Poliuto at Glyndebourne
This year’s Glyndebourne season is unusually daring, with few of the big commercial bankers that…
Browsing: The Culturist
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
When someone mentions British 20th century sculpture, chances are it’s Barbara Hepworth’s curvaceous, pierced forms…
Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2015
Leading British artist and teacher, Michael Craig-Martin, is this year’s co-ordinator of the Royal Academy’s…
Garsington Opera: Death in Venice
Whilst Garsington Opera’s annual festival on the Wormsley Estate has been a key date in…
Heartbreak Hotel
The swinging 60s are dead. A dilapidated hotel waits at the end of a small…
Glyndebourne: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
I owe my appreciation of opera to the actor Tom Hulce. If the name doesn’t…
Get Thee to the Greek: Oresteia at The Almeida
For the rest of the year, the Almeida is staging a season of Classical Greek…
Jonathan Dove’s Flight at Opera Holland Park
There is an effect that Jonathan Dove’s Flight has that does something unlike anything one…
The Beaux’ Stratagem
When the worst thing about a play is the name – and, let’s be fair,…
Hay Fever
Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, written when the playwright was just twenty-five and first performed in…
Temple
St Paul’s Cathedral, in all its glory, has stood tall through thick and thin, including…
High Society
As the last show of Kevin Spacey’s 11 year tenure as Artistic Director of The…