Culture

The Royal Opera House is currently finishing its runs of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”, the opera based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel. The last two opportunities to see “Eugene Onegin” are 10 and 14 October, and we think you shouldn’t miss…

14-year-old dancer Mia Lipkin lives in London. Despite her young age, she has already moved from children’s ballet classes in Israel to competing internationally, earning the title of “Dance Idol 2024” at Destination Dance, a renowned international competition. Mia’s family…

A documentary exploring the world of witchcraft, rare footage from John Lennon’s personal archive featuring his first and only full-scale concert with Yoko Ono in New York, and a restored version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s preferred adaptation of Sherlock Holmes—these…

From 26-29 September, the ‘London Philharmonic’ – which is one possible name for the two halls, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, which make part of the Southbank Centre – opened its new 2024/2025 season. On the last weekend…

Fiction is reality, and reality is fiction. Cinema mirrors truth more closely, while reality unfolds like a staged film. Or is it all inverted once again? The eternal idée fixe of Dupieux the director—the intertwining of fantasy and material worlds—finds…

London Cult. meets Betty Makharinsky, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Vache Baroque, the project that presents Baroque opera in a unique and accessible way. We posed some questions to Betty to get insights into how this project works and…

As “Poor Things” swept through the festival circuit, recruiting more devotees into the fold of the “Greek Weird Wave,” Yorgos Lanthimos was already finishing his next cinematic venture. “Kinds of Kindness” presents a conceptual exploration of the nature of manipulative…

The premiere of the play The World of Yesterday, based on the novel by Stefan Zweig and directed by Anna Ostrovskaya, was performed at the Camden Fringe Festival. The enormous, very complex novel by Zweig has been transformed by Anna…

Anya Ostrovskaya is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has several performances to her credit, recognized both by critics and with awards. At the Camden Fringe festival, Anya and her team will present a new work,…