Stuart Houghton
Articles By Stuart Houghton
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Barneys, Books and Bust Ups, BBC Four review - the Booker Pr...
You had to keep your eyes skinned. Was that Iris Murdoch or AS Byatt, Kingsley Amis or John Banville, Margaret Atwood or Val McDermid – maybe,...
The Inheritance, Noël Coward Theatre review - tangled knot o...
Its roots are in an emotional truth: Matthew Lopez saw the film, then read the book, of Howards End when he was 15 and 11 years later...
Hallé, Gardner, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review – drama...
Edward Gardner was back amongst friends when he opened the Hallé’s Thursday series concerts. This was the place where he made his mark, as the...
Ciarán Dowd, Soho Theatre review - terrific spoof swordsman...
The Edinburgh Fringe does throw up some...
Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered review - too many issues
“When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” Mary Treat, the real-life 19th-...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Rockin' in the USA - Hot 100 Hits o...
One marker arrived on 1 August 1981, when MTV began...
Modern Couples, Barbican review - an absurdly ambitious surv...
What an ambitious project! Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde looks at over 40 couples or, in some cases,...
The Music of Harry Potter, CBSO, Seal, Symphony Hall, Birmin...
Imagine an orchestral concert made up exclusively of contemporary works by living composers: a programme in which every note was written within...