Entertainment

Forget what you know about Swan Lake. Forget ballet, forget Tchaikovsky, forget magic and romance. Michael Keegan-Dolan's critically acclaimed contemporary take is like nothing you will have ever seen before, yet it is as devastatingly powerful as any adaption you are likely to see. After its sell-out success last year, Swan Lake/Loch na hEala returned to Sadler's Wells this week for a three day run. Performed by a company of 13 world-class performers including actor Mikel Murfi, the contemporary adaption is interwoven with...

Hello, please, introduce yourself and tell us a little about your show  We are Peter and Bambi Heaven Australia’s best magical entertainers and we’ve come all the way from Queensland to spray you guys with a little bit of Gold Coast Sunshine. We’re a new couple, Bambi’s only been doing magic for a few weeks but she’s made the jump from Cage-Dancer to Magicians-Assistant seamlessly. I’ve been doing this shit for thirty five years mate, so when I tell you...

Samantha Baines: the woman of many talents. Tell us a little about that you do. Haha, thank you. Well, I like to keep myself busy and keep challenging myself so I work in a few different areas, people are constantly mentioning my fingers to do with pies! I am a stand up comedian (award winning don't ya know) and I talk about science in my comedy as I find it utterly fascinating. I like to work facts into my jokes...

You might think you are making your own choices in life, but you’re not. You are, in fact, a robot, merely doing the bidding of the genetic ‘instructions’ hardwired into your brain. So says author and free will expert Paul Kwatz in this thought-provoking piece of popular science, which presents fascinating philosophical arguments in a concise, clearly-worded and engaging fashion. With a background in medicine, Kwatz writes under a pen name, and presents his readers with some hard-to-swallow facts about...

Bristol duo Meadowlark are out on tour and about to roll through the capital! Since the release of Postcards back in June, Meadowlark have had a busy summer of UK festivals and are currently gliding across the UK on a gentle wave of melodic pop. Dan and Kate took the time to say hello to TLE ahead of their show in London on Saturday (the Islington, be there). We talk their whirlwind of a debut, hair-raising live reception and the...

Is there a more “2017” opening to an album than “the world is dying, shit is getting serious”? It’s hard to think of one, but then given that this is the second album in as many months that prophesises the crumbling of civilisation perhaps this is the new normal. With vast sections of the World at loggerheads with each other, the media stoking fear and mass surveillance being rationalised by increasingly sporadic acts of terrorism it’s increasingly looking as though...

One of the magical things about Oasis was the way Liam's rough-and-ready rock blended with Noel's harmonic roll to make one of the most eminent and timeless bands of the 21st century. Like the Lennon–McCartney duo most people side with one or the other, but few would disagree that both the Beatles and Oasis would be half a band if you removed either party. Which is what makes the recent release of new records from the respective Gallagher brothers so fascinating....

This September the Saatchi Gallery launched its annual START art fair. The event serves as a showcase for emerging artists around the world. Among them this year were a number of exciting Asian artists: contemporary Indian artist Owais Husain, Chinese performance artist Liu Bolin and Vietnamese painter Nguyen Van Du. This is part of a growing trend which has seen Asian art explode in the UK over recent years. The work of Asian artists has sold for huge amounts at...

The man who was the body double for Brad Pitt in the smash-hit Snatch has now snatched himself a top prize - for his landscape photographs. The stunning snaps of Greenwich and Brighton Pier from above by Matt Cooper, 47, are being showcased as part of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition. Matt was an actor for more than a decade before he picked up his first DSLR camera on holiday in France. Having once stood in for Christopher...