Arts Council
Letters: White working-class pupils have been forgotten
In the way of justice Sir: Robert Jenrick is right to suggest that, as well as leaving the European Convention…
A keeper: ENO’s new The Elixir of Love reviewed
There was some light booing on the first night of English National Opera’s The Elixir of Love, but it was…
Across Britain punters are lapping up ultra-trad opera – the Arts Council will be disgusted
Another week at the opera, another evening with an elitist and ethically dubious art form. I love it; you love…
In defence of the Arts Council
I once knew a monster who said she could not read Proust because there were no figures in Proust with…
National disasters
It is high time the Arts Council put ENO and ENB out of their misery, says Rupert Christiansen
Soused in bilge
The Fever Syndrome is a dramatised lecture set in a New York brownstone occupied by the super-brainy Myers family. The…
The people’s choice
Richard Bratby talks to one of Britain’s most successful impresarios about his promoter’s nose, Arts Council spinelessness and ENO madness
National review
Why does the state fund theatres and not gardening and bingo, asks Lloyd Evans
Blacktivist rhetoric and impenetrable symbols: Misty reviewed
Arinzé Kene’s play Misty is a collection of rap numbers and skits about a fare dodger, Lucas, from Hackney. Lucas…
The former head of the RSC finds cause for optimism in the Arts Council cuts
He looks like an absent-minded watchmaker, or a homeless chess champion, or a stray physics genius trying to find his…
Director’s cut
Much fuss has been made of the title given to Sir Simon Rattle on arrival at the London Symphony Orchestra.…
ENO must go…
Last week Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, revealed that opera receives just under a fifth of the…
Barometer
Matters of life and death Lord Lucan is now officially presumed dead. How do you have someone declared dead? In…
Unforgettable fire
How much of a compromise does a fashionable choreographer loved by all have to make with his paymasters? When he’s…
State of the arts
The season of cringe-making acceptance speeches at arts awards ceremonies is nearly over, thank heavens. But it hasn’t passed without…
Long life
I went last week to see the justly praised production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers at English National Opera, and I…
Going Global
Isn’t it time we asked the National Theatre to support itself? Lloyd Evans says yes
Labour’s fifth column
David Cameron’s government continues to subsidise its critics
