Reviews
Relatively Speaking, Wyndham's Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The pronouns have it in Alan Ayckbourn's career-defining comedy of spiralling misunderstandings, which has arrived on the West End 46 years after first hinting at the formidable talent of a dramatist who could make of many an "it" and "she" a robustly funny study in two couples in varying degrees of crisis. Far nervier than its study in middle-class mirth at first lets on, Relatively Speaking hands Felicity Kendal her giddiest stage assignment in years, and she is well served by a Lindsay...
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's Wells Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
People go to see Sylvie Guillem the way they used to go to Isadora Duncan or Anna Pavlova, to see a living legend, a game-changer. Guillem became one of dance’s handful of game-changers not when she was the controversially over-fashioned classical ballerina, nor even when she was the arrestingly individual dramatic ballerina in great British narrative ballets. It was when she left her past imagery behind her and threw herself up into the air qua Guillem, no longer young and classical, but...
Limbo, Southbank Centre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Circus is a broad church these days. It can be housed on the street, a grand proscenium stage and all points in between. For this latest incendiary...
Lubomyr Melnyk, Village Underground
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Imagine the rising and falling piano cadences of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Then plug the gaps between each note with any of those which may have...
Helen Chadwick, Richard Saltoun
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
It's 17 years since Helen Chadwick died without warning of heart failure at the tragically early age of 42 and nine years since the Barbican staged a...
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 |
The Great Gatsby
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Baz Luhrmann's Fitzgerald-spawned epic is busy and brash and big - but great? No, except for Leo |
Albert Herring, Opera North
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Britten in the round is a comic treat fit for a May Fair |
Knee Deep, Theatre Royal, Brighton
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Australian acrobatic circus troupe are truly thrilling |
These Shining Lives, Park Theatre
Thursday, 16 May 2013
London's new theatre makes a thrilling debut, albeit with a play a little less shiny |
The Pirates of Penzance, Scottish Opera, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Gilbert and Sullivan need a lighter director's touch in this musically strong new production |
Nina Conti, Soho Theatre
Thursday, 16 May 2013
The ventriloquist gives a fresh take on an old art form |
Tomorrow's World, ICA
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Good things happen when one of Air collaborates with New Young Pony Clubber |
Frankie, BBC One
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
New primetime district nurse dispenses a spoonful of sugar |
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