Arts
Northern light
Purists might have winced at Opera North’s advertisement for its latest revival of La Bohème. ‘If you see one musical…
Failed experiment
The Silver Tassie is the major opening at the Lyttelton this spring. Sean O’Casey’s rarely staged play introduces us to…
Visual bombast
Godzilla is from the director Gareth Edwards, a Brit whose first film, Monsters, truly put him on the map, as…
Touchstone of humanity
Which character are you in Game of Thrones? For me it’s got to be the imp, Tyrion Lannister. As Ed…
Lines of beauty
A rustle of paper as the sleeve is removed. A clunk and click as the needle arm is swung across.…
Sketches of war and peace
Soldier scribes are rare, soldier artists rarer still, and soldiers who can write and draw rarest of all. General Henry…
Sketches of war and peace
Soldier scribes are rare, soldier artists rarer still, and soldiers who can write and draw rarest of all. General Henry…
The quiet man
Shigeru Ban is the celebrated architect who refuses to become a celebrity. Thus, at 57, his career has run opposite…
Sketches of war and peace
Soldier scribes are rare, soldier artists rarer still, and soldiers who can write and draw rarest of all. General Henry…
Musical youth
Michael Henderson talks to Glyndebourne’s fresh-faced new music director, Robin Ticciati
Spring round-up
Jankel Adler (1895–1949), a Polish Jew who arrived in Glasgow in 1941, was invalided out of the Polish army, and…
Master of melancholy
Like other species, artists club together in movements not just for purposes of identification but for longevity. Individuals who don’t…
Tangled up in blue
Off to the Gate for a special treat: a pious anti-war monologue from the prize-winning American George Brant. Curtain up.…
Not guilty
The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…
Oedipus wrecks
I had high hopes for Julian Anderson’s first opera, Thebans. Premièred at the Coliseum last Saturday, it promised to mark…
Out of the ordinary
Frank is a music biopic, but only of sorts, as it is not at all like your average music biopic.…
Watching the clock
Whatever worries Kiefer Sutherland may have had about reprising the role of Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another Day (Sky1,…
Bedtime stories
There I was trapped in the bathroom at 10.55 p.m., unable to leave for fear of missing anything. The time…
Domestic harmony
Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…
Domestic harmony
Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…
Domestic harmony
Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…
Not guilty
The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…
Not guilty
The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…
Finding the emotional charge
Richard Eyre traces the history and popularity of the American musical
Perfect harmony
To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…
