Arts
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
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When did you last experience a boring Sunday afternoon? If you’re over 16, probably not since you were last 16…
Faulty ignition
Apart from the next Game of Thrones, there’s nothing I’ve been looking forward to quite as much as The Grand…
Precious metal
Who could resist School of Rock? For me it was a chance to see a heavy-metal musical written by the…
The kiss Auguste Rodin (1901-04)
Local writers have been repurposing Kenneth Clark’s 1958 differentiation of the nude from naked in discussing the current exhibition at…
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St James’s Palace. 1953. A dynamic Duke of Edinburgh is relishing a ding-dong with the antediluvian fossils of the Coronation…
You’ve lost that loving feeling
A United Kingdom is based on the greatest love story you probably didn’t have a clue about. I know I…
The beast in man
Ernest Hemingway loved going to the zoo, but not on Sundays. The reason, he explained, was that, ‘I don’t like…
Precious metal
Who could resist School of Rock? For me it was a chance to see a heavy-metal musical written by the…
Precious metal
Who could resist School of Rock? For me it was a chance to see a heavy-metal musical written by the…
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
Interest-free credit
When did you last experience a boring Sunday afternoon? If you’re over 16, probably not since you were last 16…
Interest-free credit
When did you last experience a boring Sunday afternoon? If you’re over 16, probably not since you were last 16…
Faulty ignition
Apart from the next Game of Thrones, there’s nothing I’ve been looking forward to quite as much as The Grand…
About a boy
Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel —…
Serious concerns
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end…
Stuck on stucco
Whenever the words ‘stucco house’ appear in the newspapers, you can be certain the occupiers have been up to no…
Another fine mess
I wonder why ENO has invested in a new production of Berg’s Lulu, when the previous one, which we first…
Whodunnit
Barbed wire, concrete, razor blades, passports, Bakelite and the sewage system are all crucial to the way we live now…
Old stamping ground
If I tell you that on Monday there was an hour-long documentary about the history of stamp-collecting, then you probably…
Space oddity
One of David Bowie’s last works, Lazarus, is a musical based on Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell to…
Rose Byrne at rehearsal
David Mamet has a birthday next week; he’ll be turning 69. Quite a grand old man of American letters. Playwright…
Where the wild things are
‘What is man, that thou art mindful of him?’ asks the Psalmist. It’s a good question. God Himself doesn’t give…
Stuck on stucco
Whenever the words ‘stucco house’ appear in the newspapers, you can be certain the occupiers have been up to no…
