Chishuru restaurant review: exquisite African food in London October 18, 2023 Chishuru restaurant has moved from a premises in Brixton to a larger one in central London, serving excellent African food in fine dining styles
Explainer: Why a bale of straw is hanging from the Millennium Bridge October 17, 2023 Those wandering past the City's Millennium Bridge during the next three weeks may spot an unusual site hanging from the famous 'wobbly' bridge... a bale of straw.
Sunset Boulevard review: Nicole Scherzinger roars but it’s more star than substance October 13, 2023 Nicole Scherzinger shines in a new production of Sunset Boulevard that is a little too tech-heavy for its own good
Sumotherhood: Adam Deacon’s Avuvahood follow-up falls flat October 12, 2023 Sumotherhood is likely to be a hit in short clips on social media, but in its feature length form this sequel wasn’t worth the wait.
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery: Nothing is what it seems October 12, 2023 Nothing is as it seems in this retrospective of the 50 year career of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
London Cocktail Week: seven cocktails not to miss October 11, 2023 London Cocktail Week returns from tomorrow, 12 – 22nd October, with hundreds of experiences across London, including £8 cocktails at dozens of participating bars. Some of London’s best mixologists have created drinks for the event. Below we run through seven cocktails we’re particularly excited to try. NIGHTJAR’S LA MARIPOSA Nightjar is one of our favourite [...]
Peter Grimes at ENO Review: A showcase of extraordinary talent October 10, 2023 It has been almost eighty years since Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes was first staged in London. Musically enthralling and dramatically astounding, it is no wonder that Grimes has stood the test of time, nonetheless this English National Opera revival of director David Alden’s 2009 production feels particularly pertinent in an increasingly polarised Britain. Based [...]
Philip Guston at Tate Modern: A savage dissection of the banality of evil October 9, 2023 The furore surrounding the delay of this major Philip Guston retrospective precedes it. Originally due to tour in 2020 through London, Boston, Houston and Washington, the death of George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement prompted its curators to balk at showing Guston’s highly controversial images of Ku Klux Klan figures, deeming it too [...]
Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera House is enthralling October 9, 2023 As the first opera in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, new productions of Das Rheingold attract intense scrutiny. Establishing the visual language for one production is hard enough, but setting the tone for three more operas is no mean feat. Director Barrie Kosky knows this, because this production marks his second stab at directing the epic [...]
Frans Hals at the National Gallery: A jolly man in a grim time October 7, 2023 Frans Hals was a relatively unfashionable 17th century Dutch master who specialised in portraiture – not a summary that necessarily leaps out to audiences. And yet it is a testament to Hals that an exhibition that almost exclusively contains men and women decked out in black can be so jolly. Religious conflict convulsed Europe during [...]