Playwright Alecky Blythe recreates a community in crisis in her latest verbatim play
Lenny Henry stars in play of radio comedy in which three generations of a family try to stop developers from turning their record shop into a supermarket
Child rearing anxiety, the meltdown of an obsessive Kate Bush fan, and a teacher who turns into a troll, all feature in Brave New Work season of one act plays
An imagined ‘yes’ vote to Scottish Independence is the backdrop to darkly humorous two-hander at Stratford East
Director Alex Crampton talks about Little Stitches, four short plays about female genital mutilation, to be performed in three London theatres, including the Arcola, this month
It’s the time of the season for alternative opera at the Arcola with annual Grimeborn festival
An Iraqi asylum seeker looking to make a fresh start in the UK finds it’s not so simple in black comedy by Nicolas Kent at the Arcola
Attitudes towards care for the elderly is the sober subtext to a surreal play at the Rosemary Branch
Raven Row hosts first exhibition in which live performances of Yvonne Rainer’s dance works feature alongside her theoretical and lyrical writing
Hilarious two-woman show retells the life of the feminist revolutionary artist Frida Kahlo
Learn the art of tango with an expert dance instructor
Director and choreographer Joseph Mercier talks about his new show Of Saints and Go-Go Boys that opens this month at Toynbee Studios
