With his adaptation of House of Games and a play about Irish-Americans and the IRA about to open, writer Richard Bean talks to Veronica Lee about his fascination with inconvenient truths... more
Patrick Procktor was a flamboyant, witn society in the 1960s and 1970s. But the artist’s life was blighted by alcohol and jealousy. Gavanndra Hodge paints a portrait of a peacock... more
David Bailey recently spent a night taking pictures of ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things in the East End with a camera phone ... more
Her 6ft frame (and 48in bust) turned her into a big star. But now, thanks to TV's obsession with perfect bodies, they've made Julie T. Wallace a small-screen outcast.... more
Gary Oldman as the gay, untrustworthy writer Joe Orton and Alfred Molina as longtime lover Kenneth Halliwell give superb performances in Prick Up Your Ears.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows