Arts
Head ache
Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was…
David Hockney
Born in Yorkshire 79 years ago, he fell in love with the idea of California as a child via Hollywood…
Kids’ stuff
When a new TV channel calls its flagship food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, we might surmise that the Reithian ideals…
Wrong side of the tracks
You will surely have seen the posters for The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt staring from a train…
Yes, he Khan
Giselle endures in the collective imagination as a charming, sorrowful, supernatural love story. Premièred in Paris in 1841, this keystone…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Top of the Pops with silk tights
Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…
Top of the Pops with silk tights
Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…
Hole in the heart
Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…
Hole in the heart
Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…
Head ache
Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was…
Head ache
Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was…
Question time
At my wife’s first 12-week scan, I was expecting — and duly got — that much-documented sense of thrilled wonder…
American beauty
‘At last,’ wrote Patrick Heron, a British painter, in 1956, ‘we can see for ourselves what it is to stand…
Kevin Jackson as Nijinsky
In 1981, at the Sydney Theatre Company, we presented a stylish production of Chinchilla, a play by Robert David MacDonald…
Hilarious, puzzling, boring
No Man’s Land isn’t quite as great as its classic status suggests. At first sight the script is a bit…
Bach to basics
The churning, rheumatic mechanism of a harpsichord — notes needling your ears like drops of acid rain — doesn’t necessarily…
Breaking up is hard to do
’Will you be dancing?’ the man in front asks his friend before the lights go down. ‘Most likely,’ she says.…
Losing heart
The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…
There’s something about Mary
Music likes to tell the same story over and over again. This is part of its tradition but even individual…
Close encounters of the Eighties kind
Stranger Things is the most delightful, gripping, charming, nostalgic, compulsive, edge-of-seat entertainment I’ve had in ages. Like a lot of…
One day in November
The weather was ‘treacherous’ on Saturday, 23 November 2013, the day chosen randomly by Gary Younge as the focus for…
White Knight
Free State of Jones is an American Civil War drama ‘inspired’ by the life of Newton Knight, who led an…
