Reading Time: 3 minutesNow in its fifth year, the PALART Festival brings with it a vibrant offering of Palestinian stories, this time at the Pleasance Theatre. In addition to supporting - through opportunities for development of new work - Palestinian artists in the UK, the PALART Collective seeks to push back against mainstream media’s growing exclusion and erasure of Palestinian narratives.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPaul Hart returns to the Watermill Theatre with Murder Before Evensong, a world premiere stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery novel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst written 40 years ago by pioneering gay playwright Robert Chesley, JERKER serves as an intimate historical snapshot of 1980s San Francisco.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA brand new world-premiere play, The Standard of Living, from the Olivier Award-winning playwright, James Graham (Punch, Dear England, Labour of Love) explodes into the West End for a strictly limited 12-week run.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVital storytelling that isn’t always on beat Early 2000s. An illegal pirate radio station blasts from a rundown council flat. As the Shutdown Crew navigate the threats from the outside world, they fight for the right to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visceral depiction of love and its effects, beautifully symbolic but hard to watch. As part of the Alejandro G. Iñárritu film season running at BFI IMAX from September 20 to October 11 2026, the critically acclaimed…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA relentless dissection of the passive violence of mass media At the time of writing this review, 73,928 people have been killed in Gaza (Al Jazeera, 25/9/26) since Israeli forces began what the UN’s Independent International Commission…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe American Revolutionary War doesn’t quite hit the British psyche like it does the American’s. It’s more of a footnote before the Victorian age of industry, empire and Dickensian poverty. Probably because we lost. Nevertheless, writer-director Elise Marra has taken a stab at this period of history and condensed it into an idiosyncratic 60 minute two-hander.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Stella Chen’s bright, elegant timbre is luminous and heart-shaking” Opening ASMF’s 2026/27 London season, violinist Stella Chen joined the orchestra for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 and Caroline Shaw’s _Punctum, with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMan or myth? Freedom fighter or terrorist? A thought-provoking glimpse into one of Scotland’s most famous heroes. Wallace: A Musical is Raw Productions’ latest show, highlighting the exploits of famous Scottish figure William Wallace. Using mostly rap…