Delight your inner Barbie doll
Wedding days: they’re everyone’s opportunity to live out their fairy tale. And, of course, the best way to feel like a princess is to look like a princess – cue the ever-fascinating obsession of the wedding dress.
What’s that in the background?
What are paintings all about anyway?
Not such Happy Days...
Disclaimer: do not book tickets for this as a February blues pick-me-up. The poster’s colourful, the title’s promising, but the only comedy you’ll get it the bleakest of tragicomedy.
The Blind Astronomer
Is science emotional? Clara Clark Nevola interviews theatre maker Tom Espiner about the play Going Dark to find out
AMAZING, IN CAPITAL LETTERS
As I sat down in my plush theatre seat, tucking my kiddy school bag under my legs, I suddenly felt very small.
Hipster German expressionism
So here you are. You’ve watched all the Salvador Dali films in the house, knitted all the hipster beanies you need, the bars in Shoreditch are too mainstream on a Friday night and you’ve already spent hours listening to unknown bands on Soundcloud. So what next?
All-male Swan Lake makes ballet history
Dance newbies: this is not frilly dresses and satin shoes. You will be exposed to raw power, unsettling emotions and unsettling scenes.
The invention of vibrators...
What’s in a name? Probably some erotica, as the name is “The Vibrator Play”...
The Super Secret Secret Theatre
Buy the ticket – take the ride
London Underground’s Greatest Poster Designs
What: Tube150 – 150th Anniversary of the London Underground Where: The London Transport Museum, WC2 When: Until 5th Jan 2014 Price: £11.50 students, £15 adults, for unlimited admission in 12 months
Beautiful Madam Butterfly
What: Madam Butterfly with English National Opera Where: London Coliseum, WC2 When: 14th Oct - 1st Dec 2013 Price: Various
Japanese Sex and Pleasure
So the British Museum is putting on an exhibition on Japanese pornography? Is that even allowed?! Cast away your narrow western minds and think again. For that’s what this exhibition will do — make you think again.