Theatre & Arts
By Savannah Whaley

Five Short Plays Are Brilliantly Subversive

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I'm Gone.

 ★★★★☆
By Tabish Khan

Human Rights Human Wrongs: The Photography Of Oppression

Harrowing, yet powerful images of inequality and prejudice.

 ★★★★☆
Comedy
By Ben Venables

How London's Sex Comedies Saved British Cinema

Forget Fifty Shades of Grey, see our history of raunchy 1970s flicks.
By Laura Reynolds

Antonia Fraser And Michael Rosen Join Daunt Books Festival

Sorry, Michael Palin tickets sold out.
By Nicolas Chinardet

Gods And Monsters Revealed At Southwark Playhouse

The semi-fictional life of a semi-forgotten great.

 ★★★★☆
By Neil Dowden

How To Hold Your Breath Brings Home Crisis To Europe

A magic realist journey that challenges complacence.

 ★★★★☆
By Ben Venables

Cyberspace Spam Wars With Comedian James Veitch

The inbox strikes back at the Museum Of Comedy.

 ★★★★☆
By Chris Lockie

Burt Bacharach To Keep Raindrops Off His Head At Royal Festival Hall

Burt's 'Life in Song' hasn't been half bad.
By Stuart Black

Page To Stage Festival Goes Behind The Scenes In Hampstead

A who’s who of talent gives tips and talks.
By Ben Venables

Dancing Dracula Raises Stakes In Spoof Musical

Nick Mohammed's Mr Swallow swoops into Soho.

 ★★★☆☆
By Tabish Khan

British History Dissected At The Hayward Gallery

Missiles, Margaret Thatcher and mad cow disease.

 ★★☆☆☆
By Silvia Baretta

See Ralph Steadman's Breaking Bad Portraits In Shoreditch

Only for a few days, bitch.
By Ruth Hargreaves

Elf The Musical To Join West End This Christmas

SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA'S COMING!
By Londonist

The Best Gigs In London This Week

Looking for live music? We've got it.
By Tabish Khan

Cotton To Gold: The Eclectic Collections Of Wealthy Industrialists

Taxidermied birds and boxes full of beetles.

 ★★★☆☆
By Sam Smith

Perfect Production Builds On Brilliant Opera At The Coliseum

Wagner's The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. It doesn't get much better.

 ★★★★★
By Londonist

London Short Fiction: Lyndon The Greatest Thief In London

By Sam Hogan, age 7.
By Silvia Baretta

Get A Taste Of Spain At Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival

Olé!
By Tabish Khan

Napoleonic Propaganda At The British Museum

Crude humour and satirical insight.

 ★★★★☆
By Laura Dodge

A Diversity Of Dance In The Associates At Sadler's Wells

Three choreographers with 21st century approaches to dance-making.

 ★★★☆☆
By Stuart Black

London Shorts: This Little Place In Gospel Oak

Your weekly dose of capital-centric short film.
By Neil Dowden

Low-Key Macbeth Full Of Sound But Lacks Fury

Supernatural thriller is too stripped-back.

 ★★☆☆☆
By Will Noble

Oscar Movies Remade In London

These puns won't win us any awards.
By Laura Reynolds

Friday Photos: Mosaics

On the tiles.