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The interior of Toulouse Lautrec jazz club's third floor; around twenty tables are arranged before the stage (on which there is a piano and microphone)

Interview: Nolan Regent, owner of Toulouse Lautrec jazz club
Diasporas Now x ICA Speaking Futures by Furmaan Ahmed 2025

Diasporas Now - 4 New Shows

Stage One Producer Placement Scheme 2026/27

Game Boy Modding at Four Quarters
English School, Portrait of Elizabeth I, 1590s, Philip Mould & Company

Classic Art London 2026

Latin Music Icons Live
Design Your Own Neighbourhood-Free Workshop - LFA - Image CARL GBEDDY

London Festival of Architecture 2026
Sol Chase, in a white suit and red-orange cravatte, smiles at the camera above him; he is lying with his head in formation with the other members of Big Love Car Wash

Interview: Sol Chase of Big Love Car Wash

NYMT 50 Year Anniversary Event

Stage One Producer Exchange Programme

Watford Fringe Festival 2026
Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure

Somerset House Studios 10th Anniversary Programme

Miriam Elia New Book and Exhibition

Creative Women Forum 2026

The Big House 2026 Season
David Hockney @ Serpentine Gallery; Annie Sheppard with members of MIO Culture Club

Music in Offices Round-Up
John Kearns: Tilting At The Windmills credit MattCrocket

John Kearns: Tilting At The Windmills

NYMT Celebrates 50 Years
Credit: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

One of the Earliest British Reports of American Independence
Border Crossings, The Mouth of the Gods, Credit John Cobb

CHECKPOINT

Watford Palace Theatre Summer Season
Astronomers Take Over

Royal Museums Greenwich

Roundhouse Comedy Festival

Kilburn High Road Festival
Richard Kind (Max Bialystock) and Marc Antolin (Leo Bloom) - credit Manuel Harlan

Richard Kind in The Producers
Musician Beth Rettig, in a black coat and black shades, stands against a grey wall

Interview: Beth Rettig of ‘Where We Sleep’
Tudor Takeover

Spring at The Old Royal Naval College
Bathed in purple light, jazz musicians perform to the crowd at the newly-refurbished, 140-seat Upstairs at Ronnie's

The Lowdown on Upstairs at Ronnie’s

Shakespeare’s Globe Spring Season
Great British Theatres Awards

Great British Theatres Awards
Wearing an green ball gown, Sammy Trotman holds aloft a burning copy of the DSM

Interview: Sammy Trotman - mad activist, theatre maker & writer/performer of ‘THAT’S NOT MY NAME’

Queer Theatre Spring Season

London Canal Museum Events
Photography by Andy Stagg, courtesy of Mosaic Rooms

Mosaic Rooms Reopens

JW3 Bar Mitzvah

Shakespeare’s Globe Summer 2026

Twenty Years Guildford Shakespeare Company
Bathed in a blood-red light, Alex Knott and James Demaine clutch either side of a pillar and look outwards, terrified in character as (respectively) Bishop Patrick Sheffield and Daniel Farringdon in their play The Highgate Vampire

Interview: Alex Knott & James Demaine, of Bag of Beard Theatre
Writer Christopher Burn, author of Poetry Changes Lives, is wrapped up warm and wearing as flat cap as he looks wistfully into the distance in a lush green countryside setting

Interview: Christopher Burn

Old Royal Naval College 2026
Care - Young Vic Theatre

Young Vic Theatre January - July 2026

New Victoria Theatre’s Winter Season
Marthe-Armitage-Pattern Maker

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Little Angel Theatre Spring/Summer 2026 - Ian Nicholson and Sam Wilde’s brilliantly inventive I Want My Hat Back.

Little Angel Theatre Spring/Summer 2026

Unwrap the Magic of Ronnie Scott’s

Ready for an out-of-this-world Christmas weekend?
A self-portrait, in paint, of Ben Edge; he holds a branch in his mouth. In the background, on one side a Druid circle performs a ritual around a tree protruding upwards from a giant acorn; on the other, an woman in mediaeval dress holds a sword towards a demon. The London skyline is in the distant background.

Interview: artist Ben Edge
Jobsworth - Park Theatre

Interview: Actor & Writer Libby Rodliffe
The Circle & Star Theatre Relaunch

The Circle & Star Theatre Relaunch

The Unicorn Theatre 2025/26 Season
Left: a headshot of Velenzia Spearpoint, Artistic Director of the Lambeth Fringe Festival Right: The Bread & Roses theatre pub in Clapham

Interview: Velenzia Spearpoint, Co-Director of the Lambeth Fringe Festival

What’s on From August 2025 Season Guide

Summer at Nova Cinema continues!

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse – Autumn/ Winter 2025 Season

Summer at Nimax Theatre

Summer with Official London Theatre

Explore the Wellcome Collection: Where Science, Art and Health Collide
Unicorn Theatre's New Season 2026

Unicorn Theatre’s New Season 2026

GIANNI VERSACE RETROSPECTIVE

Battersea Arts Centre 2025/6 Season
Mistero Buffo

Pleasance Theatre Autumn/Winter
Sir Stephen Fry

The Show People Podcast Returns
Flabbergast Theatre's Henry Maynard

Interview with Director Henry Maynard

Interview with Writer & Director David Shopland

LILO & STITCH
Exterior render of the Play Pavilion, designed by Peter Cook (Peter Cook Studio Crablab), in collaboration with Serpentine and the LEGO Group. © Peter Cook (Peter Cook Studio Crablab).

Play Pavilion
The Ghost and Mrs Muir rehearsal image

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Queer Play Reading Club
Food Festival with Raymond Blanc

Blenheim Palace Summer 2025

Soho Theatre Walthamstow

BOXPARK Unveils Summer in Shoreditch Events Lineup
Adèle Anderson

Queer Theatre News
Edward Gardner, LPO Principal Conductor

The London Philharmonic Orchestra - Harmony with Nature

gowithYamo and The White Pube

Westminster Abbey Celebrates VE Day

Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
trip-boat-long-tom

London Canal Museum
Seven Dials Playhouse New Chapter

Seven Dials Playhouse New Chapter

Unlocked ‘Origins’ 

LA LINEA 2025

I’M STILL HERE
Roman wooden writing tablet and stylus. Credit: London Museum

London Museum
Ms MaNDy's Adventures at JW3 Spring & Summer 2025

JW3: SPRING and SUMMER

The OFFIEs 2025 - the winners
Three-Little-Pigs-Whats-On-Banner Unicorn Theatre

Unicorn Theatre Autumn Season

Wallace Collection - Bellotto

Corn Exchange Newbury
Rebekah Jones Unicorn Theatre

Unicorn Theatre
Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

ASMF Celebrate the Big Screen
Michelle Wolf_Credit Netflix_Jeff Neira

MICHELLE WOLF
The James Bond Concert Spectacular plus image of Caroline Bliss - Miss Moneypenny

The James Bond Concert Spectacular
Entrance view | credit: art’otel London Hoxton, 2024

The Culture Crawl

watchAUT AUSTRIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Amit Sharma, Iain Goosey, Kiln Theatre; Photo by Mark Senior

Kiln Theatre 2025 - 2026 Season

Unicorn Theatre Royal Visit
Group of performers on stage raising their arms at end of performance - Theatre Trust

Theatres Trust Awards
Image of a full pint of Guinness

Bottomless Guinness for the Six Nations!

Union Chapel New Live Shows
HUG Levantes Dance 8-12-24 - image - ©Roswitha Chesher

Without Walls 2025
Allan Clayton, Helen Grime, Leila-Josefowicz & Daniel-Kidane

Aldeburgh Festival 2025

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