Opening Night review: Sheridan Smith in brilliantly bonkers show March 27, 2024 Opening Night review and star rating: ★★★★ Critics are bound by embargoes dictating when they can and cannot reveal their thoughts on a production. For Opening Night, the response has been so extreme that reviewers barely managed to keep schtum. One wrote “I saw Opening Night” with a melting face emoji, surely a tell-all sign [...]
How to get rid of bed bugs, as cases are ‘worse than ever’ March 26, 2024 The viral videos of bed bugs on buses, and supposedly in airports and on Tube carriages, gave most of us a shock at the end of last year – but it might get worse before it gets better. New research by bed bug spotting tech company Spotta has found that bed bugs cases have risen 278% [...]
Sister Act musical review: Simple and sensational in almost every way March 22, 2024 Sister Act musical review and star rating: ★★★★★ Let us join together to pray: please let them never take Sister Act away! Returning to the West End with a booking period currently through to August, Sister Act is a stroke of genius: simple, straightforward fun channelled through a production that is so precision-tooled that every [...]
Easter is better than Christmas. Here’s why March 20, 2024 Chop off the top half of an Easter Egg, put it flat on the table, then take a step back and look at it. That chocolatey mound is the hill I’m willing to die on while I repeatedly insist that Easter is better than Christmas. Think that no one actually celebrates Easter unless you’re religious? [...]
It looks like this guy is the new James Bond – according to reports March 19, 2024 After years of waiting it looks like the new James Bond actor is about to be officially announced. Indie actor Aaron Taylor Johnson has been a longtime rumoured name to step into the role of 007 following Daniel Craig, and new reports by The Sun appear to have confirmed he has been offered the role. [...]
Sky high boozing: 11 new London rooftop bars for spring March 19, 2024 Here are 11 new London rooftop bar concepts to raise a glass this spring Take a deep breath in, you can feel it: spring is in the air. There’s nothing quite so enlivening as a cocktail on a rooftop bar, but if you’ve exhausted London’s sky-high options in previous years we’ve rounded up some of [...]
These gym habits annoy thousands of Brits every day March 18, 2024 Surprise surprise, but women don’t like it when men wander over in the gym and coach them on their workout technique: it’s one of the findings from a new survey of gym ‘icks’. The gym is an intensely personal place where many of us can feel insecure. For many reasons, the sight of a colleague [...]
London is no capital of culture without Vault Festival March 14, 2024 Vault Festival has announced its venue has fallen through and the event is no more, says Adam Bloodworth Vault Festival launched the careers of thousands of actors and writers via its unique business model, which meant new performers could put on shows and not break the bank, because part of the show was paid for [...]
Vault Festival cancels 2024 plans due to lack of funding March 13, 2024 The biggest arts festival in England will not go ahead in 2024 after it did not secure the necessary funding. The Vault Festival took place in the vaults below Waterloo Station from 2012 until 2023, with breaks during the pandemic, and was touted as London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe. Through its unique business model [...]
Lindsay Lohan had a cute way of bonding with Irish Wish co-stars during filming March 11, 2024 Lindsay Lohan photographed Irish Wish co stars behind the scenes