‘Flat pack’ usually conjures images of soulless shelving units, not objects of luxury. But, in 2015, one unassuming but impeccably designed bag changed that. We’re talking about the Loewe ...

For guidance, please click here and type the film title into the search bar. Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside ...

Manchester City were handed an FA Cup scare as they were forced to come from behind to beat Championship side Plymouth 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium to book their place in the last eight. Plymouth ...

Plymouth has unveiled an “exciting” new plan to create 8,000 jobs, build 10,000 homes and create a thousand businesses. Plymouth City Council's new economic strategy also wants to bring 50 ...

He was born into the Plymouth Brethren, Britain’s most secretive Christian group, but left briefly, aged 17. This Prodigal Son only made it as far as Woking, but he was, he says, living in ...

'Are you ready for a bit of Chekhov,' asks Zachary Hart's guitar-toting factory worker, Medvedenko before launching into a Billy Bragg number. It's a meta start to a talent-packed updating of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Cate Blanchett is back on the London stage for the first time in six years, playing the feted, self-absorbed, glamorous actress Arkadina in Chekhov’s first theatrical masterpiece The Seagull (1896).

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director Thomas Ostermeier - once the enfant terrible of German theatre, who famously said that directors over 40 should stop working ...

After a string of theatrical duds, misfires and howlers involving Hollywood heavyweights Sigourney Weaver, Rami Malek and Brie Larson, Cate Blanchett was the latest star of the big screen to have ...

Relations with Russia may be icier than ever, but mutual antipathy has never dented our love for Chekhov. To all intents and purposes the man wrote four plays, and they’re never far from our ...