Time Out No. #66 | Tuesday 13 July 2021

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In pictures: Londoners react as England lose at Wembley

Football. What a massive bastard. Whether you’re a fan of the sport or not, you will have felt the capital’s mood tangibly rising throughout June and July, courtesy of a surprisingly fantastic England performance in the European Championships. That all came to an end Sunday night, when the national team were taken to penalties (and beaten) by a powerful and handsome Italian side. We sent photographer Orlando Gili to Wembley and the streets of central London to capture the mood before and after the match.
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Fingers on buzzers

St Paul’s Cathedral was originally intended to have a 60-foot sculpture of which fruit on its dome?

Three plays to get excited about now

Andrzej Łukowski

Theatre editor

@MrLukowski

The first really big OMG! An actual A-list movie star on an actual stage! moment for London theatre since the pandemic finally comes in September when Saoirse Ronan hits the London stage as Lady Macbeth in the Almeida’s feminist-slanted new take on ‘Macbeth’ (Sep 25-Nov 20, actually going out under the play’s proper name ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’). Tickets aren’t on sale yet, which is good news if you want one as the Almeida only has 300 seats, so we’re talking instant sell out.

This Bob Marley musical has been savagely buffeted around by the pandemic and rescheduled a full three times, but hopefully it’s going to worth the wait as ‘Get Up, Stand Up!’ (Oct 1-Apr 2) as all the signs of being an original West End musical that’s actually really good. It’s led by some absolutely colossal Brit talents, including Arinzę Kene as Bob himself, and it’s got one of the last great songbooks not tapped for a hit musical already. Director Clint Dyer told me last year the bass would blow the doors off, and I believe him.

The National Theatre’s adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane blew my face off when it ran in the NT’s smallest theatre, the Dorfman, over Christmas 2019 – it was intense, dreamy stuff that as much as anything served as a reminder of how little proper fantasy you actually see on stage. It was due to transfer to the West End last year but will finally do so in the autumn (Oct 23-Feb 12).

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Top new places to eat in London

We’re still (technically) in lockdown and yet there are still new dining spots opening in London every single week. The city’s restaurant scene is an unkillable monster! A sexy, delicious monster that makes all of our lives better. Here are six recent openings that we can, hand-on-heart, say are really, really good.

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Feelgood links to ease the pain

The other final: photos of Germany versus England, 1966, in colour

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A Twitter thread full of pictures of food-shaped cars 

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To celebrate his 65th birthday Tom Hanks went and recorded a radio show

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Fantastic photos of a long-gone London refuge for South Asian nannies

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Quick bites

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