Some clichéd content is the Achilles heel of an otherwise striking exhibition at Beers Contemporary on representational art
Benedict Cumberbatch delights as the indecisive Prince of Denmark, but a stunning set is the real star of the Barbican’s production
Ben Whishaw impresses as a Greek god in Anne Carson’s slick adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides
A packed programme of films about subjects ranging from a Cuban drummer to Judaism starts tonight at the Rio cinema
Julia Pascal’s play focuses on two families living in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada
BúnBúnBún is the newest Vietnamese restaurant on Kingsland Road hoping to stand out amongst more established competition
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Split between contemporary London and 19th-century West Africa, Butterfly Fish is a debut novel with an epic scope
A Hackney historian challenges conventional thinking about the ‘eureka’ moment
Cian Binchy questions disability’s place in society through the exploration of an autistic mind
Passionate canal lover Sam Napper captures life on the Lee Navigation in a series of dream-like photographs
Camden, not Hackney, is the place with which the singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, will always be associated.
But for Hackney-born director Asif Kapadia, whose
