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 […]

Theatre Review: The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver at Drury Lane London

This ‘switch and bait’ production might make its money and that can’t be bad for theatre right? It’s getting bums on beautifully upholstered seats. You might enjoy this if you are a tourist – sort of we went to London and got this lousy T-shirt with Sigourney Weaver‘s face on it. More especially if you […]

New London Literary Event “The Conversation” at St Martin in the Fields

The Conversation is a series of weekly conversations exploring the biggest topics of the day from global conflict to the climate crisis with Britain’s leading thinkers, scientists, philosophers, historians, war correspondents and writers. Running from 14th January to 22nd April 2025, The Conversation features talks with bestselling writers including Hanif Kureishi, Ahdaf Soueif, Paul Lynch […]

Open Bar Theatre’s Outdoor Shakespeare Performances in Fuller’s Pub Gardens

Shakespeare hath returned… to the pub!  And that gives us real London Pride. As the natural hubs of many of our communities, pubs are the perfect setting in which to recapture the raucous, accessible and inherently social spirit of a Shakespearean troupe performance. This year is the biggest ever for Shakespeare In The Garden, with […]

THEATRE: Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre London

To be or not to be. Well, it might be, and there’s the rub. Benedict Cumberbatch be praised, that rare thing a great actor with a star presence, beautifully lit. Reciting some of the most famous lines in theatre. One fluffed line in 1408 of them. What a stunning preview performance from him. The characters grow in the play, gaining […]

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park

The reverential labels that apply to Chef Heston Blumenthal are more than well deserved. The Times food critic, Giles Coren, called Dinner at The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park the “best restaurant in the whole wide world.” It’s ranked Number 9 by Restaurant Magazine’s 2012 The World’s Best 50 Restaurants. Part cook, part magician, at Dinner, […]

The Play’s The Thing | Globe Theatre 2012

Shakespeare’s Globe casts Samantha Spiro in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and announces other casting for the 2012 Theatre Season ‘The Play’s The Thing’ Shakespeare’s Globe has announced that two time Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro will play Katherina in Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Toby Frow.  The 2012 theatre season, ‘The Play’s The Thing’ opens for […]