As Hackney Empire marks 125 years, Chris Sudworth talks community, affordability and a 16-month birthday party — with a ...

"It has the charge that really good poetry ought to have." This is how writer-director Tony Graham describes the language in a series of oral histories that captured his imagination. They were ...

Swedish puppet sex? It sounds like unlikely material for a theatrical production, but Erik Holmström's whimsical take on The World is Full of Married Men is a charming, lust-drenched frolic. The ...

Pink stained-glass windows frame the restored Abney Park Chapel, standing proudly out from the overgrown greenery spilling across the cemetery. There, a small crowd gathered for the final event in the ...

“I want to speak candidly about love, about loss, about mental health, and cover all the facets of what it is to be a young person today”, Dan Whitlam told me backstage at his album launch on Friday ...

In 2007, an archivist at a US Holocaust Memorial Museum received a mysterious album containing never-before-seen photographs from Auschwitz. Curators scrambled to uncover the truth behind the photos, ...

Whitechapel Gallery is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a bill of exciting exhibitions and events throughout 2026. The programme includes exhibitions by award-winning international artists, a ...

Hannah Moss in So it Goes at Iron Belly, Underbelly Edinburgh. Photograph: Richard Davenport The journey towards Hannah Moss creating her critically-acclaimed debut theatre show started the day her ...

Successful authors who write in a second language are a rare breed. Beckett, Conrad and Nabokov most famously did it, but to name someone writing in English whose first language is Chinese is no easy ...

Subversive wit? A satire of Victorian morality, with a distinctly homoerotic undertone? If you haven’t guessed it I might add the name ‘Bunbury’ or, better still, the immortal line: “A handbag?” Yes, ...

Ex-Smoking Goat's Ali Borer refines the vast mid-Atlantic region into small plates and open flame on the corner of Nile Street ...

She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in ...