The Night Shift provided the perfect start to Reverb 2012
The unique five-day festival is only three weeks away.
Different angles on midweek news.
A new pop-up cinema at the Barbican.
Also: this month, Wimbledon hosts the third instalment of its classical festival.
Impressive new installation in the former railway shed.
The band that look like geography teachers are back with a new album and a gig at the Roundhouse.
This competition is brought to you in partnership with the Roundhouse.
Roll up! Roll up! The circus is back in town.
History of the Roundhouse depicted in new art work.
Overhead projectionists, magicians, Embarrassing Bodies and a strange island in Camden. We dived into the bizarre world of musicians The London Snorkelling Team before their shows next week.
Binge on fringe with something new every 90 mins over 2 days next week courtesy of young creative talent.
Susan Hiller is our pick of the week, with not one but two exhibitions opening in London. There's also an international flavour to this week's Arts Ahead: Russian ballet, American dance, images from Communist East Germany and your last chance to see Japanese fashion at the Barbican.
David Farr's production of King Lear, the last in the Royal Shakespeare Company's current London season, is a mix of successes and failures. Despite excellent acting, there's little light to be found in this perennially gloomy play...
Our top recommendation for this week is Sampled at Sadler's Wells. But there's more to life than dance! Find out about Hamlets closing, photography exhibitions opening and some cultural tips for little londonists in this week's Arts Ahead...
As You Like It is one of the Bard's comedies that ticks several Elizabethan mirth-making boxes; love at first sight, cross dressing, plain speaking fools and flirty freedoms when courtly townspeople head out to the countryside. Director Michael Boyd has added a dash of darkness to the proceedings too...
Friends, Londonists, commuters, Lend me your eyes. I come to praise Caesar, not to bury it. The good that men do lives on after them, Their works oft inspire and amaze. So let it be with Shakespeare…
Here's what's new and what's closing this week in London. There are a lot of things on our last chance to see list: make sure you don’t miss out!
A handful of the not-quite-the-headlines stories from around London in the last 24 hours.
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