The London Jazz Festival
This November marks the 21st birthday of the London Jazz Festival – the capital’s biggest…
Browsing: Barbican
From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk: Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibition is London Bound
Some may call it a retrospective, but ‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From…
An Emotional Roller-Coaster: Carousel
”If it weren’t so enjoyable, one might be tempted to call it opera” – so said theatre critic Brooks Atkinson re-assessing Carousel some years after its first premiere.
Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond
“The bitch is dead now.” This is the final line that James Bond utters in Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel, Casino Royale, the first of the Bond series. It’s a sentence laced with anger and despair…
The Master and Margarita
“Until attending Complicite’s dazzling adaptation at the Barbican, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita represented something of a literary blind spot for me.” Will Hunt reports…
Hydrocracker’s New World Order
Set in the fictional Ministry of Cultural Integrity, where a ‘healthy, muscular and tender understanding of our cultural heritage’ is the order of the day, Hydrocracker’s production draws on five of Pinter’s politically motivated short plays.
The Fox & Anchor, London
Fearful explorer and man-of-inaction Lawrence of Arb goes travelling closer to home and spends a night at the charismatic Fox & Anchor in Clerkenwell. Tankards of beer, baths in bedrooms; it was an experience to remember.