5 ways to get your nature fix in London

As I type this, Soho is sunny. Not just a-few-weak winter-rays sunny, but a glorious, blazing, Vitamin D fest that has us sweating …

London’s Top 10 Cultural Cafés

People watching is one of the greatest pleasures a big city affords. It’s especially good when practiced from a warm corner with a flat white …

Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

What more can there possibly be to say about Shakespeare?

This was the ignoble thought I carried into the British Museum’s much-hyped autumn blockbuster, Shakespeare: staging …

Theatreland’s celebrity ladder

TThe moment Stephen Fry utters his first lugubrious syllable in Tim Carroll’s Twelfth Night at The Globe, a frisson runs through the assembled crowd. …

The Tricycle’s new wheels

Becoming the artistic director of any well-known theatre is always a tough gig. With Josie Rourke only one season into her tenure at the …

Classical cool

Who would have thought it? Who would have suspected that, amongst all the industrial hobbits, pogoing punks and (sometimes barely) resuscitated musical icons offered by …

Britain’s forgotten horsewoman

This summer, the British Museum offers us the opportunity to get up close and personal with one of the bravest, boldest and most important horsewomen that …

Reading London

I grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and spent my formative years running half-naked in fields, riding resentful ponies and reading on a scratchy blanket …

Video design grows up

London’s new smash musical Singin’ In The Rain has more than its fair share of memorable moments. And although the scene where Don Lockwood (Adam Cooper) …

Silk and the city

It’s whispering down the catwalk at Somerset House for London Fashion Week. It’s caressed by every tourist nipping into Liberty’s for an iconic paisley scarf. …

In Residence: Beowulf

This season, the British Library is all about the manuscripts. The gorgeous artworks in ‘Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination’ – its big winter exhibition …

In Residence: Madonna del Prato

Perhaps the recession makes us eager to feel we’re getting more for our money. Perhaps James Cameron, Peter Jackson and the other masters of the …

Are you ready to be a member?

When it comes to London arts and culture, membership is a rather fraught concept. On one hand it seems inimical to the spirit of the …

The multiplex addict’s guide to slightly braver cinema

It’s that time of year when we start to feel the good film itch. Despite the odd much-hyped festival import summer has never been a great …

Uncovering Shakespeare’s contemporaries

There’s a brilliant man strutting his stuff on the Southbank this summer. He’s a shrewd, witty Brit who swoops through time …