Shelagh Delaney’s unflinching debut – which she wrote when she was still in her teens – was a “real jolt to the system” when it premiered at The Theatre Royal, Stratford, in 1958, said Chris Bartlett in The Stage. It tells the story of Jo, a white teenager from SalfordContinue Reading
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Sean “Diddy” Combs casts a long shadow over the history of hip hop. One of the industry’s first moguls, his work as anContinue Reading
It’s becoming a familiar theme in TV dramas – the London detectives who move to quiet provincial towns but find themselves yearning for “the big cases and exciting days of old”. “Be careful what you wish for!” said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian by way of advice to these fictionalContinue Reading
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Taylor Swift’s father will not be charged for allegedly punching a photographer in Sydney, Australian police have said. Photographer Ben McDonald, 51, toldContinue Reading
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Scarlett Johansson is negotiating a deal to play the lead role in a forthcoming reboot of Jurassic Park, according to reports. If she took onContinue Reading
Where do you go if you are not at school, work or home? For some, the answer is, well, nowhere. With the growing cost of living, the prevalence of social media and the residual social-distancing mentality from the pandemic years, third places, or locations designed for socialization, have largely disappeared.Continue Reading
For a movie that takes painstaking care to recreate the vibe and aesthetics of 1970s television, the firestorm engulfing the newly released indie horror film “Late Night with the Devil” is a thoroughly modern one. Co-written and directed by brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes, the film’s depiction of a talkContinue Reading
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sir Antony Gormley has issued a withering condemnation of the UK government’s attitude towards art – warning that any interference into an artist’sContinue Reading
Miami’s Ultra festival was cut short due to adverse weather conditions on Friday (22 March), however, attendees made the most of the muddy conditions while they still could. Festival-goers were filmed rolling around in mud and dancing in the rain to their favourite DJs, despite flash flooding and hurricane warningsContinue Reading
The southeastern province of Puglia “feels a world away from the more familiar landscapes of central Italy”. Its historic buildings are whitewashed, for instance, a tendency perhaps dating from its centuries under Greek-Byzantine rule. But I went in search of a different aspect of its heritage, said William Dalrymple inContinue Reading
