Arts

Moody shifts of tone

9 March 2024 9:00 am

It’s interesting to see a new production of The Sound of Music is on at the National Theatre (a somewhat…

Devastating: Almeida Theatre’s King Lear reviewed

9 March 2024 9:00 am

Yaël Farber’s production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre is imbued with an undercurrent of tension that feels as…

Power beyond eloquence

2 March 2024 9:00 am

It was fascinating to catch up with the Grammys the other night. There was the cheering sight of Miley Cyrus…

The composer of dog-food ads who also wrote one of the most original cycles of British symphonies

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Next month in London, they’re celebrating a composer you’ve probably never heard of, but whose work you’re sure to have…

An all-but-lost treasure

24 February 2024 9:00 am

Tennessee Williams is still looking like one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century and the plays he wrote…