Theatre collective 'Blockseventeen' have produced an elegant play about alienation and the dangers of romanticising the past. Elly Badcock and Ben Metters review the piece

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Mark Tyers visits Chris Coltrane's political stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival

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Outspoken art critic and commentator Robert Hughes has died. Chris Nineham pays tribute

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In the 1840s Engels wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’, based upon his experiences in Manchester. Ben Metters reviews a contemporary theatrical take on this political classic

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Hannah J. Davies reports in the Guardian on last weekend's Brainchild festival, principally organised by Counterfire supporter Marina Blake.

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Tansy Hoskins reviews the play Sofka based on the biography of the Red Princess; Sofka Dolgorouky

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Jane Shallice thinks there are modern things being said in the National Theatre’s new production of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Antigone

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Don’t miss the brilliant ‘Picasso and Modern British Art’ exhibition at the Tate Britain, says John Rees.

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Chris Walsh reviews the Scottish Ballet's production of a classic.

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The Royal Academy's exhibition on Soviet art and architecture in the years after the revolution is inspiring, poignant, and tragic - and it shouldn't be missed, writes Charles Brown.

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The Robeson Files was not a music programme or a biography of the black American singer, actor and political activist but a programme about politics: fighting racism and linking anti-racism to the wider struggle.

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From the Jarrow Crusade to the Arab Revolutions and 26 March - Mark Tyers reviews this timely exhibition of resistance.

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Paul Robeson's achievements have been shamefully neglected. Chris Nineham reviews a one-man touring play about his life, starring Tayo Aluko.

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The exhibition Shelley’s Ghost at the Bodleian Library is a rare opportunity to see the manuscripts and mementos of the most remarkable family of radical writers.

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In an unspecified future, Earth's population is kept hard working and ignorant via brain-controlling television broadcasts. The world is manipulated - everything from the Cold War to The Beatles - by the Orwellian 'MI23', whose mantra is 'Truth. Justice. Fear.'

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Banksy has hit the big screen with Exit Through the Gift Shop, but the-sauce.org suggests the Bristol graffiti artist is just a public schoolboy cashing in on others' talent.

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District 9 is a bleak, grainy, borderline apocalyptic film, but it’s also one of the most popular films in the US at the moment.

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The Spectre of Hope is a fifty minute documentary produced in 2002 in which John Berger talks to Brazilian photographer Sebasti√£o Salgado about his images of the human cost of globalisation.

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An exhibition of Futurist art at Tate Modern is a visual guide to how history played itself out in Europe and Russia during the 1910s and 1920s

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Jimmy McGovern's latest series of The Street is, well, streets ahead of any current drama on British television and a clear manifesto for how Coronation Street should be scripted.

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