By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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Soho Place theatre founder on opening West End’s first new theatre in fifty years

October 28, 2022

For the next edition of The Lowdown interview series, we speak to Soho Place theatre founder Nica Burns about opening the first new West End theatre in fifty years Tell us about Soho Place theatre We want to offer different possibilities for performers and audiences. Our theatre is in-the-round so everyone has a perfect sight [...]
My Policeman review: Harry Styles naked gives us what we came for

October 20, 2022

My Policeman review: Harry Styles is not yet a good actor, but Styles gives the fans exactly what they want in this gripping LGBTQ drama Amid all the rumours of a feud between Harry Styles, his director-girlfriend Olivia Wilde and their co-star Florence Pugh on the set of Don’t Worry Darling – a rumour that [...]
Inside £9bn Battersea Power Station renovation

October 20, 2022

It could have become a theme park in the 1990s if developers got their way. But last week the Battersea Power Station building reopened for the first time since the iconic development stopped lighting up London back in 1983. It powered Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament, supplying one fifth of London’s electricity, but [...]
Twenty Two restaurant review: All of Mayfair should be like this

October 19, 2022

Monday nights are reserved exclusively for television binges and reluctant visits to the gym. All Londoners know this. You only venture out when a friend is visiting from out of town or when there’s a client dinner, and then you need somewhere to go that you can stomach on a Monday. Twenty Two is the [...]
Blues for an Alabama Sky review: A comic picture of The Great Depression, but not a cohesive one

October 14, 2022

Who knew a play about The Great Depression could, and frankly, should, be this funny? We laugh or we cry, goes the old adage, and Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play is an uneven but often joyfully comic celebration of some of the vulnerable, brash and foolhardy characters who lived through it. We meet Angel who dreams [...]
Sipping martinis at DUKES hotel, St James, on the 60th anniversary of James Bond

October 10, 2022

Dr. No was released in cinemas in October 1962, and to celebrate James Bond’s 60th anniversary our Travel Editor visited the film franchise’s most iconic worldwide locations. We also checked into DUKES Hotel, where Ian Fleming drank martinis in the 1950s… THE WEEKEND: A two minute walk from Green Park and the throws of Piccadilly, [...]
James Bond locations: become Bond by sinking martinis at these worldwide filming destinations

October 10, 2022

Your mission, 007… Visit these James Bond locations around the world. From St James to Jamaica, so much of Bond is about escaping to the planet’s most gorgeous corners The view from the private balcony of The Duke of Clarence Suite at DUKES Hotel offers Green Park so close up that you could throw a [...]
The Doctor West End review: Juliet Stevenson mesmerises in play for our times

October 10, 2022

Say the name Juliet Stevenson to those that don’t go to the theatre and it may not mean much – but on the stage, Stevenson has A-List status. In riveting Robert Icke play The Doctor, she lays out every reason why. The piece, which first opened at the Almeida in 2019, is a damning character [...]
Sh!t Theatre review: Evita Too is the most fun you’ll have in the theatre this year

October 7, 2022

Sh!t Theatre’s latest completely ridiculous but utterly barmstorming show begins with a question. Would you rather hear a Wikipedia page recited as context for the performance, or watch founders Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit roller skate around the theatre naked? You can guess how the show opens, and it’s classically barmy stuff from the trope [...]
Richard Eyre: ‘Usually there’s a dark side to national treasure actors’

October 6, 2022

The number of over-60s around the world will almost double from 2015 to 2050, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation. Amid this staggering rise, the NHS is facing constant calls for further funding, and health inequality widened significantly under the pandemic. For Richard Eyre, director of Iris and Notes On A [...]

Gore Street Energy narrowly defeats Saba’s wind down vote

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London Tube exhibition celebrates ghosts of the Underground and screeching sound of tracks

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