Thanks to the courage of a handful of Afghan officials at The National Museum in Kabul, a hoard of treasures was saved from Taliban destruction and is now on show in London, bringing cultural clues of life before political borders were drawn... more
Thanks to the courage of a handful of Afghan officials at The National Museum in Kabul, a hoard of treasures was saved from Taliban destruction and is now on show in London, bringing cultural clues of life before political borders were drawn... more
It feels like a lifetime ago that we were treated to the most tragicomic vista in the history of the English international team, says Matthew Norman... more
High School Musical's We're All in This Together, is so rousing that if it were hooked up to the National Grid we'd never need fossil fuels again.... more
Declan Donnellan's too flippantly inclined production of Troilus and Cressida takes the cynic's stance and revels in mockery, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
She's a 35-year-old actress whose good looks have won her many admirers and a previous career as a model. However it seems Saffron Burrows has gone one giant step too far in her attempt to achieve fuller lips and ended up with possibly the world's worst trout pout. It was hard not notice the British-born beauty's 'bee-stung lips' as she attended the premiere of her latest movie, The Bank Job, in New York
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Nicholas de Jongh was bewitched by Katie Mitchell's Women of Troy, which recreates the classic Greek tragedy using smart English ladies flaunting their 1940s finery.... more
Despite the controversy caused by her last production, theatre director Katie Mitchell is pulling no punches with her interpretation of Women Of Troy.... more
Helen of Troy is part of the summer season of free theatre at The Scoop - but for an enterprise keen on all-round accessibility it is an odd choice.... more
Despite the serious content, Ravenhill for Breakfast, a series of plays about the war on terror, makes a very pleasant and engaging way to start one's Fringe day.... more
Greenford's gifted allrounder Troy Miller is a brilliant drummer, keyboard player and composer who had the Pizza Express Jazz Club swinging for three nights at the weekend.... more
Biyi Bandele's snapshot of south-west London life, Brixton Stories, adapted from his novel The Street at the behest of the RSC, has the feel of a modern-day epic poem.... 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
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