Catching rabies from a corgi, living on a council estate, becoming an uncommon book addict, painting the town red, incognito, on VE Day, parachuting into East London on a date with James Bon…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:31PMSamuel Beckett recalled sinking into a "whirl of depression" while writing All That Fall. Audiences at this production - those, that is, who have managed to score a ticket for this short, so…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PMNever quite at the top of the Shakespearean canon, Much Ado About Nothing now seems more vital and adaptable than ever – and vastly darker than, say, Kenneth Branagh’s sun-kissed screen …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:12PMYou might not think that a drama about German parliamentary politics in the 1970s would be of great urgency today. But when Democracy, Michael Frayn's play about Willy Brandt and the Günter…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:06PMWho’d have thought that a long-gone turning point in the story of cinema would be the high-concept theme of the 2011/2012 season? Hard on the heels of The Artist, the lauded silent movie, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32PMThe great Ealing film comedies are often viewed as sacred cows, not matter that a small but significant number of them were decidedly sacrilegious. Indeed, one of the studio’s last product…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:38PMSo it's back, then. Garlanded with awards, lionised in London and on Broadway, Jerusalem returns to the West End for a limited run, in the same production and with many members of the e…
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