Reviews
The Tudors Season, BBC Two
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Is the BBC taking dictation from the Gradgrindian brain of Michael Gove? According to the education secretary’s latest wacky diktat, what the nation’s children want is facts facts facts. Plus, in the teaching of history, lots of stuff about England/Britain giving Johnny Foreigner a bloody conk. So let’s give it up one more time for the Tudors, who are essentially our very own Nazis. This is less for the dodgy human rights record than their permanent status as a small-screen visitor...
To Kill A Mockingbird, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Every May the townspeople of Monroeville, Alabama, the home of Harper Lee, perform Christopher Sergel’s theatrical adaptation of Lee’s acclaimed, much beloved novel, on the grounds of the county courthouse. It’s a potent, somehow ironic demonstration of the enduring regard for the novel, in the very part of America whose racial intolerance Lee exposed.It’s one thing performing, and seeing this story of the Deep South in its steamy locale, where even the shade is “sweltering” and “men’s stiff...
Steve Earle, Royal Festival Hall
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Steve Earle is country music's great polymath - short story writer, playwright, novelist, activist, actor, oh yes, and singer and songwriter of some...
Rob Newman, Little Angel Theatre
Thursday, 23 May 2013
There's a quite a contrast between the 12,000-seat Wembley Arena in 1993 where, with the help of his erstwhile writing and performing partner David...
Disgraced, Bush Theatre
Thursday, 23 May 2013
There’s one big problem about being an Asian actor in America — you just don’t get the big parts. So the multitalented Ayad Akhtar put acting on hold...
Something in the Air
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Olivier Assayas recalls his heady, heavy days as a soixante-huitard |
The Kite Runner, Theatre Royal Brighton
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
A story-centric stage adaption of Khaled Hosseini's sentimental best-seller |
The King of Marvin Gardens
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Melancholy meets irrational optimism in Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood classic |
Relatively Speaking, Wyndham's Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Early Ayckbourn play fizzes anew 46 years on |
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's Wells Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Guillem weaves her game-changing magic in Forsythe and Ek |
Limbo, Southbank Centre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
London Wonderground's erotic circus bumps and grinds |
Lubomyr Melnyk, Village Underground
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The pioneer of continuous music astonishes while Bon Iver’s preferred artist Gregory Euclide paints live, on stage |
Helen Chadwick, Richard Saltoun
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Her obsession with death and decay was leavened by a wicked sense of humour |
Case Histories, BBC One
Monday, 20 May 2013
The brooding private detective is back |
Falstaff, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Monday, 20 May 2013
Comedy is king in a Falstaff revival which is consistently enjoyable but could be a little less nice |
The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women, BBC Four
Monday, 20 May 2013
The welcome return of the legacy of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld |
Ariadne auf Naxos, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Strauss's opera reluctantly enters the Battle of Britain courtesy of a young German director |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Scott Walker
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Easy listening and continental European intellectualism combine on the early albums from pop’s wilful auteur |
Say It With Flowers, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Sunday, 19 May 2013
New play about tragic Welsh diva Dorothy Squires misses the real story |
Mariele Neudecker, Regency Town House, Brighton
Sunday, 19 May 2013
The German artist plays with notions of the Romantic sublime |
CD: Jamie Cullum - Momentum
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Stylistic mash-ups of album number six result in perfect pop |
The Liability
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Brit crime caper hits new lows, despite strong cast |
La donna del lago, Royal Opera
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez and Michael Spyres triumph over adversity |
Rock ‘n’ Roll Britannia, BBC Four
Saturday, 18 May 2013
The entertaining tale of the protracted birth of a British rock scene which took America on at its own game |
Bullet Catch, Spiegeltent, Brighton
Friday, 17 May 2013
The classic shock trick provides the core for a surprisingly philosophical show |
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, British Library
Friday, 17 May 2013
A thought-provoking exhibition looking at ways in which the state seeks to wield its influence |
The Victorian in the Wall, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Friday, 17 May 2013
Will Adamsdale's new musical comedy-drama is touching, quirky and deliciously daft |
The Stoker
Friday, 17 May 2013
Nihilism stared down in Alexei Balabanov's bleak look-back to Russia in the Nineties |
Carmageddon
Friday, 17 May 2013
A car crash of a racing game |
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