Posts by Sarah Birch
Latitudes review – ‘Adventures in far-flung places’
Stoke Newington author Jean McNeil’s part memoir, part travelogue will linger long in the memory
Read MoreWe Cook Plants review – ‘A challenge you’re sure to relish’
Cooking charity founder Sarah Bentley offers up a persuasive guide to plant-based cuisine
Read MoreThe Boy on the Train review – ‘Deliciously twisty tale’
Local author Martin Goodman’s new novel sees ‘greed set against cunning’
Read MoreI Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies review – ‘An exhibition to which we can well relate’
‘Fragmented backgrounds embroider our lives in lovely ways’
Read MoreCandice Lin review – ‘These fabulations may be familiar to those of us who wince at the triviality of our own lives’
Behold an allegorical landscape at the Whitechapel Gallery
Read MoreFrank Watson review – ‘recounting the many minor mysteries of fraying English life in tucked-away spots’
His photographs walk the fine line between the banal and the sublime
Read MorePortraits of Slovak and Czech Britain review: ‘fresh insights’
Scientists, artists and more pose for Peaky Blinders photographer Robert Viglasky
Read MoreEncounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’
The latest pairing of modern art with the Italian sculptor’s work explores ‘the various ways the human form can come to harm’
Read MoreBetrayal in Berlin, Michael Shew, book review: ‘Full-throttle narrative’
The local author’s new thriller sees a scientist ‘torn between love and defence of the realm’
Read MoreOn the Boardwalk, Martin Sherman, book review: ‘Deliciously droll’
The playwright’s ‘intensely personal’ memoir focuses on the years before he found fame
Read MoreThe Gathered Leaves, Park Theatre, stage review: ‘Nuanced study of the autistic spectrum’
Star turns from Jonathan Hyde and Taneetrah Porter lift this adaptation of Andrew Keatley’s play
Read More‘Once a young person feels seen, they start to dream differently’
Hackney-based director Emeka Egbuono and actor Michael Adurson tell the Citizen about their new film, Stolen Dreams 2: Redemption
Read More‘Biblical themes abound’ – Jonah Non Grata at the Hen and Chickens
‘Hilariously incongruous snippets of popular culture and much zany improv’
Read MoreDan Guthrie: Empty Alcove/Rotting Figure, Chisenhale Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Fantasy of erasure’
Guthrie’s videos of places with racist objects artificially removed leave us with ‘hope that we might get there one day’
Read More‘It’s a real adaptation’: Team behind Our Cosmic Dust on bringing the award-winning play from Tokyo to London
The director, translator and lead actor spoke to the Citizen as the show begins its run at the Park Theatre
Read MoreHamad Butt: Apprehensions, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘A salutary reminder’
The artist, who died of AIDS in 1994 aged just 32, takes the ‘hazards of deadly disease as a central focus’
Read MoreV&A East Storehouse to open this weekend – with a ‘huge trove’ of treasures to comb through
The Citizen was given a peek inside the museum’s huge depository, which members of the public can peruse from 31 May
Read MoreEncounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘A temporal and cultural journey’
The first in a trio of shows combining the work of sculptor Alberto Giacomettit with that of other artists ‘engages thoughtfully with what we are made of’
Read MoreAll the Young Queers, Nathan Evans, book review: ‘Deliciously creative’
The local author’s collection of short stories provides a ‘kaleidoscopic portrait of growing up as LGBTQ+ in Britain’
Read More‘You need the community’: Meet the actors building Hackney’s newest theatre
Husband-and-wife team Avital Lvova and James Alexandrou are set to open Playhouse East this month
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