Culture, food & travel from London and beyond | The Upcoming

Aoyama Flower Market and Sushi Kanesaka to celebrate summer solstice with five-day floral installation in London

Michelin-starred restaurant Sushi Kanesaka will partner with Tokyo-founded florist Aoyama Flower Market this June for a five-day floral installation at its Park Lane location,...

Food & Travel Desk

Embrace – Avalanche

Shakespeare in the Squares: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Disclosure Day

Antonia Georgiou

James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain

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A Man of His Time
★★★★★

Emmanuelle Marre’s A Man of His Time opens in September 1940 at a...

Christina Yang 30th May 2026
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The Man I Love
★★★★★

Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love opens with a premise that seems deceptively...

Christina Yang 25th May 2026
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Goodbye, Cruel World
★★★★★

It’s an eerily familiar spectacle. A reserved, dark-haired...

Thomas Messner 25th May 2026
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The Black Ball
★★★★★

Like its fellow Spanish competition entries Bitter Christmas and The Beloved...

Selina Sondermann 24th May 2026

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Movie
SXSW London 2026: Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day
★★★★★

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, with a cast rich in...

Mae Trumata
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Movie
Disclosure Day
★★★★★

Much like he did with Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg takes us on a sci-fi...

Antonia Georgiou
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Movie
Savage House
★★★★★

We’ve had Bridgerton‘s alternate history, a randy Catherine the Great, and even a...

Antonia Georgiou
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Movie
Scary Movie
★★★★★

For Anna Faris, Regina Hall and Marlon & Shawn Wayans, Scary Movie is a classic...

Guy Lambert

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Live music
Kraftwerk at the Royal Albert Hall
★★★★★

German four-piece Kraftwerk have long been regarded as pioneers of electronic...

Selina Begum 6th June 2026
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Live music
The Streets at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
★★★★★

Watching Mike Skinner in 2026 reminds you that you are no longer the...

Mark Worgan 6th June 2026
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Live music
Dermot Kennedy at the O2 Arena
★★★★★

There’s a sense of wonderment in the room on a Friday at London’s O2...

Bev Lung 6th June 2026
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Live music
Sofia Isella at Roundhouse
★★★★★

Sofia Isella is a force. Starting her career in the depths of the COVID-era, the...

Talitha Stowell 5th June 2026

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Theatre
Shakespeare in the Squares: Love’s Labour’s Lost
★★★★★

The touring theatre company Shakespeare in the...

Gala Woolley 11th June 2026
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Theatre
Award-winning circus comedy Return of the GODZ returns to Peacock Theatre

Australian circus company Head First Acrobats will...

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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Theatre
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Duchess Theatre
★★★★★

The nature of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, currently being performed...

Thomas Messner 9th June 2026
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Theatre
Julius Caesar by Secret Shakespeare at Reading Abbey Ruins
★★★★★

In this day and age, when we have grown increasingly...

Cristiana Ferrauti 7th June 2026

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Show
Cape Fear
★★★★★

Few film scores are as iconic and instantly chilling as the four-note motif of Bernard...

Selina Sondermann 5th June 2026
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Show
Alice and Steve
★★★★★

There aren’t many shows that have successfully tackled the male-female platonic relationship...

Antonia Georgiou 2nd June 2026
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Show
Tip Toe
★★★★★

Tip Toe opens on a devastating note as the camera pans across a Manchester street....

Andrew Murray 31st May 2026
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Show
Make That Movie
★★★★★

From the mind of Sam Campbell, the magic of moviemaking just got weird – and...

Antonia Georgiou 28th May 2026

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Album
Embrace – Avalanche
★★★★★

With their band lineup remaining unchanged since 1996, Embrace are celebrating 30 years...

Gem Hurley 8th June 2026
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Album
Freya Ridings – Mother of Pearl
★★★★★

Freya Ridings is gifted at turning songwriting into storytelling. Written...

Kadzy Kagura-Watson 29th May 2026
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Album
Maisie Peters – Florescence
★★★★★

Full of flowers and fields, whimsy and wonder, Maisie Peters gifts us her...

Talitha Stowell 22nd May 2026
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Album
Kat Duma – Lullaby
★★★★★

Picture that strange space between dreaming and sleeping – the slow, liminal...

Dionysia Afolabi 22nd May 2026

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Lesley Manville heads eclectic jury line-up for Monte-Carlo Television Festival

Few actors can move between Mike Leigh dramas,...

The editorial unit 11th June 2026
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Award-winning circus comedy Return of the GODZ returns to Peacock Theatre

Australian circus company Head First Acrobats will...

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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Funboys returns with Steve Coogan and new gaming spin-off series

The BBC has released a first-look clip and artwork for the...

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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Trying season five trailer promises fresh chaos for Nikki and Jason’s hard-won family life

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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Kristin Scott Thomas, Kurt Russell and rising stars to be honoured at Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The editorial unit 9th June 2026
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Monte-Carlo Television Festival returns for landmark 65th edition

Between zombie survivors, soap legends and some of the biggest...

The editorial unit 8th June 2026
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Camden Fringe celebrates 20 years with more than 400 shows across North London

Camden Fringe will mark its 20th anniversary this...

The editorial unit 5th June 2026
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Gabès Film Festival offers Tunisian perspective beyond the headlines

Last month, the eighth edition of the Gabès Film Festival...

Olivia Barker 29th May 2026

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The benefits of installing a hydro shower cabin at home

There are a great many benefits to choosing something a little different...

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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The Deadliest Catch heads to Canada

Reality television is often sanitised and dramatised for maximum impact. Yet one show has...

The editorial unit 8th June 2026
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Ways to explore New Zealand on one’s own terms

There is no denying that New Zealand has some of the most jaw-dropping...

The editorial unit 7th June 2026
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The rise of the designer mini dress in contemporary luxury fashion

Luxury fashion is increasingly embracing silhouettes that...

The editorial unit 3rd June 2026

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Summer earns spot on quarterly best album chart

Recently,NetEase Cloud Music released its official music chart for the first...

The editorial unit 9th June 2026
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How proxy servers can enhance the xBox One experience

Gaming has come a long way from playing with a controller in front of a...

The editorial unit 4th June 2026
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Game discovery innovations that make choosing easier

Exploring Connemara and the town of Spiddal is made easier with modern...

The editorial unit 3rd June 2026
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The cultural impact of streaming sports documentaries

Streaming platforms have propelled sports documentaries into mainstream...

The editorial unit 26th May 2026