Arts feature
Bill Forsyth interview: ‘If we hadn’t made a go of it, my plan was just to disappear.’
Award-winner Bill Forsyth tells William Cook why he was happy to walk away from film-making
Polly Teale interview: Cuts are making the theatre ‘a place where you can only survive if you are from a privileged background’
Lloyd Evans talks to the good-natured theatre director Polly Teale
A photographer sheds new light on Constable Country
Andrew Lambirth talks to Justin Partyka, whose photographs show Constable Country in an unexpected light
Robin Ticciati interview: ‘Glyndebourne is a festival where the established and the fresh exist together’
Michael Henderson talks to Glyndebourne’s fresh-faced new music director, Robin Ticciati
The very best of Broadway – a director's cut
Richard Eyre traces the history and popularity of the American musical
Batman: from midnight monster to pop-tacular star. Kapow!
Batman is 75. Peter Hoskin considers the septuagenarian’s enduring appeal
The National Gallery's Veronese is the exhibition of a lifetime
The National Gallery’s exhibition succeeds triumphantly, says Andrew Lambirth
When Britain’s avant-garde weren’t so shouty
Niru Ratnam highlights the revival of interest in artists who were popular in the 1960s and 1970s
The curator brain drain
Britain may have educated the most talented curators, but, as Jack Wakefield says, we can’t always keep them
Why are Shakespeare’s women so feeble?
Shakespeare did not give his female characters pivotal roles, but some of his contemporaries did, as Lloyd Evans discovers
Julian Mitchell on Another Country: ‘I based it on my fury and anger and I wrote it fast and it flowed'
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Julian Mitchell about the painful roots of his hit play Another Country
Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle: interview with ballet royalty
Giannandrea Poesio meets Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle, ballet’s demigods
Paloma Faith interview: 'If you do something enough times, it becomes you'
Paloma Faith has forced herself to become confident, she tells Matthew Stadlen,but sometimes she still has to put on a brave face
'At last I wasn't worried about making pictures': an interview with Mark Shields
Andrew Lambirth talks to Mark Shields, an artist whose work transcends the specific
What now for ENO?
Michael Henderson wonders what direction English National Opera will now take
What Emperor Augustus left us
Roderick Conway Morris on the influence and legacy of Augustus
Is it a good idea to splash money on European cities of culture?
Could splashing public money on city of culture initiatives make good business sense? William Cook reports
The 'detestable, bombastic, egocentric' detective — Hercule Poirot lives on
Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot
Is Hollywood finally waking up to the talents of women? Nah
Is Hollywood finally waking up to the talents of women directors? Peter Hoskin doubts it
The best thing to come out of Davos
William Cook visits the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Alpine town where the German Expressionist found refuge and inspiration
Art shows you simply mustn't miss in 2014
Andrew Lambirth reveals the treats on show in 2014
There are too few masterpieces in Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia
Andrew Lambirth on the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition
God in a stained glass window
Andrew Lambirth on the art of stained glass, as exemplified by Patrick Reyntiens
Interview David Chipperfield: It is better to be fond of architecture than amazed by it
William Cook talks to the architect David Chipperfield, whose work has made him a star in Germany
How to think like Chekhov or Turgenev
Immersion is the key to adaptation says Mike Poulton, who is bringing Turgenev and Hilary Mantel’s novels to the stage
