Arts
Gregory Doran interview: 'I wanted some big hitters,' says the RSC's new supremo
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Pop: You'd love Love and Money, too - if only you'd heard of them
How and when do you become ‘a fan’, exactly? You can usually spot pop stars who are losing touch with…
Theatre review: Fleabag's scandalous success
Suddenly they’re all at it. Actors, that is, writing plays. David Haig, Rory Kinnear and Simon Paisley Day are all…
Under the Greenwood Tree - an exhibition worth travelling for
A mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints devoted to the subject of the tree might sound an unexciting event,…
Did the Proms' Billy Budd turn a mystery into a mess?
The many opera performances at the Proms this year have all been so successful, especially the Wagner series, that I…
White House Down is Roland Emmerich’s Hedda Gabler
Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…
The Wipers Times - 100 years on, this newspaper still lives
Funny what rises from the rubble. In 1916 British army officer Captain Fred Roberts was searching the bombed-out remains of…
Immigrant songs: Radio 2's My Country, My Music
Five women, five very different stories of arriving in the UK, often unwillingly and always alone. How did they cope…
Another Self-Portrait isn't just for the Bobsessives
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
A world-class orchestra in the heart of São Paulo’s Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
Do I wish I’d gone to see Peter Grimes on the beach at Aldeburgh? No
With a tidal wave of Peter Grimeses about to engulf us — performances in London, Birmingham and Leeds in September…
Laura Knight was an artist skilled in the ways of the world
The popular conception of Dame Laura Knight is of an energetic woman piling on the paint in the back of…
Blue Stockings defames women in order to defame men; Thark succeeds thanks to a trio of great perfomances
More un-Shakespearean drama at London’s leading Shakespeare venue. The Globe has pushed the Bard off stage to make way for…
About Time review: If Richard Curtis is brilliant at anything, it’s Upper Middle Class Lifestyle Porn
The easiest thing would be to sneer at Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, and so I will a little,…
Musicians are roasting at the Proms; freezing at the Bachathon
Gossip that an orchestral player fainted while performing in the Albert Hall during the recent heatwave points to a strange…
At home with President Nixon
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
Farewell to a natural born broadcaster
‘He was a natural broadcaster,’ said Nick Higham, after the death last week of the rugby player and sports broadcaster…
After watching Bad Education, Big School is as embarrassing as watching your dad trying to DJ
You know you’re getting old when TV starts getting nostalgic about eras during which you were already feeling old and…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
Barry Humphries: in praise of Australian art
A major exhibition of Australian art is about to open at the Royal Academy. Barry Humphries believes visitors will be surprised
Henry Goodman interview: How to make Brecht fun
Lloyd Evans talks to Henry Goodman about his role in the playwright’s political allegory
At last Alfred Munnings is being taken seriously again
Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959) did himself a grave and lasting disservice when he publicly attacked modern art in a bibulous…
