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Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves

String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens

The Guardian - UK

Will Gompertz to become director of Sir John Soane’s Museum

Former BBC arts editor who is currently artistic director of the Barbican will take over in the new year

The Guardian - UK

Labour wars continue as Sadiq Khan has a coded pop at Keir Starmer on Brexit

Khan has told the New York Times that he’s ‘frustrated’ no one is talking about Brexit

Evening Standard

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The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review

Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely

The Guardian - UK

42nd Street review: new production has ‘energy and pizzazz’

In 2021, the success of “Anything Goes” at the Barbican proved that there remains a strong appetite for “classic tune and toe shows”, said Fiona Mountford in The i Paper. And this new production of “42nd Street” – a musical that was first staged in 1980, but which is based…

The Week

Barbican apologises after asking speaker to avoid topic of ‘free Palestine’

A co-founder of the Palestinian station Radio Alhara was due to address the arts centre via a livestream

The Guardian - UK

Brutalist homes for sale in London now — from the Barbican to the Trellick Tower

It might still be architectural Marmite, but with Beyoncé and Gwyneth both expressing a fondness for concrete, Brutalism is undeniably back in style

Evening Standard

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A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction review - climate change show is provocative but preachy

It’s a Sin’s Lydia West brings vulnerability and likeability to her stage debut

Evening Standard

On my radar: Ardal O’Hanlon’s cultural highlights

The Father Ted actor on laughing out loud at Jamie Demetriou, an architectural pilgrimage to Pennsylvania and where to find Dublin’s fanciest artichoke

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro to return to the Barbican

The Studio Ghibli adaptation, which is up for nine Olivier awards this weekend, will open in November

The Guardian - UK

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican review: a loyal but innovative adaptation

The production wonderfully brings to life the dry comedy and compelling strangeness of the original text

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (February 17 — 19)

From the final tickets for a Filipino pop-up to a brand new Barbican exhibition, Mike Daw picks what to get up to in London this weekend

Evening Standard

‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

The biggest exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits in the UK to date opens this week at the Barbican. Eloise Hendy explores the life of an artist whose canvases captured everyone from Andy Warhol to the socially marginalised

The Independent UK

Things to do in London this half term: The best things to get up to during the school break

From family film clubs to anime, to Kafka for kids and even a little piracy, Josh Barrie and Mike Daw have a guide to the ultimate half term fun

Evening Standard

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London museum and gallery lates 2023: Best evening events and exhibitions from the Science Museum to Barbican

Looking for something cultural to do in London in the evening? Here’s our pick

The Guardian - UK

The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

‘Ticket Bank’ to offer free access to London theatre shows

Scheme will make 1,000 tickets available every week to those who cannot afford to pay for cultural activities

The Guardian - UK

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Harding review – gorgeous Mahler with expressionist edge

Daniel Harding led a modernist interpretation of Mahler’s Ninth full of fierce drama, eloquence and intensity, in the orchestra’s thrilling return to this hall

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How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time

Evening Standard

My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican review: it’s easier to admire this Studio Ghibli adaptation than love it

This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters

Evening Standard

Our top 12 shows to book now at the EFG London Jazz Festival 2022 from Nubiyan Twist to Melody Gardot

The pick of the shows from the event’s largest ever line-up

Evening Standard

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at Barbican - her brilliance as an artistic and political force never waned

This survey of work by the feminist art pioneer can get a bit chewy but the seminal pieces are a thrill

The Hindu

Architecture must obey the ecology of the land, says Vinu Daniel

The avant-garde architect’s creations in ‘clothcrete’ will be part of an exhibition on climate change in London

The Guardian - UK

Immersive exhibitions: the future of art or overpriced theme parks?

You can see Van Gogh’s brush strokes being applied or watch aliens dancing. But true immersion should mean more than just access to the latest tech

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

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