Sunday, May 15, 2011
American director promises 'a good romp and a cracking yarn' in film version of The Crooked HouseNeil LaBute has carved a career from seriously disturbing plays and films " In the Company of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
More than 200 organisations lose support on 'agonising' day of 15% cuts to the arts " but those who win, win bigLive blog - culture cutsIt is a day of radically mixed fortunes for the arts i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2011
Sir Richard Eyre, Tony Hall and Jude Kelly warn of lasting damage likely to result from curtailed government spendingLeading figures from the arts have written to the prime minister asking h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Icelandic singer announces a new multimedia project and three-week residency while Albarn debuts a new work about an Elizabethan scientistThe great Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2011
David Mitchell's new opera, Guardian hack Tom Service's new career, and the Theatre Uncut guide to making drama out of a crisisA novel approach to opera There's a school of thought that says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Alice leads the end-of-an-era productions, judging the Art Fund Museums prize, and the Forest Fringe's search for a new homeEnd of an era for blockbuster stage spectaclesWhat an incredible f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2011
Exhibition honours works of Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark and Trisha Brown on the roofs of 1970s ManhattanThe city is in the midst of a recession. Public services have been ground down…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I'm moving house " and staring my habit of amassing theatre, opera and concert programmes in the faceThere's nothing like moving house to induce a sense of proper self-loathing about the acq…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Simon Russell Beale goes on pointe, a plea to concert-goers and former culture secretary Lord Smith talks cutsSimon Russell Beale debuts with the Royal BalletThe world awaits the arrival of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The German chancellor turns out for Pina, a hoodie with a clarinet, and Berlin's art oasisMerkel dons 3D glasses for Wim Wenders's PinaOn Sunday night, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:29PM[SHARE]Monday, February 14, 2011
With a judicious use of 3D, Wenders does much to bring immediacy and depth to Pina Bausch's glorious choreographyIt's the film I'd been most looking forward to; in fact it was the film that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 13, 2011
First 3D arthouse film may inspire further experiments from the world of performing artsUntil now, the 3D revolution has embraced large-scale action films such as Avatar, and children's anim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 8, 2011
From gambling dancers to X-rated opera, here are this week's top storiesWhat's ahead at the State of the Arts conferenceThere will be plenty to discuss tomorrow at the State of the Arts conf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Figgis's opera gets knifed at a time when applications for arts funding are at a crucial pointNo one wants to field a stinker, particularly when the applications for funding by Arts Council …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Artistic director Nicholas Hytner says only response to expected funding cuts is to be 'bullish in our programming' A musical by the singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new drama by Mike Leigh an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Ballet wars part two: the dance world is revving up in support of Ashley Page at Scottish Ballet, who is departing as artistic director of the company "with great sadness and regre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40PM[SHARE]You may think the ballet world is a gentle, loving place, full of peace and joy, but no, you are wrong, quite wrong. Over in New York City, full-volume ballet wars have broken out over a rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The newly revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is full of surprises, not least a certain inviting chair that is roving around the theatre's public spaces. When I sat on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:35PM[SHARE]Can one think of a more pleasing place than the Common Guild, in Glasgow, currently showing a small and exquisite exhibition of the recent work of Tacita Dean? Having trudged through a snowy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25PM[SHARE]So Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, is to be the chair of the Man Booker prize. Perhaps it's an elaborate plan to ensure total discretion on the part of the judges " Moscow rules an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The £112m revamp to the Royal Shakspeare Theatre and Swan in Stratford herald new artistic adventures for the RSCSo, after camping in the temporary Courtyard Theatre, the RSC is to move b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Theatre which reopens with Macbeth next year gets actors' approval A new chapter dawns tomorrow in the 49-year history of the Royal Shakespeare Company as its Stratford-upon-Avon theatre fli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Royal Opera House is about to open a new production workshop in Purfleet, EssexA little piece I did on the new production workshop for the Royal Opera House, near the Thames in Purfleet,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 16, 2010
So the Cottesloe, the smallest of the three theatres at the National, is to be renamed in honour of Lloyd Dorfman, the chairman of Travelex, who has donated £10m to the theatre. The Eton-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:35PM[SHARE]Unlikely as it may seem, the Royal Opera House is always eager to snatch a few extra audience members from The X Factor " and has now produced an extraordinary viral marketing campaign. Call…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25PM[SHARE] 
