Performing Arts
REVIEW: Sweeney Todd
REVIEW: Stephen Sondheim's music theatre masterwork is adapted with equal mastery and a gothic flourish to the big screen by…
Bring back the throwing of rotten fruit
Elizabethan audiences would reward good acting by tossing coins up to the performers at the end of a play: bending…
Career profile: Dr Haze, Circus of Horrors
Previously a rock'n’ roll frontman, Doctor Haze set up the Circus of Horrors in its current form following a chance…
REVIEW: Doubt: A Parable, Tricycle Theatre
REVIEW: "For a small off West End theatre, the Tricycle has a truly fabulous reputation. But I’d never understood what…
REVIEW: The History Boys, Wyndham’s Theatre
REVIEW: There are some things in life that everybody likes: Kylie Minogue, toast, getting a new Ipod, the National Theatre’s…
REVIEW: Masque of the Red Death, Punchdrunk, BAC
REVIEW: "I’ve been bowled over by theatre. Literally. It was last Thursday, but I still have the bruises to prove…
Career profile: Saskia Gavin, textile artist
Saskia Gavin runs the Mixing Fibres textile studio in Edinburgh’s Drill Hall for budding textile enthusiasts and converts who want…
Believing in the music dream
Serge Belongie, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San…
REVIEW: An Ideal Husband, Royal Exchange, Manchester
REVIEW: With former soap stars again dominating the majority of Christmas shows in the Greater Manchester area, Braham Murray’s elegant…
REVIEW: Othello, Donmar Warehouse
REVIEW: With a superstar cast, Othello at the Donmar Warehouse sold out months in advance. So are Ewan McGregor and…