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Culture buff
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Richard Tognetti as its Artistic Director. That…
Going for a song
This column does like a bargain. Indeed, it not only esteems and relishes a bargain, it has also worked long…
Dual control
Legend is a biopic of the Kray twins starring Tom Hardy as Reggie and Tom Hardy as Ronnie, so it’s…
See no evil
When I was at university, Reggie Kray was my penpal. I wrote to him in 1991, asking for an interview…
Going for a song
This column does like a bargain. Indeed, it not only esteems and relishes a bargain, it has also worked long…
Going for a song
This column does like a bargain. Indeed, it not only esteems and relishes a bargain, it has also worked long…
Get me to an opera house
In anyone’s hands, Verdi’s Aida is not the easiest opera to raise up to greatness on the stage. How does…
Get me to an opera house
In anyone’s hands, Verdi’s Aida is not the easiest opera to raise up to greatness on the stage. How does…
Nice work
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/merkelstragicmistake/media.mp3 You can’t play the part of Hamlet, only parts of Hamlet. And the bits Benedict Cumberbatch offers us…
Nice work
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/merkelstragicmistake/media.mp3 You can’t play the part of Hamlet, only parts of Hamlet. And the bits Benedict Cumberbatch offers us…
Cock and bull
It’s hard to know whether the actor James Norton was being naive or disingenuous when he claimed in publicity interviews…
All white on the night
Trevor Nunn is staging Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses without a single black actor. So what, says Robert Gore-Langton
Bad conduct
To be honest, my friendship with Michael Tilson Thomas hasn’t gone quite as I had hoped. It started in February…
Touchy-feely – not
‘The eye is fatigued, perverted, shallow, its culture is degenerate, degraded and obsolete.’ Welcome to the Palpable Art Manifesto of…
Lifting the veil
Finally I realise why women are so pissed off. It all goes back to the first codified laws — circa…
Shtumming the spiel
London may cry foul over Hamlet’s misplaced to-be-ing and not-to-be-ing but Edinburgh is in raptures over a Magic Flute which…
Art by committee
Australia, 1788. A transport ship arrives in Port Jackson (later Sydney harbour) carrying hundreds of convicts and a detachment of…
Family matters
The Second Mother is a Brazilian film concerning a wealthy family, their live-in housekeeper, and the arrival of the housekeeper’s…
Loose women
Late Night Woman’s Hour has created a Twitter storm with its twice-weekly (Thursdays and Fridays) doses of ‘mischievous and unbridled…
Press night
Sam Mendes once said there is no such thing as the history of British theatre, only the history of British…
Culture buff
It is not possible to imagine classical ballet without the music of Tchaikovsky. The scores of his three full length…
Family matters
The Second Mother is a Brazilian film concerning a wealthy family, their live-in housekeeper, and the arrival of the housekeeper’s…
All white on the night
Shakespeare’s ‘Wars of the Roses’ will have no ethnic minority actors in the cast when the shows (two Henry VI…
Shtumming the spiel
London may cry foul over Hamlet’s misplaced to-be-ing and not-to-be-ing but Edinburgh is in raptures over a Magic Flute which…
Shtumming the spiel
London may cry foul over Hamlet’s misplaced to-be-ing and not-to-be-ing but Edinburgh is in raptures over a Magic Flute which…
