The Motive and the Cue Review
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews The Motive and the Cue at the Noel Coward Theatre. Motive and the Cue is a play about contrast. Jack Thorne’s play directed by Sam Mendes…
The Kensington Hotel Review and Chanel Exhibition
Roger Hermiston and Eileen Wise stay at The Kensington hotel in London and take in the Chanel Exhibition at the V&A. The Irish are surely the perfectly-equipped hoteliers. The national…
Expressions of Life: Judith Godwin
Expressions of Life is the first solo exhibition by Judith Godwin in Europe. It will run at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London from 26 January to 9 March, 2024…
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec will be on display at the Royal Academy from 25 November to 10 March 2024…
Sergio Leone & Once Upon a Time in the West
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, presents Sergio Leone’s timeless classic spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West at the Barbican Cinema 1 on 10 December. Wootton looks…
Mary Said What She Said, Barbican Centre
Isabelle Huppert returns to the Barbican Theatre for the UK premier of Robert Wilson’s Mary Said What She Said for a limited run in May 2024. A Théâtre de la Ville’s production…
Connor Burns Vertigo Review
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews Connor Burns at the Soho Theatre London, part of the Scottish comedian’s Vertigo tour. It is not often that I come home from a comedy gig…
Le Petit Chef Restaurant : Dining with the World’s Smallest Chef
Maria Boyle takes her family to Le Petit Chef London to enjoy a meal with the world’s smallest chef which was of the highest standard. As a mum-of-three daughters aged…
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto, V&A
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto is the Victoria & Albert Museum’s latest blockbuster exhibition. Judith Schrut has been to view. It’s fitting that the V&A, the world’s greatest museum of art…
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends celebrates artist and poet Li Yuan-chia, examining how his LYC Museum and Art Gallery has impacted upon British art. The exhibition is on…
Don Van Vliet : Standing on One Hand
Standing on One Hand is the first solo exhibition in the UK by Don Van Vliet better known by his stage name Captain Beefheart since 1994. Michael Werner Gallery will…
Flood Barrier by Catherine Yass
With the continuing threat of rising water levels in the UK caused by climate change Flood Barrier is a timely moving image commission created by Catherine Yass, which will be…
Jazz on Screen, Barbican Cinema 2023
Jazz on Screen returns to Barbican Cinema during the EFG London Jazz Festival with a series of films that provide some light on modern jazz legends in the 50s and 60s. The three films…
Kanishka by Atul Kochhar New Menu Review
Mark Bibby Jackson tastes the new menu at Kanishka Mayfair to discover a refreshing take on the capital’s Indian restaurant cuisine. When I heard that Kanishka restaurant had launched a…
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews Nicole Eisenman: What Happened at the Whitechapel Gallery which runs through to January 2024. The Whitechapel Gallery is presenting what it describes…
Radical Landscapes, William Morris Gallery
On exhibition at the William Morris Gallery until February 2024, Radical Landscapes explores the way that nature can inspire both artistic inspiration and political protest. This is seen through the…
Visions of Haiti, Barbican Centre
Visions of Haiti is a programme of films, poetry and discussions on Haiti running at the Barbican Centre from 18 to 31 October. The programme allows a rareopportunity to see…
Ghosts, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Ghosts will be the first performance of an Ibsen play at the Globe Theatre’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in its 10-year history. Director Joe Hill-Gibbins breathes new life into the 150-year-old…
Learn How London Blackjack Is Played & Why UK Players Like It
London Blackjack Variant Is Top Charted at UK Online Casinos Blackjack is one of the oldest tables to be played at casinos. Scholars have argued about the game’s origins, but…
London, A Guide for Curious Wanderers : Review
“London is the world’s greatest playground for the curious wanderer,” so starts Jack Chesher in his book London: A Guide for Curious Wanderers. By the end of reading his wonderfully…
In The Offing: Mark Leckey
An exhibition by Mark Leckey entitled In the Offing will run at Turner Contemporary Margate, an-hour-and-a-half south of London from 7 October, 2023 to 14 January, 2024. In the Offing…
As You Like It, Globe Theatre
Ellen McDougall’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic comedy As You Like It runs at the Globe Theatre until 29 October. This performance, which stars Isabel Adomakoh Young as Orlando…
Macbeth, Globe Theatre
Macbeth sees Director Abigail Graham’s directorial debut at the Globe theatre following her 2022 interpretation of Merchant of Venice at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2022. Macbeth Plot If you…
Portia Coughlan, Almeida Theatre
At the interval of Portia Coughlan now showing at Almeida Theatre, I find myself wondering where the play will go. To my great satisfaction I discover that it develops into…
