Arts
Through the wringer
The main thing you should know about Captain Phillips is that it really puts you through the wringer. It’s based…
Farce and furious
Among the criticisms rightly levelled at the BBC are that its commissioning editors are overcautious, unimaginative, unadventurous and over-reliant on…
Women on top
Boy, we’ve had to wait a long time for this. But last Thursday morning something unusual happened on Radio 4;…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
The last gladdy
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Barry Humphries, alter ego of the gigastar Dame Edna
Going nowhere
Just how interesting you find The Fifth Estate may entirely depend on how interested you are in the whistle-blowing site…
First impressions
First impressions always count, and they are almost always wrong. This is particularly pertinent if you review albums for a…
The good and the ugly
The Watts Gallery, just outside Guildford off the Hog’s Back, is a delightful place to visit at any season, with…
Divine comedy
Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (but if it’s given in English, why not The Bat? Does that somehow sound too unglamorous?)…
The rivals
A feast of pleasures, and some annoyances, at the Trike. Handbagged, by Moira Buffini, is a fictional account of the…
Watching the detectives
Did Dr Jekyll turn into Jack the Ripper? Besides becoming evil Mr Hyde, did Robert L. Stevenson’s fictional creation morph…
Finding a connection
Why are we still listening to the radio in 2013, to an outdated technology that has hardly changed in manufacture…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Another country
William Cook has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it
Wizards of Oz
Astonishingly, the last major survey show of Australian art in this country was mounted more than half-a-century ago. Then it…
Spaced out
Does London need another concert hall? Or, to put it more precisely, does London need another chamber music hall? The…
Brecht will be Brecht
Brecht in the West End? Quite a rarity. Jonathan Church’s zippy and stylish version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo…
Don Q lite
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
Sensational Strauss
It’s been a sensational week for opera in London, with a sensationally good performance of Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal…
Dirty work
People are generally saying Filth fully fulfils the promise of its title and is not for the faint of heart…
Counting the cost
The acclaimed television series Breaking Bad has ended. Steffen Huck on what it can teach us about economics
