The Time Out London blog team

There’s a surprising amount of wildlife living in London. Beyond pigeons, bright green parakeets, red foxes, there are aesculapian snakes living in the trees along Regent’s Canal and 50 pairs of peregrine falcons nesting across the city’s rooftops (as revealed in David Attenborough’s recent documentary). That’s not to mention all the other creatures and critters roaming our streets, parks and skies. But there’s room (and a need) for more.  Last month, the Mayor of London laid out a local nature recovery strategy, which identified green corridors and pollinator support as key priorities for boosting biodiversity in the capital. Now, there’s a project underway to restore ecosystems and bring wildlife to some of London’s most nature-deprived communities. A 14-mile ‘nature corridor’ will run from from Lee Valley Regional Park south towards the Thames through the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey and Newham. The project is being led by conservation charity Wild Cities in collaboration with local authorities, landowners, delivery organisations and civil society partners. The corridor will link community gardens, rooftops, canals, parks, football grounds and neighbourhood streets, turning them into one connected system rather than isolated pockets and making it easier for wildlife and pollinators to move freely through the capital.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wild Cities (@wildcities_)   The charity hopes that...

Mile End’s beloved cinema is turning 27, and it’s bringing the gifts to you. Celebrating in style, Genesis Cinema is pricing tickets like it's 1999, meaning your next cinema trip will cost you no more than spare change. Tickets are on offer for just £3.50, with popcorn combos for a fiver, served alongside a hand-picked selection of the finest films to grace the big screen across the last two decades. Among the unmissable flicks are Céline Sciamma’s arthouse gem Petite Maman, the BAFTA-winning How To Have Sex, and, in all his ogre glory, none other than Shrek. There will be a particularly special screening of Wim Wenders’ ’80s classic Paris, Texas, followed by a bar-side conversation with Nick Walters of Cult Classic Collective. Have your questions at the ready. Fancy something a bit more hardcore? Film bros assemble: Scarface is back in all its blood-soaked glory, featuring Al Pacino in his prime. Or revisit Patrick Bateman’s nightmare-warped universe in American Psycho, before Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming adaptation takes over the cultural conversation. You can catch them all from May 8-22, and head over to the official website to see the full birthday lineup. Take a look at the best cheap cinemas in London.

The prospect of an all-female cast version of David Mamet’s seminal drama of doomed masculinity and rampant capitalism Glengarry Glen Ross has been kicking around for a while now. Indeed, it was was even reported last year that the recent Broadway revival would flip the genders when the Kieran Culkin-led first cast departed. For whatever reason that did not happen, but clearly director Patrick Marber is very sold on the idea, as he’s now staging an all female Glengarry Glen Ross at the Old Vic this summer.  The big question is, can you just flip the play and do it the same, and the answer is probably ‘no’, which may account for why it didn’t happen on Broadway and why this is technically a new production with a new creative team. And, of course, a new cast: biggest name Indira Varma (pictured) will play Levene, the oldest person in a Chicago real estate office, a once formidable saleswoman fallen on hard times; US actor Rosa Salazar will play Roma, the sharklike, amoral saleswoman who leads the ensemble. They’ll be joined by Mercedes Bahleda, Nancy Crane, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Florence Odumosu and Niky Wardley. How exactly it lands is TBC, but famously the nature of female workplace bullying can be very different to testosterone crazed ways of men and it’ll be fascinating to see if this revival can articulate that effectively. Glengarry Glen Ross is at the Old Vic, Jun 4-Jul 18. Buy tickets here. The best new London theatre shows to book for in 2026. Michael Sheen is...