HARPER REGAN, a new play by Simon Stephens, will open in the Cottesloe Theatre on 24 April, directed by Marianne Elliott and designed by Hildegard Bechtler, with lighting by Chris Davey and sound by Ian Dickinson. The cast is led by Lesley Sharp in the title role, and also includes Jack Deam and Troy Glasgow.

Radical Light is the largest show of its kind to be held in the UK, and one of the first outside Italy to examine this vital movement. Comprising over fifty works by the most influential Divisionist painters, the exhibition includes rare loans from private collections (Umberto Boccioni, Workshops at Porta Romana, 1908) and the public collections of Europe and North America. The exhibition will run from 18 June to 7 September 2008.

New records were achieved in trading on the equity order books of Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange during January 2008. The average daily number of electronic equity trades carried out across the two exchanges increased 85 per cent on January last year to 1.3 million, while the average daily value traded grew 45 per cent to £15.3 billion (€20.5 billion).

Following in the mercurial footsteps of previous directors John Peel, Robert Wyatt, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Morrissey, Patti Smith and Jarvis Cocker, this is the first time a group has accepted the much-coveted invitation from Southbank Centre to curate their own festival.

Southbank Centre concerts and talks programmed by the renowned and muchloved folk singer Shirley Collins. Over the past few years, interest has grown in the artist who, whether performing solo, with her sister Dolly, or collaborating on seminal albums with Davey Graham or the Albion Country Band, has been central to the British folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s.

Southbank Centre Zurich Opera under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Most returns to the Royal Festival Hall on 12 April, at 6.30pm with a concert performance of Richard Strauss' first comic opera, Der Rosenkavalier. The cast includes international soloists Nina Stemme, Michelle Breedt, Malin Hartelius and Alfred Muff.

The way Britain reinvented itself as a hi-tech nation after the Second World War is revealed in a new Science Museum exhibition, to open on 30 April 2008.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Green and Pleasant Land concert series continues with Nigel Kennedy performing the work he is most closely associated with, Elgar’s Violin Concerto. With just weeks to go and only a limited number of tickets available, this concert marks the return of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to the Royal Festival Hall and Nigel Kennedy’s long-awaited comeback with a major London orchestra – Wednesday 12th March, 7.30pm.

The Whitechapel's Art Plus celebrates the flashpoints of art and other cultural forms in an exceptional one-off event, on 6 March, at 8:30pm.

The International Engineering Consortium’s SOFNET 08 serves as the first conference and exhibition exclusively dedicated to the impact of network integration by uniting software, next-generation technologies and service providers

In April 2008 English National Ballet will take its full production of Derek Deane's Swan Lake to the Grand Theatre in Leeds. The full production was last seen in the UK at the London Coliseum in January where it was met with sell out audiences and rave reviews.

Angelina Ballerina, the little star with big dreams will once again take to the stage with English National Ballet in her first live ballet Angelina's Star Performance for a 15 week tour across the UK; including a two week run at London's Peacock Theatre.