Arts

People of extraordinary glamour

18 November 2023 9:00 am

A refreshing and humbling prospect, in a world where we sometimes imagine cultural coverage gets better, is to revisit the…

The death of TV

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Character acting without the character

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Miss Saigon may on the face of it seem like an odd choice of musical for Opera Australia to revive…

Has all the charisma of Chernobyl: Manchester’s Aviva Studios reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

There is a (possibly apocryphal) story about William Morris, where he spends most of his time in Paris inside the…

Subtle, intriguing and inventive: Rambert’s Death Trap reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Ben Duke belongs to a class of younger choreographers who have decided to flout the convention that dancers should remain…

Branagh can’t quite banish the spirit of Noel Edmonds: King Lear, at Wyndham’s Theatre, reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Branagh vs Lear. The big fixture in theatreland ends in a win for Shakespeare’s knotty and intractable script which usually…