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Dream on, Monet, dream on: the musical A Mirrored Monet explores the artist’s impossible choices

Carmel Owen’s musical was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe three years ago. Since then, it has travelled a long way — and has now finally reached the stage of…

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Jump over the stream! At the National Theatre they have staged Gorky’s Summerfolk

Director Robert Hastie, Deputy Artistic Director at the National Theatre, seems to have only just finished Hamlet with Hiran Abeysekera before taking on the incredibly difficult play Summerfolk by Maxim…

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London Theatre in March: Romance and Raw Nerve

What’s happening on the London stage this March? Not a huge amount — but what’s there is bright and intense. March promises to be fiercely interesting.

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Galina Yuzefovich: “Talking about reading is a kind of comforting refuge”

Galina Yuzefovich knows how to turn a conversation about literature into a conversation about time, generations, and collective illusions. Why did Harry Potter turn out to be not just a fairy…

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Morning Comes Unexpectedly: A staged reading of Vasily Zorky’s text took place at ARC.SPACE

“Night Conversation” is not a play but a film script that Vasily Zorky wrote before the war. The action unfolds over the course of several hours in a single location…

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Loyalty Costs a Life: The premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Bird Grove has opened at Hampstead Theatre

This is a play about the making of the famous George Eliot — or rather about the days when Eliot did not yet exist, when there was only Mary Ann…

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“The Conversation That Never Happened”: how to Choose and Not Make a Mistake?

On February 10, the theatrical reading with percussion “The Conversation That Never Happened” took place at Arc Space. It was not a performance in the traditional sense, but rather a…

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Vasiliy Zorkii: “It’s vital to create new neural connections every day”

Vasiliy Zorkii is a musician, director, writer, producer and screenwriter, known for work at the intersection of music, theatre and text. He has led and participated in several musical projects,…

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Power — and How to Rid Oneself of It: London Theatres in February

What does February 2026 have in store for us? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Theatres have shaken off the Christmas frenzy, audiences have replenished their wallets, and the…

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The Keys to Hogwarts: Galina Yuzefovich Presents Her New Book in London

Harry Potter fans are a loyal crowd—especially those who grew up with the seven-book series and had to wait for each new installment. It was largely people like this who…

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Stuart Lawson: “Dancers communicate through movement, not words!”

British photographer Stuart Lawson, the author of distinctive visual narratives about movement, memory, and identity, has long worked at the intersection of photography, choreography, and human character. His signature technique…

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Another Music: Roman Mints’s New Festival in London

Violinist Roman Mints founded Another Music Festival and successfully staged it in late January. This was the first event of its kind that Roman has organised in London (Moscow audiences…