Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pity the A-level English student: for them the “rarely seen masterpieces” that creep onto the curriculum and into the theatres. Judging from the frequently giggling reaction of the audie…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:15PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
To revive a long-defunct play is dicing with death for a touring theatre company - was the play ahead of its time, or was it not good enough in any time? W Somerset Maugham was a commercial …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Zaha Hadid, visionary architect of the London Olympics Aquatic Centre, becomes a Dame and three new knights of the arts are created in the Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours announced this mor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:38PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
David Cameron could hardly wish for a more apt musical to pep up the people’s spirits than Irving Berlin’s Top Hat, with its wheedling entreaties about the advantages of being caught in …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:44PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
We’ve seen a few American film and TV actresses grace the West End stage with surprising potency, but no one surely will surpass Laurie Metcalf for profound emotional truth-telling in Euge…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:37PMThursday, March 1, 2012
“The lady from the sea” is what a remote Norwegian fjord town calls the young second wife of its good doctor, an elusive woman who seems to walk in the footsteps of the ghost of her well…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:31PMFriday, February 24, 2012
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is the misleading, joky title of a play about Shakespeare in his ignoble last years, unable to write further, isolated from his beloved London, and hemmed in…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:45PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
When a young Charles Dickens visited New York in 1842 with his wife, he strolled down Broadway, happened upon an unusual dance and naturally checked out theatreland. As his bicentenary is ce…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
The National Theatre’s spring headlines are the return of Antony Sher in a new play about a Hollywood film director’s past and a third work by the controversial physical theatre company …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMMonday, January 9, 2012
London's Barbican Centre is 30 this year, and with a special Olympic-sized subsidy boost as the world's eyes turn to the British capital this summer, it aims to be be as lovely inside as it …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Port Talbot’s staging of The Passion with Michael Sheen won the highest accolade at the Theatre Management Association Awards yesterday, which honour the best of work touring Britain beyon…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00AMSunday, September 4, 2011
On 9 September theartsdesk, Britain's first professional arts journalism site, will be two years old. To celebrate we’re holding a live debate with four leading performers during the Kings…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:59AM 
