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Machinal was first performed in 1928 but its ninety-minute dissection of enforced marriage and America’s obsession with business and money-making is as resonant today as it has been over the last few decades. Playwright Sophie Treadwell (also a human rights journalist ahead of her time) took her main inspiration from the Ruth Snyder and Gray trial which led to the first execution of a woman by chair in New York State. But Treadwell only uses Snyder as a way in...

Friend who saw him in April said he went back to Bulgaria to sell his flat

Banksy posted a snap of the Brexit-themed painting, which mocks the ‘Vote Leave’ motto and changes it to ‘Vote to Love’, on his Instagram account

Duff McKagan stunned visitors when he dropped in for a tour around the locomotives

The creature, identified by a tooth, has been named Brasilestes stardusti.

Last night social media was ablaze with speculation about what Robert de Niro may have said to get bleeped out at the live broadcast of the Tony Awards. At America’s glitzy theatre awards the movie star took to the stage to introduce a performance by rocker Bruce Springsteen. When the veteran actor reached his microphone he announced: “I’m going to say one thing” but it was censored, leaving many commentators scratching their heads. However it was not long before what...

Alan Longmuir, 69, is receiving specialist care for a virus attacking his vital organs

Venue: O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire 28.5.18 Photos: Graham Berry ( Black Tea Photography) Last week Shepherds Bush Empire played host to living legends. Proto-stoner doom icons Sleep showed up to deliver on the goods, with a suite of new tunes from last month's surprise release The Sciences. TLE tog Graham Berry got amongst it to capture ever low-end bass run and shock of weed-wizadry. Read Jay Hampshire's full review of the show here.

Julie is playwright Polly Stenham’s modern day reworking of Strindberg’s naturalistic 1888 play Miss Julie. The original was daring for its emphasis on class and sex wars in an intimate realistic setting, which explains why it is has been such a mainstay in British Theatre’s diet. It is possible to see Stenham’s politically driven version as being thematically true to Strindberg’s if one wishes- it is still set on midsummer’s eve and there is still outrageous partying going on “upstairs” and...