Play
Betrayal at Harold Pinter Theatre: Powerful and wonderfully measured, Hiddleston’s performance is first-rate
The eyes and silence speak louder than words. And the latest production of Betrayal, directed by Jamie Lloyd,…
By Cristiana FerrautiCulture
Latest
Theatre
“There are wonderful pockets of compassion and resilience in this country coming from ordinary people”: Playwright Grace Chapman on Don’t Look Away and the importance of helping those seeking asylum
Co-artistic director of NOVAE theatre and Idle Motion and theatre manager at the Space, playwright and actor Grace…
By Catherine Sedgwick
Movie
Poetry in Motion: Janbal
Set around the sandy deserts of Hormuz, Southern Iran, Janbal combines rich storytelling, video art, performance and ethnography…
By Selina Begum
Movie
Dragged Across Concrete
We last saw Vince Vaughn on our screens as Bradley Thomas in the 2017 movie Brawl in Cell…
By Guy Lambert
Movie
Once Upon a Time in London
The cinematic canon of gangster epics is overflowing more than the rivers used to dump the bodies. So…
By Gabriel Bernink
Movie
Loro
Loro, or Them, from Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino is a fictionalised account of Silvio Berlusconi‘s life from 2006…
By Jessica Wall
Movie
Red Joan
Idealism doesn’t always mix well with politics (unfortunately). And when the backdrop is the Second World War and…
By Cristiana Ferrauti
Musical
Queereteria TV at Above the Stag Theatre
Singer Andy Bell, one half of synth-pop duo Erasure, decided a few years ago to create an alter…
By Mersa Auda
Play
Where Is Peter Rabbit? at Theatre Royal Haymarket
Set designer and deviser Roger Glossop brings Beatrix Potter’s much-loved tales of wild animals to life in Where Is…
By Selina Begum
Musical
The Marvelous Wonderettes at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
In 1998 Roger Bean was asked to write a musical about high-school song leaders of the 1950s and…
By Jessica Wall