Cabaret review: A riot, old chum – with or without Eddie Redmayne April 21, 2022 Fresh from breaking the record for the most amount of Olivier Awards ever won by a revival, Cabaret strides confidently forwards with an excellent new cast This new revival of Cabaret had West End critics fighting to publish their five star reviews first when it first opened in November 2021. Seeing homegrown A-List talent Eddie [...]
Foals: We’re changing the macho image of hot sauce April 21, 2022 There’s a video on YouTube entitled “Colin Farrell searches for meaning in the pain of spicy wings.” In it, the ageing hunk dollops hot sauce on chicken, eats it, then squirms in pain. The 28-minute video has racked up over 3m views in a little over a month. Halfway through, host Sean Evans boasts that [...]
Elon Musk blames ‘woke mind virus’ for making Netflix ‘unwatchable’ April 20, 2022 Elon Musk has slammed Netflix as "unwatchable" after shares tumbled by more than a third on news subscribers are jumping ship.
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A review April 20, 2022 “A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life,” wrote Oscar Wilde, and the V&A’s latest exhibition Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear gives us some cause to believe that’s true. The showcase marks the V&A’s first major exhibition focusing on menswear, setting itself a rather daunting task. The result is an expansive [...]
Crypto platform Luno ties up multi-million pound deal with Camden’s KOKO April 14, 2022 Cryptocurrency platform Luno has partnered with London’s KOKO as the crypto marketplace steps into the music and entertainment space.
Immersive theatre giants Punchdrunk: ‘We want audiences to feel a sense of danger’ April 12, 2022 I’m feeling my way down a dark alleyway just wide enough to fit through. An expansive theatre set towers metres above me. Three u-turns later I’ve lost my bearings as we stop in front of a harness, rocking gently in the air. “One audience member will get taken here and come face-to-face with a God,” [...]
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy review: Vital, frenetic storytelling April 12, 2022 Ryan Calais Cameron’s urgent new play is a worthy bedfellow to the seminal theatre show which inspired its name, 1970s breakthrough piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. It features seven men on stage in a set up that’s something like a group therapy session, with the men [...]
The show goes on: Olivier awards return in sign of West End comeback April 10, 2022 The West End’s biggest stars donned their gladrags to walk the ‘green carpet’ tonight at the 2022 Olivier’s following a three-year pandemic-forced gap. Cabaret was among the big winners of the day, with Rebecca Frecknall winning best director for the London Playhouse production and Eddie Redmayne taking best actor for his performance as The Emcee. [...]
Review: Football: Designing the Beautiful Game at the Design Museum April 10, 2022 A photo emerged last summer of beaming England footballer Bukayo Saka leaping into a swimming pool astride an inflatable unicorn. Such was the pure joy captured by the image that it quickly attained cult status and, as these things do, spawned a thousand memes. Well, anyone who quipped on social media to “Hang it in [...]
The Lost City review: Bullock and Tatum shine in lowbrow comedy April 10, 2022 Like her Speed co-star Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock is a star who never seems too far from a hit. There’s something about the girl-next-door charm of the Oscar winner that keeps people coming back even in an era where brands are more popular than stars. Having found success with Gravity, Birdbox, and Ocean’s 8 over [...]