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To Shakespeare's Globe - or at least to the Sackler Studios just round the corner - for a wonderfully jolly staged reading on Sunday of Philip Massinger's comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Probably more
To Shakespeare's Globe - or at least to the Sackler Studios just round the corner - for a wonderfully jolly staged reading on Sunday of Philip Massinger's comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Probably more
Today we film for Sky Arts the first of four (and, we hope, more) Rosenblatt Recitals from Wigmore Hall. The American bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee, accompanied by painist Iain Burnside, is giving more
A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe more
I have to admit to squeezing in another late summer cultural mini-break (see here for my Shakespeare trip last month). Last week I was in the French town of Arles for a couple of nights, catching the end more
You will have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past two months. I have been planning posts, writing parts of them in my head, even jotting down drafts. There is one that I want to offer more
To the London Olympics and the York Mystery Plays on the same evening, although both only virtually. I spent Saturday night somewhere between 2012 and the medieval world, as I watched athletics and diving on the BBC and Pilot Theatre's more
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