From Lucian Freud to a stunning exhibition of Laurence Stephen Lowry, here are four art exhibitions to get you out of London.

Space Hamlet gleefully launches Shakespeare’s tragedy into a universe of glam rock, puppet violence and cosmic absurdity.

At its heart is David Suchet as Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose return from seven years of exile in 1170 ...

Recently, Keanu Reeves co-wrote a book with author China Miéville: The Book of Elsewhere. It had a fair bit of attention thanks to the curiosity factor of a Hollywood darling collaborating with a ...

End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland combined surreal creatures, balletic choreography and dreamlike worlds in an ...

Yet despite this, and the brilliant work of a strong ensemble led by Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan, the play still ...

Daniel Burke in the 2025 production of The Woman in Black. Photo: Mark Douet. Few plays trust their audience with fear as unflinchingly as The Woman in Black. Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation of ...

They’re dubbed duanju, or microdramas – and they’ve become big business. In China, the smartphone-friendly shows reportedly ...

If the 1955 East of Eden movie was iconic because of James Dean, Zoe Kazan’s miniseries for Netflix makes its mark with ...

Art and installations have become an increasingly valuable part of the Tour de France, such as these pieces by Karl Kopinski. Image: Rob Arnold. The Tour de France has long been a spectacle of ...

Writing a book is almost always a solitary endeavour. There is the desk, the blank page, the draft manuscript, and then the nervous wait to find out if anyone will ever read it, much less love it.

Víkingur Ólafsson. Photo: Markus Jans. Icelandic piano wunderkind Víkingur Ólafsson may now be all grown up, but his playing still felt shiny and new. He peered around at the London Philharmonic ...