Boyd Tonkin
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The Boy with Two Hearts, National Theatre review - poignant...
It’s particularly poignant to watch this story in the knowledge that a little over a year after US-led troops withdrew from Afghanistan, women and...
James IV: Queen of the Fight, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh re...
"The poem is real," intones entertainer-turned-courtier Ellen solemnly as a prologue and epilogue to Rona Munro’s...
Album: Broken Bells - Into the Blue
Not content with having released one of the best hip-hop albums in recent memory (Cheat Codes, alongside Black Thought), producer Brian...
Inside Man, BBC One review - strong cast trapped on a sinkin...
Screenwriter and showrunner Steven Moffat is renowned for some of his work, especially...
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, National Gallery review - a...
There stands Lucian Freud in Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait), 1965 (main picture) towering over you,...
Blu-ray: Nitram
Nitram is an object lesson in how to make a responsible film about a mass shooting, right down to not using the fame-seeking...
Only an Octave Apart, Wilton's Music Hall review - inst...
You know you’re in good company the minute these two appear on stage: they are so splendidly what they are, comfortable in their own skins and...
Jaminaround, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne review - c...
The most unlikely venue: an extraordinary, authentic-as-can-be replica of a large Iron Age roundhouse. There’s a turf and grass roof, and the...
Andrew Murray: Is Socialism Possible in Britain? review - wh...
The title of Andrew Murray’s new book poses a question that also vexed...
Album: The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun
It’s fair to say that The Cult have taken on a number of identities since their mid-80s’ transformation from Goth also-rans the Death Cult to the...