TARANTULA began life at Southwark Playhouse where it was streamed during the Covid pandemic. Like Philip Ridley’s earlier work, The Poltergeist, which enjoyed a run at the Arcola in 2022, it’s an ...

WHILE January is a little thin on gigs and some venues are taking a rest for the month, quantity means nothing when the selection is so rich and varied. With music from the Balkans, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, ...

• In the early 60s, Victor “Lucky” Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky finds work at an Irish pub in Notting Hill, then as a rent collector for an ...

George Green, a cellist from King’s Cross, had seen it all as an ambulance driver and veteran of the International Brigades. He knew he had a right­eous cause on his side. But his enemies were armed ...

HIS job is safe – for now. That’s the news coming from N17 today (Monday) after Ange Postecoglou oversaw a disastrous away ...

SHE called it a “distraction”, so did her friend and leader – others used far less benign terms. Whatever you call it, in the end Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as the Labour government’s anti-corruption ...

RICHARD Hough’s engaging play draws on a true cold war love story, based on the memoir by Sergey Fetisov and subsequent screenplay by Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior. Set in the late 1970s, Private Sergey ...

THE wife of a missing man who was found dead in Regent’s Canal last month has called for better safety measures for pedestrians on the waterways. Dr Orhan Ekren, 48, was an academic in mechanical ...

YOU have probably never heard of Irene Higginbottom. She was a prolific composer from the late-30s on and worked with the likes of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and, notably, Billie Holiday. Her ...

PEOPLE look at Kai Havertz and his increasingly comedic attempts at heading and shooting at the goal, and say with just as increasing regularity: “I could’ve scored that – even I could’ve scored that.

FOR a cheap night out, it’s often pizza or pasta – a safe bet on every high street. But even these prices can now leave you spluttering. At a Pizza Express in Covent Garden, for example, the American ...

ARSENAL boss Mikel Arteta said he was going to “enjoy the moment” after watching his side come from behind to seal a Premier League double over Tottenham last night (Wednesday) at the Emirates Stadium ...