saturday 18th April is Record Store Day when London's music stores - including the Real Deal Legacy pop-up shop in Carnaby - host events, workshops and one-off gigs. There's more live music when Ben Howard performs three nights at Alexandra Palace, and Sting and Paul Simon perform together at The O2 - a pairing of two great musical talents.

A charming story of young love, 'La Fille Mal Gardee' is performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Russian dancer Diana Vishneva is On The Edge, and Matthew Bourne's "sweaty, oil-spattered version of Carmen" (The Guardian) The Car Man is back. In opera, Tansy Davies' highly anticipated operatic debut Between Worlds is inspired by the events of 9/11. And Joyce DiDonato performs the European premiere of a new song cycle written specially for her at the Barbican.

Jokes are not just for 1st April. The nerdy Circus Geeks, BROMANCE boys and The Horne Section all appear in the upside down purple cow also known as the Udderbelly Festival, open on 9th April, Caitlin Moran is at Hackney Empire on 15th April and Canadian comedienne Mae Martin comperes Stand Up for SIDS two nights later.

Performed in real-time for theatre and television, 'The Vote' takes audiences to a fictional polling station. The V&A's free exhibition 'All of This Belongs to You' stays open late on election night. And there's more political theatrics as 'Dead Sheep' tells the story of Margaret Thatcher brought down by her one time friend Geoffrey Howe.

On the last weekend of April 2015, Marylebone market Cabbages and Frocks hosts a Dog Day Afternoon on Saturday 25th April 2015 when the Feast of St George brings English food and flag waving to a free event at Trafalgar Square. On the same weekend Crafty Fox Market comes to Brixton, the Vogue Festival puts fashion's finest at the forefront, and the London Marathon brings 30,000 runners to the city's streets.

For more information on these and other great London events in April 2015, go to LondonTown.com where a wide choice of London hotels to suit all budgets is given as well as information on restaurants, attractions and all the latest London happenings.

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