Earlier this week Eric Pfanner for The New York Times celebrated the BBC's coverage of the Olympics, suggesting- albeit only cautiously - that it was significantly superior to NBC's offering. This might be the year of more
I snuck away from London over the past two days on a kind of avant-garde Shakespeare mini-break. Last night I was in Stratford to see Troilus and Cressida, a co-pro between the Royal Shakespeare Company and more
Seven days later. A week on from Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony, and the great writing about that extraordinary vision keeps on coming. So I cannot resist offering links to a third group of ten views. Across the jump you more
Time, most definitely, to return to The Space, the Arts Council England/BBC digital 'pop-up' that, in its present form at least, will be with us for only another three months. Indeed, this is exactly the half-way point for more
The terrific filmmaker, our friend and occasional collaborator Paul Tickell contributed this wonderful response to Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony as a 'Comment' to one of our posts over the weekend. But it deserves a far wider readership than that, more
My post yesterday picking out ten great online pieces about the Olympics opening ceremony was this blog's most popular post for months and months. In part as a consequence of the remarkable interest that prompted, and also because more
If nothing else, we will be thinking and talking about the Olympics opening ceremony for many a moon. The detailed cultural analyses will follow in the weeks and months to come, but it's worth stressing that it was a lot more
Wednesday evening, and the digits on my mobile show that it is a little before midnight. After hours of relentless rain, this is a moment of respite. The wind has dropped too, and the sea is calm tonight. Editor Todd more
Grrrr! I know, I know that you should never respond to criticism, but today I can't resist a little rant. I am also by disposition a retiring individual not much given to trumpeting Illuminations' achievements. But take a look at more
To the Sage Gateshead for the last of just four performances of a new production of West Side Story. Directed and choreographed by Will Tuckett, it is a thrilling reworking of the Jerome Robbins original, appropriately more