east-end-review - Hackney Citizen (Page 10)

Ken Worpole and Gareth Evans: Brightening from the East

Worpole ponders the relationship between East London and the East of England, and commemorates the work of John Berger in the centenary year of his birth in Stoke Newington

Author: Sarah Birch

American Psycho, review - a 'parting tour de force'

The musical version was Rupert Goold’s first smash production as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and he now revisits this dark, satirical commentary on 1980s corporate greed

Author: Sarah Birch

Jack Butterworth and Arty Froushan in American Psycho, Almeida Theatre. Photograph: Marc Brenner

Inside Before They Speak: Julia Phillips' visceral Barbican exhibition explores the body and human bonds

The German-American artist’s first solo show in the UK is a haunting experience, but it is well worth it

Author: Sarah Birch

Inside Before They Speak: Julia Phillips' visceral Barbican exhibition explores the body and human bonds

Just like grandma used to make — Clara’s is the new Shoreditch restaurant keeping it in the family

Clara’s is the brainchild of the Hartshorn brothers, who have left Camden behind in favour of small plates and sumptuous puddings

Author: Hackney Citizen

Just like grandma used to make — Clara’s is the new Shoreditch restaurant keeping it in the family

Comedian Imran Yusuf on upcoming BBC debut and the moment he was ‘humbled’ onstage

Yusuf got his first taste of performing at school in Hackney, and now is set to appear in the much-anticipated BBC series, 'Crookhaven'

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Comedian Imran Yusuf on upcoming BBC debut and the moment he was ‘humbled’ onstage

A blurred fate: Simon Roberts’ ‘After London’ puts future of the city into sharp focus

This blurry, dystopian volume imagines a city altered by the climate crisis, and puts the fate of Londoners front and centre

Author: Sarah Birch

A blurred fate: Simon Roberts’ ‘After London’ puts future of the city into sharp focus

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

Alison Killing is best-known for her award-winning research into detention camps in Xinjiang, China, but the story that made her career could easily have passed her by

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

'ROTUS' at Park Theatre is the one-woman show Making Theatre Great Again

Chaisty Quirk, Receptionist of the United States, is the sorority girl antagonist we didn’t know we needed

Author: Sarah Birch

'ROTUS' at Park Theatre is the one-woman show Making Theatre Great Again

LGBTQ+ club night Duckie is back after four years in new East London venue

The iconic events that once lit up the pubs of Vauxhall have an unlikely new home in Hackney

Author: Lizzie McAllister

LGBTQ+ club night Duckie is back after four years in new East London venue

London Short Film Festival comes to iconic East End venue to raise disability awareness

The six films on show ‘engage with perspectives that address the lived experience’ of disabled people in the UK

Author: Elspeth Rees

London Short Film Festival comes to iconic East End venue to raise disability awareness

We're crazy 'bao Wonton Charlie's

‘Here you’ll find east London’s foodies, elbowing each other on bar stools and smiling politely through the fog’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Freda Osayuki Igiogbe's joint exhibition at The Residence Gallery tackles 'memory, identity, and fear'

The British-Nigerian artist hopes 'Ember & Ether' will be “healing to other people”

Author: Julia Silverberg

Freda Osayuki Igiogbe's joint exhibition at The Residence Gallery tackles 'memory, identity, and fear'