As the oldest (and most recognisable) location in the V&A’s growing catalogue of galleries, the V&A South Kensington hosts ...

London-based Toxic Arts is on a mission to shake up the contemporary art experience. Helmed by Harry Barratt and Alex ...

Raoul Peck's touching film-documentary of Ernest Cole, the photographer to expose the horrors of South Africa's apartheid to the world. Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) writes, directs and produces a ...

A BUILDING that for decades was used to store clothing for a city centre department store has been transformed into a new arts venue for Bradford’s City of Culture year. Loading Bay – the ...

Today, one of Liverpool's most popular and well-loved institutions - The Empire Theatre - is celebrating its 100th birthday. Now a century in, The Empire Theatre on Lime Street in Liverpool city ...

'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 ...

That's how Zachary Hart (who plays Simon Medvedenko) opens Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, adapted by German director Thomas Ostermeier, at the Barbican Theatre. The Seagull is a play written by ...

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Read our review of The Seagull, starring Cate Blanchett, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Emma Corrin and Tom Burke, now in performances at the Barbican to 5 April. How do you feel about those trendy contemporary ...

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).