Arts

Ed Gamble and Ray Peacock will be appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Picture: Ashley Maile)

Can’t get to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year? Soak it up on TV, radio and podcast instead…

Edinburgh Festival: home truths from Alex Horne

Normally, wherever Alex Horne would go, an irreverent PowerPoint presentation wouldn’t be too far behind. But ten years on from his first Edinburgh Fringe solo, he’s…

Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed (Picture: supplied)Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed (Picture: supplied)

Innocent co-founder: Our smoothies were inspired by hangovers

Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed says the inspiraton for its smoothies came from wanting something good to drink after a hangover…

Sion Lloyd (Murdoch) , Philip Rham (Captain Smith) and Dominic Brewer (Lightoller) appear in Titanic at Southwark Playhouse (Picture: Annabel Vere)

On the crest of a wave – at first

Ingenious and award-winning Broadway disaster musical Titanic creates characters from the accounts of the doomed voyage…

Denton Chikura and Lucian Msamati have turned to folklore for their play (Picture: Gretel Ensignia)

Nhamo, the Manyika Warrior, is Africa’s newest superhero

Actors and playwrights Denton Chikura and Lucian Msamati talk about the inspiration for the new play, The Epic Adventure Of Nhamo The Manyika Warrior And…

Swan Lake Reloaded gives a burlesque, urban feel to the classical ballet (Picture: Matsbacker)

Swan Lake gets down and dirty

Contemporary, classical, street – ‘It’s all dance’, says choreographer of Swan Lake Reloaded Fredrik Rydman…

If ever a dancer loved being seduced on stage, it’s Carlos Acosta (Picture: Johan Persson)

A happy birthday celebration for Carlos Acosta

Carlos Acosta’s summer galas have proven hit-and-miss affairs in the past. But this career celebration, marking his 40th birthday, is a well-considered selection…

Conrad Shawcross wonders why we divide the day into 24 hours (Picture: Stuart Leech)

No Timepiece like the present Roundhouse

Conrad Shawcross’s immersive Timepiece aims to put a fresh perspective on time.…

Neil Wilkins' sculptures start from £250 (Picture: supplied)

Put your garden on a pedestal

Trafalgar Square has a new sculpture in it – so why can’t your garden have one too…

The Bolshoi's Alexander Volchkov and Svetlana Zakharova (Picture: Getty)

No harm, no fowl

Despite trials, tribulations and a few misgivings, the Bolshoi Ballet delivers an enchanting and well-executed Swan Lake…

Andrew Scott puts on a devastating performance in Sea Wall at the National Theatre's Shed (Picture: Simon Annand)

Andrew Scott’s Sea Wall monologue will floor you

Andrew Scott wows the audience in this quietly devastating monologue about a summer holiday with his father-in-law.…

Ergo Phizmiz brings Gala to the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in Hammersmith (Picture: supplied)

Experimental operas take centre stage

This month’s Tête à Tête and Grimeborn festivals give up-and-coming young composers and librettists the chance to show off their talent.…

Lizzie Cundy plays Zoe in WAG! The Musical (Picture: Helen Jones)

WAG! The Musical is more like wag the dog!

This slight musical has all the depth footballers’ wives and girlfriends are stereotyped to have…

Ralf Little and Con O'Neill star in The Ladykillers (Picture: Dan Tsantilis)

On the fiddle

The reboot of the classic Ealing Comedy still hits all the right notes as the criminal ‘orchestra’ tries to pull the wool over Mrs Wilberforce’s…

Maureen Lipman and Harry Shearer star in Oliver Cotton's Daytona (Picture: Manuel Harlan)

Daytona's cast saves the play

Oliver Cotton’s wordy three-hander is salvaged by some stellar performances…

Amadou & Mariam are the Malian stars of Open East (Picture: Benoit Peverelli)

Open East: the highlights

There’s a kind of misty-eyed nostalgia for the summer of London 2012 and the Open East Festival taps into that spirit…

Susannah Wise stars in The Hush (Picture: Simon Kane)

Not making a big noise

Electronic composer Matthew Herbert’s theatrical debut is an interesting oddity but, overall, The Hush feels scrappy, unfinished and ultimately unsatisfying…

Natalya Romaniw plays Maliella (Picture: Alex Brenner)

A crowning achievement

I gioielli della Madonna (or The Jewels Of The Madonna) is the most ambitious score ever staged by Opera Holland Park – and it shines…

Alison Balsom on valveless natural trumpet in a production that blows hot and cold at Sakespeare's Globe (Picture: John Haynes)

Thankyou for the music

This curious confection, dubbed ‘an entertainment with trumpet’, was created as a means of getting leading classical musician Alison Balsom on the Globe stage.…