What's On Entertainment Previews

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The Killers, The O2 arena

If you like your post-punk revived, get down to The O2.

For Brandon Flowers and the other members of The Killers are bringing their hefty rock-synth pop to North Greenwich.

Showcasing their latest album, Day & Age, Mormon anglophile Flowers and his troupe are in a sense coming home, playing the UK’s largest and most successful venue.

Signed first in Britain, the Las Vegas foursome owe much of their sound to the new-wave offerings of Public Image Ltd and Joy Division.

Don’t write them off though. If we’re lucky they might do Dire Straits’ Romeo And Juliet again.

Feb 23-24, 6.30pm, £24.26-£35, 0844 856 0202, theo2.co.uk, Jubilee: North Greenwich

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Last Of The Red Hot Lovers, Greenwich Theatre

Theatre company Rapture bring Neil Simon’s classic ’60s comedy about sex, love and seafood.

Think red-hot lovers – Byron, Cassanova and of course Barney Cashman.

Spot the odd one out? The play follows the adventures of fish restaurant owner Barney as he attemps to bed a trio of ladies.

The results, according to the press release, are both comic and touching as Barney learns a lot about women and even more about life.

Penned by the Pullitzer Prize-winning Simon, who also wrote Barefoot In The Park and The Odd Couple.

Feb 24-28, various times, £17.50 (£12.50), 020 8858 7755, greenwichtheatre.org.uk, DLR: Greenwich

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NME's Big Gig, The O2 arena

If you’d rather see a band who have influenced the course of popular music than one under the influence then this could be your chance.

The NME is set to crown The Cure “Godlike Geniuses��? at its annual awards this month, and in celebration Crawley’s finest will headline the publication’s show a day later.

Frontman, and the band’s only constant member since its ’70s formation, Robert Smith has promised not to “turn up and start being weird��?, but rather to “distil 30 years into the set��?.

Expect all the hits with a minimum of new material and lashings of lipstick

Feb 26, 6.30pm, £29.35-£30, 0844 856 0202, theo2.co.uk, Jubilee: North Greenwich

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Live Canon, Greenwich Theatre

Held over three days, each roughly a month apart, the events that form this festival of improvisation are too numerous to address comprehensively in a single preview.

The festival begins with the company’s Shakespeare And His Contemporaries this month.

Expect a selection of vibrant performances from classically trained actors aimed at bringing the texts to life.

Anthony Schuster, Charles de Bromhead and Holly Atkins will take the audience through some well-known works and a few rarities, some with and some without music.

Feb 20, 1pm and 5.30pm, £5, 020 8858 7755, greenwichtheatre.org.uk, DLR: Greenwich