Arts

Revenge of the robots

15 October 2016 9:00 am

The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…

Box of tricks

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

It’s (still) a man’s world

15 October 2016 9:00 am

When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…

Sinful treat

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Adam Frandsen plays The Architect

15 October 2016 9:00 am

First performed 21 years ago, it’s title was The Eighth Wonder. This year it is being revived under a cumbersome…

Muslim magic

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

In 1402, when the Turkic conqueror Temur, better known in the West as Tamerlane, was poised to do battle with…

Electric: Sasha Lane as Star in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey

Going nowhere fast – and loud

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

As a general rule, I would not wish to spend nearly three hours in a mini-van with young people who…

Overshadowing all the rest

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

We don’t know what Caravaggio himself would have made of Beyond Caravaggio, the new exhibition at the National Gallery which…

Charles Own performing at the London Piano Festival, Kings Place. Photo: Amy T. Zielinski/Redferns

Grave goods

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

There’s a folder in my computer’s external hard drive in which you’ll find 24 complete recordings of the Bach Cello…

Charles Own performing at the London Piano Festival, Kings Place. Photo: Amy T. Zielinski/Redferns

Grave goods

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

There’s a folder in my computer’s external hard drive in which you’ll find 24 complete recordings of the Bach Cello…

Tragic grandeur: Tom Hollander as Henry Carr in Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’

Box of tricks

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

Tragic grandeur: Tom Hollander as Henry Carr in Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’

Box of tricks

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

Sweet and sour: Ylva Kihlberg as the Marschallin and Helen Sherman as Octavian in Opera North’s ‘Rosenkavalier’

Sinful treat

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Sweet and sour: Ylva Kihlberg as the Marschallin and Helen Sherman as Octavian in Opera North’s ‘Rosenkavalier’

Sinful treat

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey of Radio 4’s Woman's Hour. Photo: BBC/Amanda

It’s (still) a man’s world

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…

Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey of Radio 4’s Woman's Hour. Photo: BBC/Amanda

It’s (still) a man’s world

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…

Ed Harris as the sadistic baddie, the Man in Black, in Sky Atlantic’s ‘Westworld’

Revenge of the robots

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…

Kate Tempest

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…

Hole in the heart

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…

Question time

8 October 2016 9:00 am

At my wife’s first 12-week scan, I was expecting — and duly got — that much-documented sense of thrilled wonder…

Top of the Pops with silk tights

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…

Yes, he Khan

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Giselle endures in the collective imagination as a charming, sorrowful, supernatural love story. Premièred in Paris in 1841, this keystone…

Wrong side of the tracks

8 October 2016 9:00 am

You will surely have seen the posters for The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt staring from a train…

Kids’ stuff

8 October 2016 9:00 am

When a new TV channel calls its flagship food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, we might surmise that the Reithian ideals…

All things bright and beautiful

8 October 2016 9:00 am

For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…