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Cannes 2012: Heavyweights on La Croisette
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes opens today, with Wes Anderson’s latest slice of leftfield whimsy, Moonrise Kingdom, and continues for almost two weeks of frantic film-going, star-spotting, wheeler-dealing and beach partying. For these days in May a usually somnolent seaside town becomes the cinema city that never sleeps.Cannes is still the world’s leading film festival, for good reason: the best directors in the world want their films to premiere here; everyone else has to wait in...
Help! Are you a John or a Paul?
Sunday, 06 May 2012
One day soon Beatles scholars and Professors of Fabology will emerge from their caverns and their ashrams to inform us that it was 50 years ago today. On 5 October 1962 “Love Me Do” was released and, to recycle a phrase often appended to lesser earthquakes, the world would never be the same again. There will be celebrations, doubtless, across the universe. Tribute bands will perform bootleg gigs in the likes of, probably, Indonesia and the Baltic, all booted and suited and moptopped up and...
RIP MCA of The Beastie Boys
Friday, 04 May 2012
It's hard to process the news that Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys has died - even though he had been fighting cancer since 2009. The Beastie...
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Matthew Bourne, creator of the famous male swans of his modern reinvention of Swan Lake, is to launch the nationwide screening of a spectacular new...
Read more...2012 Tony Award nominations
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Things didn’t go well for Eva Perons past and present at this morning’s announcement from New York of the nominations for Broadway’s 2012 Tony Awards...
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Edda Magnason: Interview & Video Exclusive
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
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iPads and smartphones go live with hip-hop dancing
Monday, 30 April 2012
BBC and Arts Council open new digital web channel tomorrow for experiment with arts Read more... |
theASHtray: Walliams on Dahl, Gill vs. Beard, and a new (old) play by Eugene O'Neill
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Yeah butt, no butt: our columnist sifts through the fag-ends of the cultural week Read more... |
Full programme announced for London 2012 Festival
Thursday, 26 April 2012
12,000 events featuring 25,000 artists from all 204 participating Olympic nations Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's Globe
Saturday, 21 April 2012
The World Shakespeare Festival begins triumphantly with a poem in six languages from a South African township Read more... |
Chariots of Fire is coming!
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
It must be Olympic year: the Oscar-winning film is back on screen but also on stage Read more... |
BFI celebrates ‘The Genius of Hitchcock’ in a major new retrospective
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Thrills aplenty as the BFI takes a long look at the Master of Suspense Read more... |
2012 Olivier Awards: comedy sidelined as Matilda enters the record books
Monday, 16 April 2012
Seven awards for the RSC's Roald Dahl musical but none for the NT's One Man, Two Guvnors Read more... |
Tamara Rojo, prima ballerina, becomes English National Ballet's director
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Royal Ballet star in her peak takes on management of UK ballet's hot potato Read more... |
Captain Scott's Desert Island Discs
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
A flavour of what were the happening sounds in Antarctica 100 years ago Read more... |
YouTube hoaxer makes a very convincing Mozart
Saturday, 07 April 2012
Remarkable pieces of Haydn, Mozart and Mendelssohn found - and queried Read more... |
Cash for arts: should it be bums-per-pound or pounds-per-bum?
Saturday, 31 March 2012
New music support body on defensive as Britain's composers attack en masse Read more... |
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