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Vanessa Endeley, Don't You Want To Live Before You Die V. Courtesy: the artist and Affinity Gallery. Showing at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. London Art Fairs Guide.
Features

London art guide October 2025: best art fairs and exhibitions

As autumn closes in, our London arts guide brings you the best of a busy month of art fairs and…

Tamsin Waley Cohen & Guy Johnston. Two Moors Festival. Image: supplied. London music guide.
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London music guide October 2025: best music festivals and theatre

Our London music guide brings you the best music festivals and performances to look forward to.

Michael Craig-Martin Bulb (magenta), 2015 © Michael Craig-Martin. Photo: Mike Bruce. Courtesy: the artist and Gagosian. London literature festivals guide.
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London literature festivals October 2025: best events for readers and writers

Our guide to London literature festivals brings you the best events taking place this October.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. A grey-haired man, arms outstretched dramatically at shoulder height to either side, stands at a podium conducting an orchestra. His face is lined and he is dressed in black; the audience is visible behind him.
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London Symphony Orchestra review: American symphonic masterpieces delight at Season Opening Concert

Two American masterpieces filled the Barbican Hall with stern beauty and a sombre tone.

Steven Schick. Image supplied.
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Art shouldn’t make us afraid: my three principles for healthy artmaking

Percussionist, composer and author Steven Schick makes a case for optimism in art ahead of his upcoming Australian residency.

Paten Hughes and Robert Sean Leonard - Interview (Riverside Studios). Image: Helen Murray.
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Interview review: a slick two-hander at Riverside Studios

Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard stars as Pierre alongside Paten Hughes in this world-premiere production of Interview.

A black man in a turquoise tracksuit with wings on in The Boy with Wings.
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The Boy with Wings review: the play struggles under the weight of expectations

The Boy with Wings soars in spirit, but not quite on stage at The Rep.

Seven cast members in formal attire in As You Like It.
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As You Like It: Ralph Fiennes shows a steady hand with Shakespeare’s classic pastoral comedy

Take a gentle stroll through the Forest of Arden in this production of As You Like It.

A man with a white shirt, black jacket and an orange dressing gown against a turquoise backdrop. Adrian Lukis in Being Mr Wickham.
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Being Mr Wickham review: a masterclass in understated, intelligent theatre

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday year with Being Mr Wickham, a wonderful one-man show in the West End.

Three people in Shakespearean costume. On is leaning down about to drink from a bottle in a production of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare.
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Sh!t-faced Shakespeare review: boozed up Hamlet at Leicester Square

One cast member is plied with alcohol before the play begins... what can possibly go wrong?

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