Seasonal suggestions
Go now
The Globe Theatre’s new production of Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s epic story of love, duty and power, is on now, until September 15. All performances are captioned. Standing tickets from £5 (www. shakespearesglobe.com) For the first time in its 175-year history, The State Ballet of Georgia will dance in London. Its production of Swan Lake, accompanied by the English National Opera Orchestra, is at London Coliseum from August 28– September 8.
Tickets from £29 (www.london coliseum.org) Explore the evolution of fashion
photography as art in ‘Beyond Fashion’ (right) at the Saatchi Gallery, until September 8 (www.saatchigallery.com) Whitechapel Gallery presents ‘Peter Kennard: Archive
of Dissent’—bringing together influential images from the photographer’s five-decade career, from the Vietnam War to contemporary events, until January 19, 2025 (www. whitechapelgallery.org) Summer feels even sweeter with the opening of The River Cafe Café, the first new River Cafe restaurant opening since the original launched in 1987 in W6. As well as breakfast and lunch, the café, which is next to the restaurant, will have pastries, ice creams and an Italian hot selection to take away (www.the rivercafe.co.uk)
Book ahead
Join author Katy Hessel (The Story of Art Without Men) at the Garden Museum on September 10, for a discussion on gardening, culture and women of the Bloomsbury Group—planned to coincide with the exhibition ‘Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women
Outdoors’. Tickets from £10 (www.gardenmuseum.org.uk)
Jodie Whittaker (left; Doctor Who) returns to the stage in The Duchess, an adaptation of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, at the Trafalgar Theatre on October 5. Tickets from £25 (www. trafalgartheatre.com)