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Theatre
Award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock provides poignancy and fury in her epic on slavery, legacy and representation
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Theatre
The Globe’s Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes presents a Twelfth Night that sparkles with gender fluidity, astute comic timing and nostalgic Americana
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Contemporary Music
Lana Del Rey's seventh studio album Chemtrails is a gorgeous, minimalist and confident anthology, mixing nostalgic fantasies with personal storytelling
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Beauty
New home scents, a believable skin-tint, spa-grade skincare, sustainable cotton pads, an immunity tincture and a brilliant recipe read that will conjure up your culinary skills
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Beauty
Going plastic-free, summer skincare, Asian destination scents, eco ways to scent your home, and the latest brilliant initiative for the BLM movement
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Beauty
Supplements to suit you, the best body products to buy now and how to recreate a Swedish spa at home
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Food & Drink
Ampéli revives Charlotte Street's long history of Greek-Cypriot cooking. Delicious and different, it's so good it makes you want to start dancing on the tables
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Theatre
Hotshot American writer Annie Baker returns to the National Theatre with The Antipodes, a new play about stories
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Award-winning Welsh writer Ed Thomas ponders the relationship between place and memory in On Bear Ridge, a surreal and eerie tragicomedy starring Rhys Ifans
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Food & Drink
Hide, Ollie Dabbous’s Michelin-starred restaurant, now serves ‘brunch'. But it's a far cry from the egg-centric meal you're used to...
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Theatre
Dominic Hill's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park is dark, hilarious and open air theatre at its very best
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Cinema
Redoubtable is an amusing and self-aware take on the life of one of France's most celebrated auteurs
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Famed all over South East Asia, Bangkok's high fashion Greyhound Cafe comes to London with modern Thai-style cooking, a design-led interior and hip play list
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Roll up for babka, shakshuka and the best pitta, The Good Egg brings Middle Eastern/Jewish food to Soho with chutzpah
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Food & Drink
Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the world-renowned Michelin-starred chef, returns to the London restaurant scene
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TV
Best-selling British novelist Patrick Gale's novels are being adapted for the BBC this summer in this heart-breaking study of male intimacy
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Cinema
Comedy Snatched sees Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn take the mother of all family vacations
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Cinema
Anne Hathaway stars as a struggling writer by day and party-girl turned monster by night in this Colossal hit of a film
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Theatre
Wonderland returns to the Vaults below Waterloo station for an immersive theatre adventure inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic children's story
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Theatre
Irony and black comedy return in this revival of Dead Funny, starring Katherine Parkinson and Ralf Little
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Pizza Pilgrims brings trademark sourdough crusts and flavoursome, balanced toppings to the West End
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Theatre
Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry's searing play about racial tension and revolution in an African country is revived with clout
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Theatre
Owen Sheers explores the trauma of contemporary warfare with the lyricism of the WWI poets in his play Pink Mist
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Theatre
WEST END TRANSFER: Martin McDonagh's gripping new play, Hangmen, is just as sparky on the West End after sellout success at Royal Court
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Theatre
Penny Skinner's new play is a roaring, rousing portrait of a woman who refuses to be sidelined
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Cinema
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are nothing short of hypnotising in Todd Hayne's electrifying period film Carol. Here's our review from London Film Festival 2015
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Food & Drink
We visit the latest from Marcus Wareing: Tredwell's Restaurant review, Seven Dials
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Cinema
Nicholas Hytner's screen adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is witty, charming and heart-warming, with a mighty performance from Maggie Smith
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Food
REVIEW: Rudie's Jamaican restaurant - London gets a new high-end Jamaican joint
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Shakespeare at the National Theatre gets a mystical makeover in a fresh, As You Like it with a radiant performance from Rosalie Craig
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Theatre
Richard Eyre and Simon Russell Beale join forces in Ian Kelly's new comedy which brings a riot of theatricality and hilarity to the West End