Clarkston review: Joe Locke proves he’s bigger than Heartstopper September 26, 2025 Clarkston play review and star rating: ★★★★★ Who better to lead a new play about the ecstatic highs and maddening pitfalls of youth than Joe Locke from Netflix’s Heartstopper, the show which basically rewrote the rule book for how Gen Z should be represented on TV. Just don’t confuse this for a star vehicle: Clarkston [...]
City PM The Magazine celebrates the arrival of autumn with a bumper new edition September 24, 2025 City PM The Magazine, Autumn edition, will be on the streets from Monday, or pick up a copy at The Royal Exchange. Past issues, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daisy Ridley, Erin Doherty and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are available to read online It’s officially autumn, heralding the return of knitwear, overpriced guilty pleasure spiced lattes, [...]
Alien: Earth actor Sandra Yi Sencindiver shares her last meal on Earth September 22, 2025 Alien: Earth actor Sandra Yi Sencindiver tells us the story of her life through food, picking a final meal that includes Danish buns, Korean pancakes and fresh Thai mangosteen I had a bit of a rocky, colourful upbringing. I’ve had different mothers. I’ve lived in different countries. My adopted parents were an American man and [...]
The Capitalist: Which Tory will be next to turn turquoise? September 19, 2025 This week’s rumours, whispers and City gossip in The Capitalist… Which Tory will be next to turn turquoise, Trump’s in town and City PM welcomes some newcomers TURNING TURQUOISE: WHICH TORY IS NEXT?Tory WhatsApp groups have been feverishly speculating on who among their number may be next to make the turquoise transition to Reform. And [...]
Romans at the Almeida review: ambitious but hard to follow September 19, 2025 Romans at the Almeida review and star rating: ★★ Writer Alice Birch’s new play, Romans: A Novel, at the Almeida Theatre, examines the disparate, disconnected, distended lives of three brothers, over more than a century. Against this backdrop, Birch – famous for her work on blockbuster television series like Succession and Normal People – explores [...]
Together film review: this horror has amazing effects and jet-black comedy September 19, 2025 Together film review and star rating: ★★★★ The term ‘joined at the hip’ takes on real-life form in this humorous body horror, starring reallife married couple Alison Brie (TV’s GLOW) and Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist). They play Millie and Tim, a longtime couple whose relationship becomes strained after a move to the countryside. While [...]
Why Satyrio is the Square Mile’s hidden Italian gem September 17, 2025 Our Toast the City Awards are celebrating the Square Mile’s top spots and takes place this October. This week: Satyrio Italian restaurant. Why do you deserve to win a coveted Slice of Toast?We would love to win because we are a small, authentic Italian restaurant – a real hidden gem. We have a lovely garden, take great [...]
The Producers, London musical review: the West End’s most shocking show September 16, 2025 The Producers musical review and star rating: ★★★★ Sequinned y-fronts emblazoned with swastikas, floral designs shaped into the Nazi symbol and sing-a-longs including lines like “it’s springtime for Hitler and Germany, Deutschland is happy and gay!” It could only be The Producers, the tongue-in-cheek Nazi musical within a musical written 58 years ago that, despite [...]
Iconic Canada building unveils three new art galleries September 10, 2025 One of Canada’s iconic buildings has unveiled three new free-to-enter art exhibition spaces that will house 24 shows over the next year. The No.1 Poultry building between Bank and St Paul’s has partnered with arts charity Hypha Studios and the Cheapside Business Alliance to turn currently unused offices into gallery space. Some [...]
