Entertainment

The Parties of the Year: my verdict

30 November 2024 9:00 am

As the editor’s brief for this column is ‘Fomo-inducing’, I must push the boat out for my debut and am…

At Las Vegas’s Sphere I saw the future of live arts

12 October 2024 9:00 am

Does Elon Musk have a good eye for the aesthetic? Earlier this month, the Tesla magnate took a break from…

My fight with Viagogo

14 December 2021 2:45 am

My wife had a brilliant idea for my 12-year-old daughter’s Christmas present: tickets to go and see Sigrid (a pop…

Capital entertainment: how the West End became the playground of London

12 September 2020 9:00 am

The West End was always something a little apart. Some years ago, I used to go drinking with a man…

Cross-dressing in the Met. Policemen don women’s clothes to catch the Whitechapel murderer. Charles West (far right) leads the search in Jack the Ripper, 1974

Broken dreams

21 October 2017 9:00 am

In the expensive realm of musical comedy, it’s impossible to predict what will take off and what will crash and…

How consumer habits are subject to the law of unintended consequences

31 January 2015 9:00 am

Some time in the 1960s, a group of people in an advertising agency (among them Llewelyn Thomas, son of Dylan)…

‘The Lion Queen’

Roll up, roll up! A history of the circus from Ancient Egypt to the present

13 December 2014 9:00 am

Nell Gifford joins a colourful troupe of acrobats, contortionists, lion-tamers, freaks and funambulists