Arts
The man behind Eric and Ernie
It takes a special sort of talent to turn a good act into a great one, and without John Ammonds,…
Filming the unfilmable
Whenever the possibility of a film version of a difficult or complex book is mooted, speculation mounts about how it…
Not the who but the how
Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…
Filming the unfilmable
Whenever the possibility of a film version of a difficult or complex book is mooted, speculation mounts about how it…
Not the who but the how
Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…
The cult horror of The Room
The Room is an awful film. Plot lines are picked up and forgotten in seconds, stock footage is repeated continuously,…
The cult horror of The Room
The Room is an awful film. Plot lines are picked up and forgotten in seconds, stock footage is repeated continuously,…
Mixed blessings
Last week, Sergei Polunin’s powerful entrance in Marguerite and Armand was saluted with a wave of electrically charged silence: not…
Sound and vision
Quite what it was that was so spellbinding about a quartet of middle-aged German blokes in skintight bodysuits standing at…
Sound and vision
Quite what it was that was so spellbinding about a quartet of middle-aged German blokes in skintight bodysuits standing at…
Hall of mirrors
At first glance, Holy Motors is all about one astonishing performance — or several, depending on how you look at…
Hall of mirrors
At first glance, Holy Motors is all about one astonishing performance — or several, depending on how you look at…
From Russia with love
If you want to know what’s so great about John Cranko’s choreography, look at the opening phrase of the final…
Time Travel
Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, until 9 March) lets you escape the winter cold to a showbiz party…
Mauvais goût
It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…
Time Travel
Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, until 9 March) lets you escape the winter cold to a showbiz party…
Mauvais goût
It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
Why Rubens should go
The Blow family has had its disasters. There has been madness, murder and suicides. But before those mishaps there was…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
Insomniac’s heaven
If I wake up at too rude an hour to get up — before four o’clock, let’s say — Through…
Insomniac’s heaven
If I wake up at too rude an hour to get up — before four o’clock, let’s say — Through…
Magical mystery tour
Pontius Pilate is deciding the fate of Ha-Notsri (aka Jesus) in Herod’s palace. In Stalin’s Moscow, meanwhile, the Devil (aka…
