Written as he filmed with Tilda Swinton, the notes move between an HIV diagnosis and Thatcher’s Britain
Diane Page's revival of Shange's 1970s choreopoem comes to a warehouse theatre rebuilt around a ventilation chimney and recycled brick
Mad Spirit Productions’ Serious Money at the Courtyard Theatre has great lines, a cracking tempo and accents that wander across the Atlantic
The Hackney-based electronic artist plays EartH next month, sharing a bill with synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani and Robot Koch.
Luke Jerram’s inflatable structure uses more than 100 camera obscura lenses, and opens for one day only
The founder on wheat paste, global collaboration and why the area’s creative identity feels newly fragile
The pair met in a shed in 1976 and bought a Stoke Newington house together a decade later
A new book by a local forest school teacher argues that our relationship with flames is what makes us human
Henry Say's memoir of a 1950s Shadwell childhood captures a docker's street in loving detail — just as containerisation was about to sweep it away
An intellectual, an artist and a teenage communist meet in a Pyrenean camp, played by a cast of six
Grade II listing makes upkeep costly, says a rector of 17 years, as the parish turns 200
A long-promised staging of the manga phenomenon reaches the Barbican with vibrant visuals and a punishing score — but its death gods barely haunt
