Live music
KT Tunstall at Royal Albert Home: intimate gig gives new life to the hits
In such surreal times music remains a constant that has never been needed more by our generation. The…
By Jonathan MarshallCulture
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Dance
An Evening with Natalia Osipova at Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage
Prima ballerina Natalia Osipova introduces this trio of her works, Valse Triste, Qutb, and Ave Maria – presented…
By Catherine Sedgwick
Play
BBC Culture in Quarantine: The Merchant of Venice at the RSC online
Joining the BBC’s project Culture in Quarantine, the Royal Shakespeare Company are showing their 2015 production of The…
By Michael Higgs
Theatre
“The Edinburgh Fringe is as vital as the world’s greatest pressure valve”: An interview with Anthony Alderson, director of the Pleasance Theatre Trust
Life has ground to a halt. The cancellation of the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe Festival has hammered home that…
By Mary-Catherine Harvey
Play
BBC Culture in Quarantine: Macbeth at the RSC online
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, having spawned countless productions as well as causing nightmares for GCSE…
By Abbie Grundy
Movie
A Secret Love
For over 65 years, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel have been in love. Many friends thought they were…
By Jonathan Marshall
Show
Hollywood
There is something compelling about old Hollywood, a romanticism of glamour and stardom that blinds us even today.…
By Emma-Jane Betts
Play
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei at Hampstead Theatre
Playwright Howard Brenton’s #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei recounts the 2011 detention of famed Chinese artist Ai…
By Mersa Auda
Play
Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe online
For theatre addicts itching to see a live performance during lockdown, Shakespeare’s Globe is offering a rota of…
By Kari Megeed
Play
BBC Culture in Quarantine: Hamlet at the RSC online
"More matter, with less art." Gertrude’s proclamation in Act 2 is strikingly out of place in Simon Godwin’s…
By Beatrice Tridimas