Stephen Staunton started painting his ‘patchwork dramas of colour’ after he sustained a brain injury
Hackney gallery has been transformed into an artistic bird house
The complex power dynamics of Zimbabwe post-independence is the subject of a new play at the Arcola
Verbatim play tackles radicalisation and includes interviews with Muslim teenagers from East London
Innovative production brings Leo Butler’s stark vision of 21st century London to life in Boy at the Almeida
Laplander Ulli Mattsson has penned an elegiac musical tribute to her homeland
An extraordinary tale of social exclusion, terrorism and oppression, Noughts and Crosses has now been adapted for the stage. Its director Cheryl Walker talks about black representation and why her performers are “not just actors”
A painting by George Blacklock inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà is the focus of this month’s column
A new comedy explores sexual anxiety and coming of age in the year of Ziggy Stardust and Mary Whitehouse
Amanda Houchen’s enigmatic figures are performers conditioned by the temporary nature of the stardom they crave
Songs about chicken nuggets are de rigueur in the unique pop world of the Fish Police
A one-act play for radio by Samuel Beckett is ingeniously staged at Wilton’s Music Hall