Review at a glance Wow. Rebecca Frecknall’s new revival of Kander and Ebb’s musical set in interwar Berlin is a stunning, breathlessly exciting theatrical happening. It feels loyal to the 1966 original yet astonishingly contemporary, and properly immersive. The Playhouse Theatre has been reconfigured by the designer Tom Scutt asContinue Reading
One of the capital’s biggest Christmas concerts is gearing up for its return this weekend. The two-night extravaganza – officially dubbed Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball with Barclaycard – will take over London’s largest arena for two nights during the festive period, with some of the biggest musicians on the planetContinue Reading
Review at a glance 17 years since Sex and The City’s last episode, and 11 since the car-crash sequel film, three out of four of the Manhattan, boy and Cosmo-obsessed women are back. The first two 30 minute episodes, released today, are awkward, unnatural and at points truly, wincingly, painful.Continue Reading
The Exmouth Museum is holding its Christmas Coffee and Cakes morning on Thursday 16 December 2021 from 10.30 onwards at the Axis Centre, Market Street, Exmouth, EX8 1HP (just by Nat West Bank). Come along and enjoy coffee, a choice of hot drinks, mince pies and home made cakes; meetContinue Reading
T ickets to some of London’s biggest theatre shows will be on offer at a discounted price in the new year as part of an effort to attract visitors back to the West End. On Tuesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan joined photographer Rankin and stars of West End showsContinue Reading
Review at a glance “ What I miss the most” provided not only the title of Jake Heggie’s new song cycle, given its UK premiere at this Barbican concert, but also the theme of the recital by fellow-American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton with Heggie at the piano. As the two performersContinue Reading
S uccession’s central theme is toxic family dysfunction, and the penultimate episode of the third season was basically a walking Philip Larkin poem. Nihilistic pillow talk, unsolicited dick pics, ‘cry for help’ haircuts: the Roy siblings wore their emotional neglect on their sleeves. Naturally, the backdrop for this was theirContinue Reading
Jeremy Irons is fascinated by dysfunctional dynasties. He is telling me about his new film, Ridley Scott’s opulent two-and-a half hour long House of Gucci, in which he plays the dapper patriarch Rodolfo Gucci, and its parallels with contemporary clans in turmoil. “Here we are, a family that has everythingContinue Reading
I n June 2014, Susan and Christopher Edwards were found guilty of murdering Susan’s parents, William and Patricia Wycherley, having shot them at their home in Mansfield over the May Bank Holiday weekend of 1998, then buried them in the garden. Days after the murder, they opened a joint bankContinue Reading
THE CHARLATANS are currently on their (Covid) delayed 30th Anniversary tour and recently released a 6 vinyl LP Box Set to celebrate the anniversary. ‘A Head Full Of Ideas’ is a five album, and exclusive 7”, career-spanning box set that sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one ofContinue Reading
