Damien Hirst. Merely uttering the words evokes a controversial debate in and out of the art world. Genius? Taking the piss? Mad? Emperor’s-new-clothes-style trickster? All …
Josie Rourke begins her stint as artistic director at the Donmar Warehouse with late Restoration comedy from 1706, The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar. The set is simple, …
Jon Richardson is very much a comedian who you may have heard of, but who is not yet an A-Lister on the level of the …
Paul Merton, series regular and sometime host of Have I Got News For You is back on the road in his first comedy tour “this …
Reviving an old classic is always difficult, and a musical with a plot firmly set in the beliefs of a society totally different to today …
Alex Preston’s debut novel is by no means autobiographical, though it is a reflection of the insights he gained when working in the city of …
The stage adaptation of Michael Morpugo’s ‘War Horse’ is captivating and poignant, bringing the reality of the First World War to London’s National Theatre.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) are two names which one might not expect to see in the same sentence. While both are visionaries …
‘I tried to focus on the bits I felt I hadn’t seen in productions before – the play’s examination of dreams, of time, of coincidence …
Carol Ann Duffy is well known to our generation as the woman who aided the national boredom that was GCSE poetry. For those of us …
Solent University student Alec Dent won last night’s Southampton Chortle Student Comedian Competition heat held at Glen Bar in the Glen Eyre student halls of …
Noel Fielding obviously wields an interesting mind in the way he can weave quirky characters and turn a phrase. His appearances on Never Mind The …
It is ironic that prior to the BBC iPlayer recording of the ‘Wheelchair’ episode of the second series of Radio 4′s Richard Herring’s Objective runs …
Pocket G&S wow in their latest performance, as Kirsty Hough discovers
Bill Bailey points out during the beginning of Dandelion Mind that he was recently voted the seventh most intelligent person on TV. In a poll …
