It is with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation that I will go to Bola Agbaje’s new play Off The Endz - for the “z” replacing the “s” suggests to me that it’s going to be yet another derivative black street play... more
Britain will experience the 'Obama effect' in full when a black man or woman becomes Mayor of London, according to one of the country's leading playwrights... more
London's most impressive black role models were named by the Government as ministers urged young British people to follow the examples of Barack Obama and Lewis Hamilton... more
The writer, director and star of Kidulthood insists its portrayal of teenage sex, violence and drug-taking reflects his own experience of life in London... more
Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There Be Love is a flawed gem of a play which does more than examine the relationship between a cantankerous old Caribbean Londoner and his young, Polish cleaner.... more
A Polish immigrant is subjected to racism by an old West Indian man in the latest play by Kwame Kwei-Armah. 'People have short memories,' says the writer.... more
Great aspirations prove Kwame Kwei-Armah's undoing in the ambitious Statement of Regret, a play about the effects of centuries of slavery on today's black people.... more
A cast including Christian Slater, Ronni Ancona, Rob Brydon, and Fiona Shaw are to take up the challenge of creating and presenting six plays in 24 hours to raise money for the Old Vic.... more
A hundred years after the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, stars including Richard Attenborough, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Anne-Marie Duff honoured him.... more
Blake Morrison, Mark Thomas, Armando Iannucci and John Hegley have joined the line-up for the first London Literature Festival at the revamped Southbank Centre.... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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