Reviews
Local theatre productions and exhibitions.
The name of Ernest Shackleton is carved into the analls of great explorers and adventurers and is further immortalised in a new Imax film - Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure - that details the classic and perilous struggle of man against nature.
Pittsburgh. Late 1970s. Becker runs a local mini cab or jitney service that is threatened with closure. So begins August Wilson's deftly crafted drama focusing on the Black-American experience.
Who will write the history of tear? Artist Alice Maher has made a daring foray in capturing this seemingly endless and insurmountable task.
Set in the 18th and 21st century we are drawn into the world of transvestites and rent boys and shown murky relationships between lust and commerce.
"Mesh" equals colour and abstract. The brainchild of textile designer Jo Gibbs and furniture designer Stephen von Lingelsheim, Mesh heralds a new direction for abstract art and its creation.
Katherina Fritsch has opened at Tate Modern. Fables unleash all sorts of mischief. From a world of myth and imagination, figments are fixed in solid form and a ludicrous sort of sculptural reality begins to build.
Peter Durantâs striking photography is at the centre of the Walk this Way exhibition at the National Theatre.
"Who's there" With no pause for interval, Peter Brook's production throws off the outer machinations of court and country, to better distil from Hamlet himself the sorrows of human deceit.
The round paper lantern and the light bulb make moons of a million ceilings and theyâre both brilliant inventions, writes Crystal Lindsay
The muted still-lifes of Giorgio Morandi speak of some private drama and the deliberations may not be noticed by us; at least, not at first, writes Crystal Lindsay
The quest to shape nature and art to some native union is dazzlingly achieved in frames of hypnotic stillness and surprise.
'Do not be old before you are wise': this monumental play about loss, first staged in 1605, asks the question: what are man's needs and how shall he first understand them?
The Jerwood Painting Prize exhibition features six artists shortlisted for the £30,000 award.
The Southwark Playhouse presents David Spencer's Glass Hearts, a harsh, gritty, unsentimental drama documenting the creation and collapse of a bizarre love triangle.
The intimate atmosphere of the Young Vic makes the downfall of the King Richard all the more poignant.
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