5 x 5 No. 4: Todd’s list
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when it will be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five cultural highlights more
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when it will be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five cultural highlights more
WIN a special limited edition DVD of MUSE OF FIRE signed by Judi Dench, Tom Hiddleston and Ian McKellen MUSE OF FIRE is an epic road-trip buddy movie made by actors Dan Poole and Giles Terera that will change the way more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • State of Terror: innovative interactive report from veteran BBC journalist Peter Taylor about the financing of ISIS. • Martha Graham - more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • The A-Z of Carl Dreyer: terrific anthology from Matthew Thrift at BFI about the demanding work of the great Danish director, including more
Each day I try to highlight just three things. Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The River - a new authenticity: a very fine essay by Ian Christie for Criterion on Jean Renoir's more
• The Last Hours of Laura K: an interactive online murder mystery from the Writersroom at the BBC; background here - well worth exploring. • Stranger than fiction: Honour Bayes for The Space writes about more
Here's a piece I wrote for the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends about the forthcoming cinema broadcasts of the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won on, respectively 11 February and 4 March. Picturehouse Recommends more
In the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is a truly splendid Royal Shakespeare Company production of Thomas Dekker's 1599 play The Shoemaker's Holiday. Director Phillip Breen, a spirited cast led by David Troughton and the RSC's costume department have more
Let's get this on the table at the top: we believe our 5-disc box-set of the 1960 BBC Television series An Age of Kings, which adapts all eight of Shakespeare's great History plays, would make an excellent Christmas gift. You can more
Tonight's NT Live broadcast of DV8 Physical Theatre's John was not exactly business as usual. Absent was a live introduction by the bubbly Emma Freud. Instead we were treated to a video message from a serious-looking Nick Hytner telling more