So often the focus – in the coverage of a royal wedding – is the story of the woman wearing the bridal dress. While every...
Joanna Pocock’s second full-length book, Greyhound, tells the story of a single journey made and remade. In 2006, after the death of her...
Playwright Joe Orton was a merry prankster. His main work – such as Loot (1965) and What the Butler Saw...
Rachel Helleur-Simcock’s first appearance with the Hallé after appointment as leader of its cello section was auspicious – she became the soloist...
About halfway through this world premiere...
One of the great moments of Private Eye magazine’s fustiness in recent years was putting Mariah Carey in Pseud’s Corner, for the quote about how...
Forget Anna Netrebko, if you ever gave the Russian Scarpia’s former cultural ambassador much thought (theartsdesk wouldn’t). It should be...
It was the absence of performing animals that defined it in the 1980s, but contemporary...
The word "after" can be elastic when a modern writer is inspired by a classic. Nima Taleghani here stretches it to breaking point, although, to be...
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