Arts

Sheila Reida (Gloria), Keziah Joseph (Hope) and Rachel Davies (Maureen) in Sandi Toksvig’s Silver Linings Photo by Mark Douet

Stuffed but dissatisfied

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

Sandi Toksvig’s new play opens in a Gravesend care home where five grannies and a temporary nurse are threatened by…

Doing a disservice to a lovely opera: Angela Gheorghiu as Adriana Lecouvreur

British sea power

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

The story so far: in 1986 English National Opera hired Jonathan Miller to direct Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. The…

Doing a disservice to a lovely opera: Angela Gheorghiu as Adriana Lecouvreur

British sea power

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

The story so far: in 1986 English National Opera hired Jonathan Miller to direct Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. The…

School children listen to a radio broadcast given by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in 2014

United nations

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

The Indian Prime Minister has twigged something that President Trump has yet to understand. On Monday, celebrated as World Radio…

School children listen to a radio broadcast given by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in 2014

United nations

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

The Indian Prime Minister has twigged something that President Trump has yet to understand. On Monday, celebrated as World Radio…

The SAS in the Western Desert, c.1942. John Tonkin second from right.

Fatal attraction

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

Recently on holiday I did a very bad thing. I nearly left the Fawn to die on a precipitous mountain…

Some like it hot

11 February 2017 9:00 am

In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…

Mother superior

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…

Sunny delight

11 February 2017 9:00 am

No Californian could have painted Hockney’s pools. No La-La Land artist, raised on sun and orange juice, would have done…

Drake’s progress

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Those poor Canadian rappers. Hailing from a country with a functioning benefits system, sensible firearms restrictions and relatively harmonious race…

Age concern

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Losing the plot

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…

Rules of engagement

11 February 2017 9:00 am

The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…

Impaired vision

11 February 2017 9:00 am

With the Shannon Matthews story, it’s not easy to accentuate the positive — but BBC1’s The Moorside (Tuesday) is having…

Timeless and dated

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

James Cook items, Treasures Gallery, NLA, Canberra

11 February 2017 9:00 am

If you missed the 100 Objects from the British Museum on display at the Museum of Australia, don’t despair, there…

‘Explosive eruption of Vesuvius viewed from Naples, October 1822’ by George Poulett Scrope Frontispiece from Considerations on Volcanoes, 1825

Some like it hot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…

Relative values: Annette Bening and Lucas Jade Zumann in ‘20th Century Women’

Mother superior

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…

‘Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater’, 1970, by David Hockney

Sunny delight

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

No Californian could have painted Hockney’s pools. No La-La Land artist, raised on sun and orange juice, would have done…

Age concern

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Age concern

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Timeless and dated

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

Timeless and dated

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

Losing the plot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…

Losing the plot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…