Culture

There are a lot of things you’ll learn in A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble’s new play about Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko. You won’t know if everything is true – after all, it’s set in Russia in the 1990s, alo...

Edinburgh Fringe Festival may be gone, but the Pick of the Fringe is an excellent replacement. Yes, I missed the Fringe too. Yes, I'm still bitter about it. Luckily, good news arrives on the horizon pretty swiftly, as...

SKIP Gallery makes rubbish look quite the opposite — and its free exhibition, called LOOK AT THIS, is amazing. London's coolest new exhibition opens its door to the public today and, according to its curators, it "cham...

Dolly Parton's '' is still rocking it at London's Savoy Theatre. Based on the 1980s film written by Patricia Resnick and directed by Jeff Calhoun,  is in London from now until November 11. The show tells the story of t...

Ian McKellen is bringing his one-man show, 'Tolkien, Shakespeare, others and YOU', to the West End, and . Throughout 2019, the legendary actor has been celebrating his 80th birthday by performing at 80 theatres around...

The very first Kensington Karavan Festival is coming to Notting Hill this month, showing free plays inside a 1950s vintage caravan.  Brand new plays have been written especially for the festival in this tiny 10-seat th...

The year is 2006 and our news feeds are full with pictures of the bald, yellow-tinged face of Alexander Litvinenko in a hospital bed. The British citizen, but former Russian secret service officer, had been poisoned - a...

Immersive yourself in the theatre at Almeida For Free. You'd think that being one of the most iconic theatres in London would be enough to secure the Almeida a place in the god tier of theatres, right? Well this is not...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is known for pushing audiences to the limit – and 'Appropriate' is no different. Anyone who saw his last show, An Octoroon, will appreciate that you don’t see his plays for a rolling-in-the-aisle...

Eugene O'Hare's play 'The Weatherman' is sobering, with a powerful message you won't forget. The weather. It's an easy subject to talk about. It fills small talk with awkward colleagues, or the fellow passenger on the...