Sunday: a blog makeover

8th June 2014

Although there is no sign of this here, I have been thinking a lot about a new direction for this blog. I have remarkably downtime at the moment and I'm all too aware that I am not posting regularly. The more

Live-blogging The Duchess of Malfi

25th May 2014

22:26: Hmmm. Really interesting to see, but definitely problematic. Final production credit is Globe on Screen in association with BBC Arts. 22:23: I didn't think this closing worked in the theatre, and the broadcast hasn't changed my mind. 22:22: At two and more

Lord K

21st May 2014

Tate Britain this week has opened the exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, which runs until 10 August. There is no sense that I can be impartial about the show, given that I contributed by curating the television more

Catching up…

19th May 2014

It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure more

‘Let wonder seem familiar’

8th April 2014

There's something a bit superfluous and a bit naive and a bit daft about this post. But after last night and this afternoon I just want to express how much at present I love the theatre. Of course I am more

Changes

6th April 2014

To Clapham Picturehouse for Saturday night's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Puccini's La bohème. And "live" it most certainly was, for only around five hours earlier soprano Kristine Opolais replaced flu-stricken Anita Hartig in the main role more