Arts
‘Dabbling’ in poetry
A fellow festival-goer at the recent Calabash literary festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, enjoyed chatting to a gentle Irish poet…
Great Scots
Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…
‘Dabbling’ in poetry
A fellow festival-goer at the recent Calabash literary festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, enjoyed chatting to a gentle Irish poet…
Great Scots
Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…
Handling Handel
The Hallelujah Chorus crops up in the most unexpected places, says Michael Marissen in his new book about Handel’s Messiah.…
Handling Handel
The Hallelujah Chorus crops up in the most unexpected places, says Michael Marissen in his new book about Handel’s Messiah.…
The producers
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted
Going Global
Isn’t it time we asked the National Theatre to support itself? Lloyd Evans says yes
Wings of desire
These days, as the sparrows and starlings so common in my youth are growing scarce, there’s less need for a…
Boringly beautiful
Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably…
Keep it clean
I am still listening to the new Coldplay album, and liking it more and more, and not just because everyone…
Close encounters
London is lucky to have heard Joyce DiDonato at the height of her powers in two consecutive seasons. The American…
Stuff happens
Richard Linklater’s observational chronicle, Boyhood, was 12 years in the making and is 166 minutes long — that’s nearly three…
Same old ground
Hampstead’s new play about the 1984 miners’ strike was nearly defeated by technical glitches. Centre stage in Ed Hall’s production…
Question time
‘Fingers on buzzers!’ says Jeremy Paxman on University Challenge. But technically this is inaccurate. Only one of the teams actually…
The lady vanishes
It seems incredible now but when the BBC’s youth station, Radio 1, was launched in 1967 there were no female…
North star
There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact…
Going Global
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_July_2014_v4.mp3 Two glorious playhouses grace the south bank of the Thames. Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre stage the…
North star
There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact…
Going Global
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_July_2014_v4.mp3 Two glorious playhouses grace the south bank of the Thames. Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre stage the…
North star
There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact…
Boringly beautiful
Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably…
Keep it clean
I am still listening to the new Coldplay album, and liking it more and more, and not just because everyone…
Keep it clean
I am still listening to the new Coldplay album, and liking it more and more, and not just because everyone…
Drawing room
Ariane Bankes talks to Quentin Blake about a new project that will bring illustration out of the shadows
