Cabaret
Even Adrian Lester's sweetness, grace and nobility can't rescue Almeida's Hymn
Lloyd Evans 27 February 2021 9:00 am
The Almeida is fighting back against lockdown with a sprawling family drama about two long-lost siblings. Adrian Lester plays Gilbert…
Joyce DiDonato seduces you within the first 10 minutes: Royal Opera’s Agrippina reviewed
Alexandra Coghlan 5 October 2019 9:00 am
‘Laws bow down before the desire to rule…’ Centuries before ‘proroguing’ had entered British breakfast-table vocabulary there was Handel’s Agrippina,…
A short history of art deco – from high art to two-tone shoes, garden gates to Twiggy
Peter York 1 December 2018 9:00 am
On 10 September 1973 the 1930s Kensington High Street department store formerly known as Derry & Toms reopened as Big…
Barry Humphries on Trump, transgender ‘rat-baggery’ and causing maximum offence
Lloyd Evans 21 July 2018 9:00 am
‘I’m an amateur,’ Barry Humphries tells me. The Australian polymath uses the word in its older sense of ‘enthusiast’ rather…