Performing Arts: London

On this 8-day London tour, Performing Arts students dive into the city’s vibrant theatre and cultural scene. Highlights include West End theatre workshops and performances, backstage tours, Shakespeare’s Globe and Stratford excursions, and explore the magic of the Harry Potter films at Warner Bros. Studio. Students explore iconic London landmarks and gain first-hand insight into performance, theatre production, and literary…

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Student Performing Arts Tour to London

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Performing Arts: London

On this 8-day London tour, Performing Arts students dive into the city’s vibrant theatre and cultural scene. Highlights include West End theatre workshops and performances, backstage tours, Shakespeare’s Globe and Stratford excursions, and explore the magic of the Harry Potter films at Warner Bros. Studio. Students explore iconic London landmarks and gain first-hand insight into performance, theatre production, and literary…

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Your Adventure

1 Overnight flight to England (London)
2 Arrive in London
  • Meet your tour director and check into hotel
  • London city walk Trafalgar Square, National Gallery visit, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Leicester Square
    Step outside your hotel for a stroll through the heart of the English-speaking world. In this city of nearly seven million, you'll see everything from 12th-century fortifications to modern skyscrapers, royal parks to street art. Your Tour Director will lead you to some of the most famous sites. Walk along the Thames River. Cross Trafalgar Square. See bustling Piccadilly Circus. Pass trendy shops and cafés in Bohemian Soho on your way to Covent Garden, a 13th-century fruit and vegetable garden transformed into a maze of narrow streets and pedestrian walkways burgeoning with street performers, open-air markets and boutiques.
3 London
  • London guided sightseeing tour Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Hyde Park, St. Paul's Cathedral
    Join a licensed local guide for an in-depth look at London, from the royal haunt of Buckingham Palace (the official London residence of King Charles III) to the slightly more democratic Speakers’ Corner of Hyde Park, where anyone can pull up a soapbox and orate to his heart’s content. You’ll see the changing of the guard (season permitting), the clock tower of Big Ben with its 14-ton bell, and Westminster Abbey, where almost every English king and queen since William the Conqueror has been crowned. After a stop at the Houses of Parliament, continue on to the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral, the masterpiece of London architect Christopher Wren.
  • Royal National Theatre backstage tour
  • Classic fish and chips dinner Nothing's more British than fish and chips-there are eight fish and chips shops ("chippies") for every McDonald's in the county. Head to an authentic pub with your Tour Director for a taste of this national food, generally served with malt vinegar.
4 London
  • West End at Work Workshop What to do in a city with a reputation for theatre? Watch everything you can in the West End, but why not also see the world from your own stage. Play a dramatic part or put on a musical production. Learn about lighting, make up and all of the hard work that’s acted out before the curtain goes up.
  • Royal Opera House guided tour
  • West End theater performance Enjoy a show in the West End, the British version of Broadway, with London's 40-or-so professional theaters, as well as restaurants, shops and cafés. Please ask your Program Consultant for a list of shows to submit a request.
5 London
  • West End at Work Workshop What to do in a city with a reputation for theatre? Watch everything you can in the West End, but why not also see the world from your own stage. Play a dramatic part or put on a musical production. Learn about lighting, make up and all of the hard work that’s acted out before the curtain goes up.
  • LEAP Prime Time Shakespeare! Produce a prime time TV show for sixteenth century England! Compare Shakespearian times to our own and see the Bard's work in a new light.
  • Shakespeare's Globe Theater guided visit Visit and take a tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Museum, housed in a reconstruction of the original theater that closed in 1642 and dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance. The museum explores the costumes, special effects, music and printing and publishing process during the Shakespearean era.
6 London
  • Stratford full-day excursion Anne Hathaway’s Cottage visit, Shakespeare's Birthplace visit
    Your guide will take you to William Shakespeare's childhood home, furnished in a style typical to the Elizabethan period. Afterwards, you’ll tour the thatched cottage where his wife, Anne Hathaway, lived before their marriage. The adjoining Shakespeare Tree Garden is planted with trees and flowers mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays.
  • Royal Shakespeare Company performance See the renowned RSC perform in Shakespeare's hometown. Formed in 1905, the RSC has employed such great actors as John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, and Sir Ian McKellen. (If the theater is unavailable, a play in London will be substituted)
7 London
  • Warner Bros. Harry Potter Studio visit Explore the magic of the Harry Potter films. This unique tour takes you behind-the-scenes and showcases a huge array of beautiful sets, costumes and props. It also reveals some closely guarded secrets, including facts about the special effects and animatronics that made these films so hugely popular all over the world.
  • West End theater performance Enjoy a show in the West End, the British version of Broadway, with London's 40-or-so professional theaters, as well as restaurants, shops and cafés. Please ask your Program Consultant for a list of shows to submit a request.
8 Depart London

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