Stranger Sings
The Southwark Playhouse has something of a track record when it comes to musicals –…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Motive and the Cue
Put an exacting, classical theatre impresario in a room with an irascible firebrand film star,…
Elisabeth Frink: A View From Within
Dame Elisabeth Frink, one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, and arguably its greatest female…
The Christmas Concert at Glyndebourne
It might not be the best time of year for a picnic but Glyndebourne is…
The Wobble Club
Auteur filmmaker, scriptwriter and Arb contributor Simon Rumley’s first novel is at times an unsettling…
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec at the RA
Colour is the first impression that hits the senses on entering the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries…
Murder in the Lady Chapel
Hannah Weybridge is a woman dogged by trouble. As a freelance journalist and single mother,…
Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle
As I started writing this review there was a minor storm in a teacup over…
Marina Abramović at The Royal Academy
Marina Abramović (Hon RA), the Belgrade-born artist, sculptor and film-maker has made performance art her…
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
The “mother of performance art” Marina Abramovic has been obsessed with Maria Callas for many…
Remembrances of War: An Exhibition by Paul Joyce
My first thoughts on beginning the series were to paint exactly what I remembered, but…
La Traviata at The Coliseum
So, just for complete disclosure here, Traviata was the first opera I ever saw, and…