Arts
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
Mixed blessings
As the boundary between auction house and art dealer blurs yet further, with auctioneers acting increasingly by private treaty as…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
Over the top
Fashion Victim — the Musical!. There’s a title that’s been waiting to be used for ages. The Cinema Museum is…
Virtuoso Wagner
It seems a very short time since I interviewed Richard Farnes about Opera North’s planned Ring cycle, the dramas to…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
Run away
If it were up to me this would be called ‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window, Fell, and…
Secrets and lies
BBC2’s The Honourable Woman (Thursday) began with a rather portentous voice-over bringing us the unsurprising news that ‘We all have…
It’s all Danish to me
Out there in the great ether there’s a whole new world of radio beyond the stations of the BBC and…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
