Ahh, art or money? It’s something we ponder daily here at Londonist. (Can’t we have both?) The big question is also being asked over at the Old Vic by none other than Kevin Spacey and his mate Jeff Goldblum in Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. We’re also pondering …
As we ease out of the austerity, self-denial and penny-pinching of January, so too the arts world comes even further out of its shell. This week sees a whole host of exciting openings. Take your pick; payday’s passed and February’s just round the corner! Be …
Be there first: After all the brouhaha over the From Russia paintings, this is surely the show to see in its opening week. Stunning, inspirational works by the likes of Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich come to the Royal Academy from Saturday. …
If you were up in Edinburgh for the first week of the festival or are just back from that hedonistic week away then you’re probably feeling the pinch. You’ll not be able to go naughty Monday indie clubbing at Durr at The End. You can’t …
Different people want different things from their Shakespeare. Some want it modernised, the eternal appeal of the bard twisted into sharp relief by some cunning, beard-stroking ‘still true to this day, innit’ resonances. Others like an abstract Will, all context removed along with the scenery …
It’s one of those stories that, if the Daily Mail ever get wind of, we’ll never hear the end of it. A Greenwich-based theatre company are currently staging Shakespeare classics in their own “unique” way. That’s “unique” as in gay. The Melmoth Theatre Company’s adaptation …
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