The Playboy Opera House
Music critic Paul Guest visits The Royal Opera House to experience the latest performance to cause gasps of horror, shock and delight among West End audiences; the tragic tale of Anna Nicole Smith.
Browsing: The Culturist
The Phantom Tollbooth
In the first of a new film review series appraising underrated, esoteric and downright crazy…
Little Opera House on the Prairie
A breakout movement from the world of opera has emerged from the most unlikely of places; in the back room of a pub in North London. Music critic Paul Guest dishes the dirt on the hottest new opera this side of Covent Garden…
New Kids on the Block
Saturday night in the middle of January. Possibly one of least likely nights of the…
Romancing the Stone
BBC4 is fast becoming my headline TV channel. As a mine for all things cultural,…
Juan Diego Flórez and the Seven Encores
Seven encores. Seven. Encores. That is how much of a fuss this Peruvian born, rather…
Barbarella Forever
Jane Fonda as Barbarella is one of the enduring icons of 20th century cinema. As a young filmmaker in 1968, Paul Joyce was tasked with documenting the happenings on and around the set of that legendary psychedelic sci-fi romp…
Amphibians
As theatrical subject matter goes, competitive swimming isn’t a well-trodden path. Perhaps that’s the draw…
The Cats Meet Show
The legendary Delhi journalist, culture critic and volatile genius, Rahnam Pachry, ventures into trendy Dalston to visit a multi-platform arts event that has taken London’s cultural scene by the scruff of its neck; The Cats Meet Show…
Storytelling in Stepney
Any visitor to Stepney Green might scuttle past 109 Mile End Road and pay not…
A Festival of Classic Proportions
One doesn’t associate classical music with the traditional grass-and-mud rock festival. Surely the two sit at the opposite ends of the musical and cultural spectrum? Due to the efforts of some very clever people, that’s all about to change.
London’s Las Vegas
Natalie Cole and her seven-piece band arrived in London for her only UK performance this year, on a worldwide tour celebrating a lifetime in the music business that began at the age of six where she debuted on her father’s Christmas album.
What sort of venue could possibly be appropriate for the nine-time Grammy award-winning singer and daughter of the legendary Nat King Cole? We sent Lawrence to a roundabout at the southern end of Westminster Bridge to find out.