- Rambert Dance Company, purveyors of the sleekest contemporary dance, starts its autumn tour at the Lowry, Salford on 21st September, with a programme that includes Mark Baldwin's physics-inspired Constant Speed and new work by Rafael Bonachela.
- Hideko Inoue raids her grandfather's photograph albums for ideas, while Samuel Herbert paints Victorian colonists. Both are included in When I Lived in Modern Times, an exhibition of art drawn from archives, at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, from 16th September.
- Northern Ballet Theatre's David Nixon is at his thrilling best when choreographing big, mythic stories. His latest ballet, Dracula, premieres at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, from 2nd September.
- The story of Drum, South Africa's first black magazine, is dramatised in Who Killed Mr Drum?, a new play by up-and-coming playwright Fraser Grace and former Drum editor Sylvester Stein, at the Riverside Studios, London, now.
- Letters that children wrote to Albert Einstein about his unruly hair sit alongside his correspondence with Roosevelt in Man of the Century at London's Jewish Museum, from 15th September.
Under the radar
September 24, 2005
