Raindance Icon Award to late, great Dame Joan Plowright for Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

This year’s Raindance Film Festival presents an additional Icon Award posthumously honouring the late, great Dame Joan Plowright in the year of her passing – presented for her final major screen role in Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (dir: Dan Ireland, UK/USA). Raindance’s 33rd edition (18-27 June) includes a special 20th Anniversary tribute screening of […]

Theatre: Salomé by Gesher Theatre in London

In a co-production with Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Gesher Theatre presents Maxim Didenko’s highly stylised production of Oscar Wilde’s intoxicating world, in which beauty becomes a weapon and a kiss can mean death.  Written by Wilde in 1891, this lyrical one-act play, banned in Britain at the time, tells the biblical tale of Salomé, the […]

Immersive Theatre Preview: STOREHOUSE from Sage and Jester

It’s quite a journey from truth to disinformation and you’ll need to take the bus from Canada Water station to Deptford, South East London to get there. Among a mix of local authority and new builds you’ll see a big old rusty gate through which, up a long path through weeds (the real thing, not […]

Theatre Review: Cul-de-sac by David Shopland at Omnibus Theatre

Fake Escape in association with Omnibus Theatre present the world premiere of Cul-de-sac by David Shopland from  27th May to Saturday 14th June 2025 at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham London. Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf meets Abigail’s Party and you are beginning to scratch this surface of this confident if too lengthy play. Alan […]

Every Body Festival at Camden People’s Theatre

Every Body Festival is a two-week celebration of disabled and deaf-led performance, creativity and community launching at Camden People’s Theatre this summer. Artistic Director Rio Matchett’s inaugural programme, running from 29th June – 13th July, the festival features live theatre, digital premieres, cabaret, workshops and panel events, all led by disabled and deaf artists, and all with […]

Double Bill Plays with “Hermione’s Dinner” and “Toxic” at White Bear Theatre

Golden Age Theatre Company presents Toxic & Hermione’s Dinner from 17th – 28th June 2025 at the White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London. Hermione’s Dinner ​Carla, one of that rare breed of women who harbour a powerful aversion for children, is hoping to save her old friend Roger from being drawn into the […]

Movie: The Road to Patagonia – “Australian Film of the Year”

Follow ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure as he leaves his life in the city behind for the great outdoors. Surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas, his ambitious voyage takes him from the Alaskan wilderness to the tip of Patagonia. But just as the dangers and isolation of such a […]

Musical Theatre News: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

New musical The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, an adaptation from the romantic-fantasy novel, will have a second workshop in May 2025 before a full stage production in 2026.   Adapted from the 1945 novel, The Ghost and Mrs Muir is the impossible love story between a young widowed mother, Lucy Muir, and the ghost of […]

£10,000 bursary for UK-based artists from The Dover Prize

Applications are now open for The Dover Prize 2025, a significant opportunity for UK-based visual artists and creative practitioners to develop their practice through a two-year bursary worth £10,000. Open to individuals, partnerships or collectives from across the UK, The Dover Prize supports time to think, research, reflect and experiment. It offers a rare chance […]

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year – Live! at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Award-winning stage and screen actors will come together for an entertaining evening of Shakespeare based on Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthology: Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year on Sunday 25th May 2025 at 19:30. Actors including Damian Lewis (Homeland),  Tracy-Ann Oberman (The Merchant of Venice 1936), Tony Robinson (Blackadder), Olivia Williams (Dune, The Crown), James Phoon (Bridgerton), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Mission […]