Review: A Face In The Crowd – Young Vic
A fun evening out with great music In A Face in the Crowd, Marcia Jeffries (Anoushka Lucas) has one main ambition: to use her…
The Future is on the South Bank
This Autumn, the Southbank Centre’s free gig series, futuretense, returns. Twice every month, these free shows share the sounds of the future, presented in…
Rogues Go Underground
They will rise through the quality of their art The inaugural exhibition of the Rogues Gallery collective was held in the magnificent surroundings of…
Pianist Rob Hao to perform for Tottally Thames Festival this weekend
Ahead of his Totally Thames festival show, the artist tells us how it’s ‘an honour’ to be involved – and why piano composition holds…
Review: Princess Essex – The Globe
A good play that allows Odeke to promote the working-class and womanhood Anne Odeke’s Princess Essex opens with the staff of well-to-do Mrs Bugle…
Shaparak Khorsandi takes Scatterbrain on tour to Blackheath Halls this October
The comic talks to Eliza Frost about how ‘serious’ can be funny, changing culture and why this is her ‘most authentic’ show yet “Scatterbrain is the most…
From Borough Market to Hollywood
Can Jeff Goldblum Make Dreams Come True? Bebe Barry was born in Guy’s Hospital and grew up in Borough Market – The Wheatsheaf pub,…
Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum
Harry Beck was a draughtsman in the Signalling Department at London Transport whose job it was to create diagrams that simplified electrical circuits, but…
Slippage at 198
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is staging a new exhibition ‘Slippage: the Caribbean in Flux’ with new bodies of work by four of the…
Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor
“We do not take the journey; the journey takes us.” This month sees the world premiere of The Ice at the End of the…
New Stories From Local Author
The flaws and greed of humanity are exposed Clare Colvin has a collection of her short stories out: Stone Children and Other Stories. The…
Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt
Pinero’s breathless farce is given a new life Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and…


















