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Summerfolk at the National Theatre | Theatre review
In the summer of 1905, somewhere in the Russian countryside, a cluster of families has decamped to their dachas (summer cottages), hauling along grievances, adulterous impulses, and thwarted...
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Mika at Wembley Arena | Live review
He makes his entrance sealed inside a massive suspended wheel, spinning like a hamster. The image is absurd and faintly Chaplinesque, but before you can decide what to make of it, the voice arrives....
View Article“Wuthering Heights”| Movie review
A man gasps for air. He moans, grunts. Is he pleasuring himself? Gotcha! He is being hanged in the village square. And yes, he has an erection. This spectacle sends the townspeople into a kind of...
View ArticleOh. What. Fun. | Movie review
The pantheon of unavoidable Christmas films feels almost impossible to penetrate. The classics of the season, from Love Actually to The Holiday to It’s a Wonderful Life, have so firmly lodged...
View ArticleMUBI presents Let’s Eat! Food and Film: “A true feast for the eyes and the...
Is there any pairing more delightful than a good meal alongside a good film? I doubt it, particularly after spending last Thursday inside Selfridges’ cinema, where the streaming platform MUBI presented...
View ArticleWicked: For Good | Movie review
You are either a musical theatre kid or you are not. The Wicked franchise has set out to court both tribes: the people who cry when they hear Defying Gravity, and the people who do not care for...
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Zaho de Sagazan at the London Palladium | Live review
If you want a good, character-driven love song, look to the French. From Édith Piaf to Gainsbourg and Brel, the tradition of la chanson française has long offered melodies as beautiful as the words...
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The Unbelievers at the Royal Court Theatre | Theatre review
The disappearance of a child grips the collective mind in a way few other tragedies can. It is both unimaginable and inescapable, too vast to comprehend. Few cases have haunted the public quite like...
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The Land of the Living at the National Theatre | Theatre review
“All my life, all your life, I’ve struggled with this: was what I did wrong?” These words in The Land of the Living carry the weight of the entire evening. The play circles, obsessively and...
View ArticleBlitz: The club that shaped the 80s at the Design Museum | Exhibition review
Who remembers Blitz, the nightclub that burned brightly and briefly in Covent Garden between 1979 and 1980? Although it lasted only 18 months, Blitz became the crucible of an entire aesthetic, a place...
View ArticleMarie Antoinette Style at the V&A | Exhibition review
Marie Antoinette is a name already freighted with imagery: frothing lace and impossibly poufed silk, wigs towering like architectural feats, the improbable sight of a queen playing shepherdess among...
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BBC Proms 2025: The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall | Live...
The Last Night of the Proms has long been cast as the Glastonbury of the classical set. Tickets are hard to come by; people ballot, raffle, plead, all for the privilege of waving flags and raising...
View ArticleMona Hatoum Encounters: Giacometti at the Barbican | Exhibition review
Who doesn’t know the spindly figures of Giacometti? The bronze man with the impossibly long nose, the anonymous Walking Man, a shadow of a soul merely passing by. Giacometti is one of those artists who...
View ArticleMillet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery | Exhibition review
There’s something comforting about a small exhibition. Those sprawling, seemingly endless shows can feel daunting, compelling visitors to adopt the hurried pace of supermarket shoppers. This writer...
View ArticleInter Alia at the National Theatre | Theatre review
This year has felt like a cultural reckoning, confronting us with the realities of a fractured youth. Parents, educators and policymakers have found themselves anxiously debating the fate of a...
View ArticleBBC Proms 2025: The Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy | Live...
When Samara Joy announced that she would be appearing at the Proms with a programme billed as a tribute to The Great American Songbook and Beyond, one could be forgiven for anticipating a fairly...
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The Estate at the National Theatre | Theatre review
Inheritance, with its tangled webs of loyalty, betrayal, greed and heartbreak, has long been irresistible to dramatists. From Chekhov’s languid demise of aristocracy in The Cherry Orchard to...
View ArticleAbstract Erotic at the Courtauld | Exhibition review
In 1966, the critic and curator Lucy Lippard staged her first exhibition, a modest affair at the Fischbach Gallery on Madison Avenue, gathering together a group of young artists experimenting with the...
View ArticleEdward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain | Exhibition review
Tate Britain’s decision to pair Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun in a dual exhibition is inspired, if improbable. The connection isn’t immediately obvious, but it’s there: both were born in the early...
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Medea at the Coronet Theatre | Theatre review
The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill feels less like a venue and more like a well-kept secret. Its bar, lined with books, paintings, flickering candles and an old piano, invites you to linger. The...
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