Kimberly Akimbo at Hampstead Theatre
“It’s a play about a girl living, not a girl dying” says writer David Lindsay-Abaire…
Browsing: The Culturist
Lady in Blue Arrives on the Fourth Plinth
Trafalgar Square’s rotating art experiment welcomes its sixteenth commission this month, as Tschabalala Self’s technicolour…
Holy Fool at Park Theatre
It’s a warm, muggy evening in early September. The air pressure feels oppressive, and as…
Abigail’s Party
Gin, Demis Roussos and simmering marital despair; Mike Leigh’s seminal suburban satire gets a magnetic…
Swagger and Scandal: Whistler at Tate Britain
Litigious, self-mythologising and never knowingly underdressed, James Abbott McNeill Whistler cuts a singular figure among…
Gauguin and Polynesia
A meticulously researched biography cuts through decades of controversy to ask what Gauguin’s paintings actually…
A Summer Miscellany
Whether you’re reading poolside, on a delayed train, or hiding from the heat with the…
Richard Dadd: A Much-Respected Murderer
Feted as a Royal Academy prodigy, then locked away for stabbing his own father to…
Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne
Richard Strauss’ ‘opera within an opera’ Ariadne auf Naxos, has at its heart an audacious reconciliation…
M.C.Escher: The Exhibition
At Somerset House in London, a landmark show traces how a shy Dutch graphic artist,…
Georgia State Ballet’s Swan Lake
For a traditional, lavishly staged version of the best-loved of classical ballets, look no further…