Arts
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…
Class act
Cripes. How did I get that one wrong? A few issues back I blithely predicted that Harry Hill’s musical I…
New ways of seeing
This exhibition examines a loosely knit community of artists and their interaction over a decade at the beginning of the…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Shock and gore
Blue Ruin is a low-budget yet highly accomplished revenge thriller although whether you have the stomach for it is another…
Chorus of approval
Within the space of a few weeks we have had the rare chance of seeing the two great torsos of…
Cheating history
I was so looking forward to Generation War (BBC2, Saturday) — a three-part drama series covering the second world war…
Dumped by Tom
Did you hear those bloodcurdling screams from Kirsty? Those long-drawn-out wails that echoed horrifically through the ancient walls of St…
Spirit of Soho
Every so often, John Deakin, jug-eared chronicler of Soho and hanger-on at the Colony Rooms, is breathlessly rediscovered as the…
Spirit of Soho
Every so often, John Deakin, jug-eared chronicler of Soho and hanger-on at the Colony Rooms, is breathlessly rediscovered as the…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Spirit of Soho
Every so often, John Deakin, jug-eared chronicler of Soho and hanger-on at the Colony Rooms, is breathlessly rediscovered as the…
