Panto returns to Hoxton Hall after venue agrees deal with leading theatre company
After a break last year, the popular Victorian music hall is bringing the Christmas tradition back with a production of Sleeping Beauty
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Albion, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘A beautiful parable for modern times’
Rupert Goold’s reprisal of Mike Bartlett’s family drama ‘does not have a single chink in its armour’
Gut, Barbican, stage review: ‘Thrilling, inquisitive and well-acted’
Frances Poet’s ‘razor-sharp’ family drama, performed by Guildhall graduates, avoids ‘black and white simplicity’
Jack Left Town, Rosemary Branch, stage review: ‘Deft, jaw-achingly funny improv’
Four comedians channel Spinal Tap in an unscripted show that is ‘well worth a visit’
Local playwright’s first film to show in Berlin after London Lift-Off triumph
Tamara von Werthern ‘delighted’ that her short film will be screened in her home country after impressing festival judges
The Taming of the Shrew, Barbican Theatre, stage review: ‘Gender reversal offers an ingenious twist’
Justin Audibert’s ‘inside-out version’ of Shakespeare’s classic is ‘highly enjoyable’
Vassa, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Classic family drama given a good shake’
Maxim Gorky’s dark comedy about power and greed, adapted with aplomb by Mike Bartlett, ‘rings as true today as it did in 1910’
‘We’re not going anywhere’: Graeae Theatre stands defiant after windows smashed
Drama community rallies around the company, which is led by D/deaf and disabled artists, after its building was hit for the second time in two years
The Time Of Our Lies, Park Theatre: ‘Compelling – if you’re of the right mindset’
Bianca Bagatourian’s play about the life and work of American intellectual Howard Zinn is a ‘history lesson with sonorous contemporary relevance’
Youth theatre company ‘thrilled’ after winning £67k grant from BBC Children in Need
Hackney Shed’s artistic director says the money will ‘keep our doors open for another three years’
Cacophony, Yard Theatre, review: ‘Vibrant drama that taps into #MeToo debate’
Seventeen young actors star in Molly Taylor’s energetic play inspired by Jon Ronson’s book on public shaming
Bard in the Yard: New Shakespeare statue to sit near Elizabethan Shoreditch Theatre
Sculpture planned as part of public realm around Hackney’s first official monument
A Hero of Our Time, Arcola Theatre – review
Fast paced and bursting with emotion, this is a new adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s neglected 1840 novel
Stik sculpture fetches staggering £150k for homelessness charity
The renowned street artist’s plywood figure sold for ten times its guide price at auction last month
Arcola Theatre’s Creative/Disruption festival: we preview this season of new plays from the local community
From over 50s to Turkish theatre, the Dalston theatre is throwing the spotlight on underrepresented groups’ stories in this iteration of the annual festival
From Russia to Watford: OperaUpClose to perform restaged, rewritten Tchaikovsky libretto in Arcola show
We speak to the Olivier Award-winning lyricist Robin Norton-Hale about the company’s unique take on Eugene Onegin