Charlie Swinbourne

Articles By Charlie Swinbourne

Wednesday, 23 May 2012 Read more...

A gorgeous song exists in search of a show to match over at Bagdad Café, the 1987 film that gave the world the...

King Arthur, as every schoolgirl knows, never actually existed, so it made perfect sense that the Gabrieli Consort’s Worcester Cathedral...

Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. It seemed the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of...

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Now that the summer opera-house companies have pulled off staged triumphs...

Scottish singer-songwriter Dorothy Allison pretty much defines cool. Her band One Dove was the first to snare Andrew Weatherall as producer after...

It’s the trivia question no one ever thought to ask: where was the only Tennessee Williams play premiered outside America first performed? The...

Mieko Kawakami sits firmly amongst the Japanese literati for her...

ITV’s new detective mystery, Professor T, is an...