Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre Early Summer Arts and Culture Guide 2026 by Neil Baker 22nd April 2026
Music and Dance·Theatre Love Quirks: A New Musical (review) – entertaining in the moment but quickly forgettable once the footlights fade by Neil Baker 26th September 2025
Music and Dance·Theatre The Mad Ones (review) – Kerrigan and Lowdermilk’s musical finds its voice through a great ensemble cast by Emma Duffy 11th May 2025
LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre The captivating and clever musical Copla: A Spanish Cabaret comes to The Other Palace by Neil Baker 8th January 2025
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre Julie: The Musical (review) – a wild, witty and wonderfully warm homage to Julie D’Aubigny by Neil Baker 17th June 2024
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre JULIE: The Musical – an original musical about the life and adventures of historical LGBTQ+ icon Julie D’Aubigny by Neil Baker 30th May 2024
Music and Dance·Theatre BABIES – A New (Born) Musical: Summer is done. Year 11 is here. Being a child is out. Being a grown-up is in by Neil Baker 23rd May 2024
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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