The Importance of Being Earnest
Subtitled ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Red Lion
After cricket, there has been no sport about which there has been so much rubbish…
Poliuto at Glyndebourne
This year’s Glyndebourne season is unusually daring, with few of the big commercial bankers that…
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,…