A Long Weekend In Palma
When one tells people that one is going to Mallorca for one’s holidays, the response…
Author Alex Larman
RSC’s The Tempest
It is something of a truism to state that Simon Russell Beale is unmissable in…
Ink
The frighteningly talented young playwright James Graham seems to be engaged in a competition with…
The Old Parsonage, Oxford
The clichés of Oxford as a city of dreaming spires, punting and ivy-clad college quads…
Brighton – A Culinary Odyssey
The city of Brighton is a strange contradiction in terms. On the one hand, it…
Galvin Bistrot De Luxe
‘Would you like to come and visit Galvin Bistrot?’ the email said. I’m not made…
Angels in America
‘Greetings, prophet. The great work has begun.’ Tony Kushner’s epic two-part drama, written in 1992,…
Forty Years On
‘Alan Bennett’ and ‘school’ are likely to be two topics that crop up in close…
Hawksmoor Borough
The cry went out round SE1. ‘Hawksmoor’s coming to our part of town’. Excitement could…
48 Hours in…Florence
Of all Italy’s major cities, Florence is the hardest to describe to the uninitiated. Rome…
One Warwick Park
‘The problem with Tunbridge Wells’, quoth the one who knows best, ‘is that it’s always…