Festival Of The Spoken Nerd present Pi-Curious PREVIEW. This is a secret preview show prior to their 2-night run on 21st and 22nd May at the Bloomsbury Theatre. It varies slightly from the ones they'll be showing at Bloomsbury Theatre, with a few different special guests and some surpises. This is your one and only opportunity to see this one-off performance and so cheap too. May 15th, 7:30pm; £6 conc £5

Jazz In The Round Summer Line-up has been confirmed (see link)!  Vocalist of the moment Zara McFarlane headlines the last Monday in May plus we’ve a solo set from sax, flute and electronics wizard Finn Peters, with metalist musical freedom fighters Husk to open. May 28th, Bar from 6pm, First act 8pm; £7

 Jadis Shadow Productions presents Edward II, May 17/18. 7:30pm; £12.50 conc £10.50. Miles Copeland presents Club Bellydance, May 21. 7:30pm; £12 conc £10. DreamArts presents Step Up 2012, May 27. 7:30pm; £5 conc £3. Theatre Re presents The Gambler, May 29. 8pm; £8 conc £6. Classified Theatre presents A Glimpse of Stocking, May 31 - 1st June. 7:45pm; £10.

The Lost Gold Project, returns on the 6th June .. King Antac Productions, working in close collaboration with The Cockpit. They invite Actors of all backgrounds and Drama/Acting and Creative Writing Students of all ages to a series of classes, workshops, lectures and rehearsed readings of some of the most innovative and neglected work of the last fifty years.... Wednesdays, 7:30 - 9:30pm; £12

OTHER NEWS: we are running reservations for  the monthly John Calder's Theatre of Literature. It's NOT at The Cockpit - it's down in Waterloo - but Calder and the Cockpit go way back, so we couldn't help but get involved.  These are rare, intimate, authoritative evenings covering key moments in literary history informed by one of the last men alive that helped make them.

Poets In The Pit, our spoken word week, ran from 1st - 5th this month, it was first week of it's kind here at the The Cockpit. We'd like to take this time to thank everyone who came out during the week to check out the different shows we had on, as a part of this spoken word season and of course the acts themselves; Dominic Berry presenting Wizard, Renaissance One presenting Pete (the Temp) versus Climate Change, Apples & Snakes presenting John Hegley & Some Other Poets, Tilt presenting 'Sun Stops Play' by John Agard & all the poets that contributed to Poet Jam. Poets In The Pit will definitely be back again, so watch this space!