Erran Baron Cohen on The Infidel – The Musical
Erran Baron Cohen talks about writing songs for the new musical alongside David Baddiel
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Two painters join forces for Whitechapel exhibition
Whitechapel’s Idea Store gallery is holding an exhibition by award-winning painters Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill
Festival of Latin American theatre to go ahead this month in East London
Theatre makers from across South America will be descending on East London for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival
Ghost from a Perfect Place – review: 'Just the right level of dystopian horror'
Philip Ridley play has lost none of its sinister brilliance in the twenty years since its first production
Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival launches
Titus Andronicus meets pie and mash and 1000 plays written in a shed are part of the first Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival
Alecky Blythe: ‘I don’t think theatre can change things greatly’
Alecky Blythe reflects on a successful run with her verbatim play about the Hackney Riots, Little Revolution
Winterville festival is coming to Victoria Park this Christmas
Victoria Park is to host Winterville festival this December with cabaret, a panto, ice skating and assorted revelry in store
Rudy's Rare Records is 'black High Fidelity', says show's creator
Lenny Henry stars in play of radio comedy in which three generations of a family try to stop developers from turning their record shop into a supermarket
Hackney Downs Studios to host season of plays in "roundabout" theatre
Child rearing anxiety, the meltdown of an obsessive Kate Bush fan, and a teacher who turns into a troll, all feature in Brave New Work season of one act plays
Spoiling review: a post-apocalyptic look at Scottish 'independence'
An imagined ‘yes’ vote to Scottish Independence is the backdrop to darkly humorous two-hander at Stratford East
'Too much silence around FGM perpetuates the tradition'
Director Alex Crampton talks about Little Stitches, four short plays about female genital mutilation, to be performed in three London theatres, including the Arcola, this month
Dalston's Grimeborn festival is underway
It’s the time of the season for alternative opera at the Arcola with annual Grimeborn festival
The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes – review
An Iraqi asylum seeker looking to make a fresh start in the UK finds it’s not so simple in black comedy by Nicolas Kent at the Arcola
There’s a Monster in the Lake – review
Attitudes towards care for the elderly is the sober subtext to a surreal play at the Rosemary Branch
Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works
Raven Row hosts first exhibition in which live performances of Yvonne Rainer’s dance works feature alongside her theoretical and lyrical writing
The Frida Kahlo of Penge West – review
Hilarious two-woman show retells the life of the feminist revolutionary artist Frida Kahlo