Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are some theatre productions that entertain, some that challenge and others that simply ask their audience to listen. Right Before I Go, Stan Zimmerman’s deeply personal exploration of suicide and mental health, belongs firmly in the third category. It is playing at the Soho Theatre for a limited season following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlorian Zeller's The Truth, currently playing at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, is a witty, fast-paced exploration of deception, infidelity and the uncomfortable grey area between honesty and self-preservation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Arnold in Conversation at the Royal College of Music offered an engaging and insightful look into one of Britain’s most celebrated screen composers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you have a particular fondness for British screen history or nostalgia for film and TV from yesteryear, this is your ideal night out.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis beloved festive-favourite features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score which will be performed live to picture by a full orchestra. Since its debut in 2013, Home Alone in Concert has become a seasonal favourite with orchestras and audiences around the world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate the spookiest month of the year there is a fringe festival in London called GrimFest. It runs throughout October and celebrates dark and twisted theatre in the piercing heart of London. Barons Court Theatre has joined forces with Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington and Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham to produce the largest edition of GrimFest yet.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver two action-packed weeks, the Barnes Music Festival presents 36 events across the region. The emphasis this year is on music and literature and each event explores the interplay between the two themes.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Nine Sixteenths is a fast, fun multimedia look at iconic black female role models.” At the Superbowl half time show in 2004, 19-year-old Justin Timberlake exposed 37-year-old Janet Jackson’s breast and nipple to a huge live TV audience…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt may have been 13 years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hit cinemas but no refresher course was needed at the Royal Albert Hall last Friday.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn March 2005 two Australian young men were on their gap years working in Vail, the American ski town. One snowy day they decided to rob a bank on a whim, for reasons which have never been fully clear.