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How to survive and enjoy Frieze art fair
BlogThe Frieze Art Fair is nearly here. More than a decade on from its conception, it now marks the official start of a season of…
A star is born in the shape of Rosalie Craig, star of The Light Princess (Picture: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg)
A spunkily charismatic Light Princess
Drawing on a Victorian fairy tale by George MacDonald, this ambitious new musical by Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson tells the story of Althea, a…
Blanche McIntyre has won praise for dynamic directing (Picture: Jon Bradfield)
This dynamic duo trade in secrets
Director Blanche McIntyre and playwright Dawn King talk about making unsettling new work Ciphers…
Kara Walker's work has proved controversial (Picture: Sari Goodfriend Photography)
Kara Walker: I don’t want my art to cause pleasure
Kara Walker has caused controversy with her graphically violent silhouette artwork. Metro meets her ahead of her first British solo show…
The Commitments is infectious fun but the narrative is lacking (Picture: Alastair Muir)
Commitments is a slight thing but nostalgic fun
Up for a nostalgia trip? Then this Roddy Doyle musical could be just the ticket…
Au Naturel mattress is part of Sarah Lucas's Situation (Picture: Sadie Coles HQ London
Sarah Lucas at Whitechapel Gallery: Raucous, seedy and daring you to laugh
Bums, boobs, bits and aggressively couldn’t-care-less self-portraits from the original YBA…
Classically trained, it's not unusual for Tori Amos to play two instruments simultaneously while singing (Picture: Camera Press)
Tori Amos is flying high with The Light Princess
Self-confessed ‘crack fairy’ Tori Amos is turning her hand to the theatre – and has a princess on her mind
Die Fledermaus is an unsettling black comedy (Picture: supplied)
Die Fledermaus starts dark but loses its way – despite the Nazis
This comedy of adultery and mistaken identities starts in a dark, unsettling place but loses its way despite fine performances…
Adrián Villar Rojas’s clay elephant installation (Picture: Jîrg Baumann)
New gallery space literally has an elephant in the room
The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery is a little disappointing but its debut shows offer strange and beautiful things to puzzle over.…
Cranston to play former president on Broadway
Breaking Bad actor Bryan will be dialling up some Heisenbergian gravitas when he plays Lyndon B. Johnson in All The Way on Broadway this winter…
Matt Smith to play Bateman in American Psycho musical
Matt Smith is ready to whip out his chainsaw after landing the starring role in an upcoming stage musical adaptation of American Psycho…
Lesley Manville stars in the Almeida's version of Ghosts (Picture: Hugo Glendinning)
Ibsen’s Ghosts leaves you clutching your throat
Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts is striking in many regards – but its biggest impact derives from its pace.…
Sections of the Elmgreen & Dragset installation at the V&A (Picture: Anders Sune Berg)
Scandi-subversives take over the V&A
Danish/Norwegian installation artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are nothing if not gutsy…
Sexual Dalliance Between A Man And Geisha by Nishikawa Sukenobu, c1711-1716 (Picture: The Trustees Of The British Museum)
Shunga: The pleasure principle
Shunga: Sex And Pleasure In Japanese Art at the British Museum is a joyful celebration of sex…
Tom Prior and Simon Lennon star in James Graham’s Tory Boyz, one of a trio of NYT Rep Company plays at the Ambassadors Theatre (Picture: Helen Maybanks)
The Ambassadors is spoiling us with young acting talent
NYT Rep Company's Romeo And Juliet, Prince Of Denmark and Tory Boyz…
Review: Tate’s Art Under Attack marred by fuzzy logic
If you’re unsure what the word ‘iconoclasm’ means, Tate Britain’s latest show might not help much…
Urban dance and circus tricks collide to dizzying effect in iD (Picture: Tristram Kenton)
Review: Cirque Eloize iD is an adrenaline rush
A hugely entertaining show from one of Canada’s most adventurous new circus outfits…
Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, 1917-18 by Gustav Klimt (Picture: Belvedere, Vienna)
Vienna’s identity crisis on show at National Gallery
The National Gallery’s new exhibition explores the work of modern Viennese masters…
Comedian Joe Lycett is stepping up his game on the stand-up circuit (Picture: Graeme Cropper)
Joe Lycett: I try not to be too bitchy
Move over Alan Carr and co, Joe Lycett is coming. However, he’s got a few stand-up shows to do first…
Stella Gonet and Marion Bailey in Handbagged by Moira Buffini (Picture: Tristram Kenton)
Margaret Thatcher and the Queen politely duke it out to fantastic effect in Handbagged
Moira Buffini’s new play has the Queen and Margaret Thatcher duking it out on the big issues…
Torii Kiyonaga's detail from Sode no maki (Handscroll for the Sleeve), c. 1785 (Picture: The Trustees of the British Museum)
Sex objects or objets d’art?
‘Obscene’ images were once locked away by the British Museum. Not any more: its new exhibition treads the fine line between porn and art
Benjamin Millepied with members of his dance company, L.A. Dance Project (Picture: New York Times/Redux/Eyevine)
Benjamin Millepied: From Black Swan to dark horse
Benjamin Millepied is a choreographer, dancer, model… and Natalie Portman’s husband.…
Carlos Acosta set himself a challenge when he took on Don Quixote - and he's pulled it off with finesse (Picture: Johan Persson)
Carlos Acosta's remarkable Don Quixote
There are some terrific performances in Acosta’s reworking of the comedy ballet at the Royal Opera House. …
Katie Leung stars as Sunny in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s ferocious production The World Of Extreme Happiness (Picture: Richard H Smith)
The World Of Extreme Happiness is fascinating and ferocious
A young woman leaves the poverty of rural China and heads for the bright lights of the city.…
Mira Schendel’s Graphic Object, 1967 (Picture: Mira Schendel Estate)
Tate Modern gets a Brazilian with Mira Schendel showcase
Tate Modern is showcasing the work of Mira Schendel, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Brazilian art…
Short, sharp drama on the immigrant’s life
The Lyons is a foul-mouthed and slickly funny play
Calixto Bieito’s experimental production of Fidelio fails to translate
Roddy Doyle has a sense of Commitments
Russell Maliphant and the light fantastic
Scenes From A Marriage: Smart but grim