Reviews
Local theatre productions and exhibitions.
It's no surprise that Belt Up Theatre's current double-bill at the Southwark Playhouse had a sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Ed Ruscha's retrospective is the largest UK survey of his work in America over five decades from Pop Art to paintings of words and landscapes.
With the SE1 postal district being among the worst hit by the current strikes it is fascinating to be able to have a reminder of the great days of the Post Office.
Last night's insistent rain oppressed London. But theatregoers were not deterred from stepping through the drizzle and into what is fast becoming the hottest seat in town: Trevor Nunn's magnificent production of Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic.
Tate Modern's controversial look at the legacy of pop art includes former Waterloo resident Tracey Emin among selected artists.
An interactive reworking of Aeschylus’ tragic revenge cycle for a contemporary audience.
This late summer production at the Globe of a new play by Trevor Griffiths is a thoroughly enjoyable panorama of the life and times of Thomas Paine, an early campaigner for democracy, anti slavery and the rights of man.
Seventy years after the start of the Second World War, the Imperial War Museum has opened a new exhibition exploring the first three months of the conflict.
Alan Ayckbourn wrote Confusions in 1974, at a time when his work was becoming very popular, and playing to large houses in London.
On the face of it, Poppy Burton-Morgan's take on Federico GarcÃa Lorca's Blood Wedding looks eminently promising.
This play, originally by Euripedes and in a new version by Frank McGuinness, is doubly timely, as it deals with both the futility of war and is a follow-up to the recent production of Troilus and Cressida.
For the first five minutes of Sarah Kane’s final play, the only character stands still and silent on the bare stage.
There is a moment in the production of As You Like It, now showing at Shakespeare's Globe, in which the stage becomes a forest.
Troilus and Cressida is one of Bankside's local plays. William Shakespeare took the tale from Chaucer who had dedicated his version to John Gower, a resident in the Southwark Priory precinct.
The Design Museum's small tribute to the Czech architect who died earlier this year includes a couple of items of local interest.
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