Arts

The joy of kabuki

8 July 2023 9:00 am

Louise Levene on the Japanese art form you can now watch at home

An icy restraint

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The world has seemed like a procession of deaths lately. Generally, of those in old age. Of all of them,…

Did ChatGPT write this? Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reviewed

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the fifth and final film in the franchise so it’s Harrison Ford’s…

Why aren’t Spoon filling stadiums?

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Here’s a mystery for you. Why were Spoon, one of the most dynamic, sharpest rock bands in the world, playing…

A play that explains why England’s football team are so lousy: Dear England, at the Olivier Theatre, reviewed

1 July 2023 9:00 am

James Graham’s entertaining new play looks at the England manager’s job. Everyone knows that coaching the national side is just…

Festival finest

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Policed conviviality: Serpentine Pavilion 2023 reviewed

1 July 2023 9:00 am

As I sat down at this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, I overheard a curious exchange. ‘You mustn’t create art within art,’…

Time to take your meds, Kanye

1 July 2023 9:00 am

No one does agonising quite like Mobeen Azhar. In several BBC documentaries now, he’s set his face to pensive, gone…

Joshua Reynolds’s revival

1 July 2023 9:00 am

In front of the banner advertising the RA Summer Exhibition, the swagger statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) by Alfred…

Why the Chester Mystery Plays are more popular than ever

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The Chester Mystery Plays date back to the 13th century – but are more popular now than ever, finds Richard Bratby

Captivating marvels

24 June 2023 9:00 am

It’s fascinating to hear that one of the greater theatre directors we have produced, Neil Armfield, is directing Anthony LaPaglia…

Terminal whimsy

24 June 2023 9:00 am

Taut as a drumskin: Dialogues des Carmélites, at Glyndebourne, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

The three Just Stop Oil protestors were sitting in the stalls, somewhere near the middle of the front row. Someone…

Two artists who broke the rules: Soutine | Kossoff, at Hastings Contemporary, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

Rules in art exist to be broken but it takes chutzpah, which could explain why so many rule-breakers in modern…

Short of sparkle: Cinderella-in-the-round, at the Royal Albert Hall, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

Having been unexpectedly delighted by the Royal Ballet’s revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games at Covent Garden last week, I…

Netflix has struck gold: Tour de France: Unchained reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

I’m ideologically opposed to bicycles for all the obvious reasons: they don’t have lovely big nostrils which you can blow…

Is Richard Thompson Britain’s Bob Dylan?

24 June 2023 9:00 am

There are artists you go to see expecting to be challenged, surprised, even let down. And there are artists you…

Gripping and admirable: BBC Radio 4’s Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origins reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

It’s the whodunnit – or whatdunnit – that has kept scientists, politicians, journalists and armchair sleuths speculating ever since the…

An unreliable history: When Winston Went to War with the Wireless, at the Donmar, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

When Winston Went to War with the Wireless is the clumsy and misleading title of a new play about John…

Is wrestling an art?

24 June 2023 9:00 am

It isn’t easy selling out Wembley Stadium with its capacity of between 70,000 and 90,000 (depending on the exact arrangement).…

Innocent pertness

17 June 2023 9:00 am

There are times when anyone might decide to throw in scanning the range of literature and art and music and…

One of the best (if not the jolliest) TV dramas of 2023: BBC1’s Best Interests reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

In the opening minutes of Best Interests (Monday and Tuesday), an estranged middle-aged couple made their separate ways to court,…

Same old, same old: Wayne McGregor’s Untitled, 2023, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

My witty friend whispered that Wayne McGregor’s new ballet Untitled, 2023 put her in mind of Google HQ – it’s…

Like attending a joyous religious service: We Will Rock You, at the Coliseum, reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

One of the earliest jukebox musicals has returned to the West End. When the show opened in 2002 the author,…

Fitting in

17 June 2023 9:00 am