BOOK NOW: EPICUREAN DREAM BRINGS TOGETHER THE VERY BEST
For a truly first-rate foodie affair, blot out 9 and 10 September in your diary. Quintessentially Epicure is a luxury food festival at the Hurlingham Club that will see some of the...
Out of Office
Wednesday 29th June 2011, 11:05pm
OPEN AIR THEATRE, REGENT’S PARK
With any luck the rain is behind us now, and the warm weather here to stay – perfect conditions for a spot of al fresco theatre. The current production is John Gay’s famous tale of highwaymen, hangmen and the...
Thursday 30th September 2010, 1:29am
FLASHDANCE COMES TO THE STAGE
It’s all about legwarmers, leotards and doing the splits to Giorgio Moroder’s What a Feeling at the Shaftsbury Theatre, where Flashdance, the 80s cinematic cheesefest about a female welder who dreams of making...
Wednesday 8th September 2010, 11:06pm
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE AT THE TATE
Tate Britain is playing host to an exhibition of photographs by one of the medium’s true pioneers. Muybridge’s images of bodies in motion – including horses galloping (proving for the first time that they had...
Wednesday 1st September 2010, 11:39pm
LES MISERABLES AT THE BARBICAN
There can’t be many people left who haven’t seen Les Mis, but the Barbican’s forthcoming, brand new production might be the show to convince naysayers what a remarkable musical it is. Alternatively it might be...
Wednesday 4th August 2010, 11:48pm
LAST CHANCE: AFTER THE DANCE
Anyone who’s been riveted by Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in the BBC’s updated version of Sherlock Holmes should check out his tremendous starring role in After the Dance at the National Theatre, which...
Tuesday 27th July 2010, 12:17am
DANTON’S DEATH AT THE NATIONAL
Doesn’t Toby Stephens ever rest? Having only just finished a run in Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Thing at The Old Vic, he’s straight into dishevelled hair, frock coat and the bloody purges of the French...
Tuesday 13th July 2010, 11:13pm
DON’T MISS: HOFESH SHECHTER DANCE
Hofesh Shechter made a huge splash in the UK with Uprising in 2007. Now he takes the first full length piece since Uprising, called Political Mother, on tour. The 10-dancer show brims with Shechter’s “...
Wednesday 7th July 2010, 11:36pm
BIKERADAR LIVE 2010
Cycling enthusiasts should check out BikeRadar Live at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent this weekend. Now in its second year and just in time for Tour de France fever, the event gives you the chance to test-ride the...
Tuesday 6th July 2010, 11:22pm
HABIT OF ART RETURNING
After a sell-out run at the National, Alan Bennett’s amusing play about old age, the creative spirit and sexuality is returning to the Lyttelton from next week. National Theatre regulars Desmond Barrit and Malcolm...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
