Arts
Platitude in pearls
Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…
Gangs busted
You wait a whole lifetime for a lavishly shot, starrily cast, mega-budget gangster drama set in Birmingham to come along.…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
Man with a plan
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Love rekindled
How and when do you become ‘a fan’, exactly? You can usually spot pop stars who are losing touch with…
Porn and pontiffs
Suddenly they’re all at it. Actors, that is, writing plays. David Haig, Rory Kinnear and Simon Paisley Day are all…
Root and branch
A mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints devoted to the subject of the tree might sound an unexciting event,…
Reincarnations of Wagner
The many opera performances at the Proms this year have all been so successful, especially the Wagner series, that I…
Explosive fun
Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…
Comic relief
Funny what rises from the rubble. In 1916 British army officer Captain Fred Roberts was searching the bombed-out remains of…
Take five
Five women, five very different stories of arriving in the UK, often unwillingly and always alone. How did they cope…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Classics in Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
On the beach
With a tidal wave of Peter Grimeses about to engulf us — performances in London, Birmingham and Leeds in September…
Ways of the world
The popular conception of Dame Laura Knight is of an energetic woman piling on the paint in the back of…
Girls allowed
More un-Shakespearean drama at London’s leading Shakespeare venue. The Globe has pushed the Bard off stage to make way for…
Sweet and sour
The easiest thing would be to sneer at Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, and so I will a little,…
It ain’t half hot
Gossip that an orchestral player fainted while performing in the Albert Hall during the recent heatwave points to a strange…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
The human factor
‘He was a natural broadcaster,’ said Nick Higham, after the death last week of the rugby player and sports broadcaster…
School’s in
You know you’re getting old when TV starts getting nostalgic about eras during which you were already feeling old and…
