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Top Hat The Musical review: this stylish revival taps lightly into classic charm
Top Hat delivers good looks and old-school glamour in a sparkling, feel-good production.
Best new awards & arts prize winners: December 2025
This month's awards and prizes celebrate portrait art, emerging musicians, and the best Irish, Scottish and Welsh books of the…
The Red Shoes review: Matthew Bourne triumphs at Sadler’s Wells.
This seductive retelling of The Red Shoes is an intoxicating blend of signature movement, stunning design and enthralling storytelling.
HMS Pinafore review: a visually delightful festive confection
It’s all jolly japes aboard ship in the English National Opera’s colourful, comic re-staging of HMS Pinafore.
London art guide December 2025: best art, theatre and music
This month's London art guide brings you our top picks of the best art, theatre and music – with a…
Twelve Paintings by Colin Davidson and Mark Carruthers review: conversations on ‘the act of looking’.
Artist Colin Davidson muses on creativity, identity and bearing witness in Twelve Paintings.
Philharmonia Orchestra review: Boris Giltburg plays Prokofiev and Rachmaninov
Giltburg is recognised as a leading interpreter of Rachmaninov with award-winning recordings of the concerti and performances.
Best new awards & arts prize winners: November 2025
This month's awards and prizes celebrate moving portrait photography, vital non-fiction and up-and-coming talent.
Matthew Rhys returns to the London stage in Playing Burton at The Old Vic
Marking the centenary of Richard Burton’s birth, this production is a fundraiser for the new Welsh National Theatre.
Emergence Magazine Vol. #6 – Seasons review: impressive arts and ecology magazine
'Emergence' offers a quiet contemplation of the Earth’s cycle of rebirth, life, decay, and death.