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…
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Before She becomes an icon, She is someone’s child. Before She carries the world, She carries her own love
From 6–12 March artist Anna Kiparis presents Every Madonna Was Once a Child, a solo exhibition at Arc Space and…
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.…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Moral Tourism: The Tyranny of Distant Outrage
In an age of instant news, we all seem to know everything. Sometimes you don’t even want to know, yet…
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…
Never Too Early: Theatre for Children Under Five
I am a theatre researcher, but I am also a mother to a curious toddler. When I first took him to see…
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…
The Road to Damascus
Pavlik stretched luxuriously. There were about twenty minutes left before the alarm. He had been dreaming of his mother, her…
A Theatrical Firmament: Which “Stars” to See on the London Stage This Winter
Few days ago was Blue Monday — supposedly the most depressing day of the year. New Year’s Eve and Christmas…
Myths in Music, Music in Myths
It was music that made me “the man from the aeroplane.” Almost every week, my weekends began and ended at…