Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club Another queer venue to be struck down: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club is tottering, reopening,

Trafalgar Theatre 210 years ago Jane Austen published Emma.180 years later in classic 90s fashion it was America-fied into the

Theatre Royal Stratford East What flutters into your mind when you think of Valentine’s Day? Cards, chocolates, overpriced steak? Or

Arcola Theatre Breathing: involuntary, critical, and often taken for granted. Diane Samuel’s premiere starts with the familiar in-and-out heaving of

The Phoenix Arts Club As Blue Monday billows into our lives, instead of fighting it, why not lean into the

King’s Head Theatre : ‘A middle-of-the-road tale’ Originally an earnest memoir by Sergey Fetisov, Firebird: The Story of Roman morphed into a middlingly

Three Colts Tavern ‘Like Italy and New York have made sweet love’ I believe it was Aristotle who once said:

Skehan’s | 1 Kitto Road, SE14 5TW There are Irish pubs, there are very Irish pubs, and then there’s Skehan’s.

Fish Island World firsts are rare in our jaded and desensitised metropolitan food scene. So, when an email tumbled into

Barbican Hall We the assembled shuffle in our finery, clothes dancing with embroidered jasmine and cherry blossom. We wait, breath

Barbican Hall The evening has a sense of celebration, of newly minted and upcoming grandeur. Jakub Hrůša’s face is one

Barbican Hall As a confirmed Londoner, my experience of British wildlife is pretty drab, with flashes of bushy vermilion tails

National Changgeuk Company of Korea Barbican Centre Although the traditional Korean art form of Changgeuk, Shakespeare’s King Lear and the

Clod Ensemble & Nu Civilisation Orchestra Barbican Centre Mea culpa, mea culpa, this review will be part apology, part whinge

Small Beer Brew Co. Full-time country music fan, and a part-time alcoholic, the two have always been a match made