The Story Of The Man Who Owned Broadway 21st September – 16th October 2010
Telling the incredible story of one of the pioneers of modern musical theatre, George M.Cohan Tonight! arrives at The New Players Theatre for a strictly limited four week run. As a performer, producer, composer, director, and writer, Cohan was responsible for penning over 50 shows and 500 songs. This award-winning musical biography [...]
The New Embassy Website is here!
The Embassy’s website has changed!!
Our new design is part of a revamp of U.S. Embassy websites worldwide. This design change will provide a sleeker and cleaner look as well as offer enhanced navigation and better visual design.
We’re going from this:
to this!
With our new handy nav bar, visitors can find the information they need, quickly [...]
Celebrating Independence Day in the UK
Happy 4th of July!
Independence Day is being celebrated on the America Ground in Hastings, East Sussex coast, on Sunday 4 July. In 1820, a group of citizens on the foreshore declared themselves independent and America’s 24th State, raising the American flag.
On this 4 July, the Stars and Stripes will be raised and there will [...]
Celebrate the 4th July at Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home of George Washington
Gemmaway and The American Society in London invite you to join us to celebrate The 4th of July in this very special home!
Sulgrave Manor is a Tudor Manor built by Lawrence Washington a direct ancestor of George Washington, in the 1500’s. It has a fascinating history through the centuries, but by 1914 it was just [...]
Memorial Day 2010
A Memorial Day Ceremony will be held at the Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, at 3pm on Sunday May 30th. More information is available from the Brookwood Cemetery website and from these PDFs from the Embassy website:
Information about the cemetery
Running order
President Obama speaks with Prime Minister Cameron
A statement from President Barack Obama, on his call to new UK Prime Minister David Cameron:
“Today, I was pleased to call David Cameron to extend my personal congratulations for the successful campaign that he ran and for becoming the new British Prime Minister. As I told the Prime Minister, the United States has no [...]
Annual Panel Discussion: Nuclear Iran, Threat or Distraction?
Columbia, Georgetown, Sciences Po and Tufts are hosting their annual panel discussion on 27 May 2010.
This year’s topic will be “Nuclear Iran, Threat or Distraction” and will include 4 prominent speakers, Nazenin Ansari of “Liberty” and the Foreign Press Association, Admiral du Puy-Montbrun (a specialist on Iran’s nuclear capability), Jon Leyne the BBC Tehran Correspondent [...]
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Celebrating their twenty-seventh year on the concert stage, the members of the GRAMMY-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) continue to set the standard for expression and virtuosity among guitar ensembles, while perennially redefining themselves in their musical explorations. Music by Bizet, John Philip Souza and Villa-Lobos.
LAGQ are appearing as part of the London Guitar Festival [...]
Duke Ellington’s America – Events in the UK
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington’s America, a book by Harvey G. Cohen, will be coming out from the University of Chicago Press, in mid-May in the US and mid-June in Europe.
While a couple dozen books have been written about Ellington in the last 60+ years, they have all focused on his music, and rightly so. But when [...]
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death
Mark Twain
Originally uploaded from Flickr
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, which has been called “the Great American Novel”, and The Adventures of Tom [...]
