Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
@sohoplace, LondonA new musical built around the true story of a promising young rugby player paralysed in a teenage accident is movingly full of the joy of being aliveTheatreland’s newest venue, @sohoplace, finding its feet after only four shows to...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
Claims related to seven-year period are detailed in Times and Channel 4 investigation after actor had already denied allegations Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse over a seven-year period at the height of his...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
(Mack Avenue)A jazz-classical portrait of the 12 star signs, the American jazz great’s suite finds its ideal realisation in Diehl and co’s lovingly performed renditionJazz history does not hear Mary Lou Williams’s name often enough, yet she was a pri...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
The award-winning theatre director on being stopped in the street to talk about his tattoos, the influence of the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the play he’d love to directBorn in 1980 in Poole, Dorset, theatre director Jamie Lloyd founded the Jami...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
With smart casting and suitably murky Venice setting, the director improves on last year’s Death on the Nile, though his moustache-fondling Poirot remains the sameThe contrast between Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot adventure, the enjoyably spooky my...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
After the loss of her best friend, the Cameroonian-American singer-songwriter finds consolation and catharsis on the dancefloorThree albums into her career, Vagabon has found a radical new voice. The Cameroon-born, US-based singer-songwriter, real na...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
O2 Victoria Warehouse, ManchesterAudacious, occasionally baffling stagecraft and much emotion act in tandem in a daring set in which the Canadian singer-songwriter goes rogueLeslie Feist is scrabbling around on the concrete floor, attempting to bury...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
The OG lineup of Mutya, Keisha and Siobhán returned a decade ago as MKS, but were thwarted by industry shenanigans. Now they’re back, with the Sugababes name under their control, and won’t let anything – or anyone – stand in their wayMutya Buena – th...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
The artist, best-known for elaborate wire sculptures, has a new exhibition at the Whitney highlighting lesser-known drawings“Drawing, always, was the through line.” So concludes Whitney curator Kim Conaty in her introductory essay to the catalogue fo...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years agoToo many people have been dying lately,” Julian Barnes reflects...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
This dazzling fragmentary history of a small patch of woodland in New England travels to the limits of what the novel can doAmerican novelist and doctor Daniel Mason is already well known for his wonderfully atmospheric historical novels The Piano Tu...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
This sitcom about two friends who phone chat their way through insomnia is an absolute delight. Its leads’ chemistry is impossibly fizzy – you’ll root for them like never beforeAll right, I’m going to say something that, realistically, is going to ru...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
A new exhibition at the Academy of Motion Pictures celebrates the auteur - and Waters is taking the elevation in strideFor a man who made his name with gleefully hilarious guerrilla films populated by drag queens, provocateurs, foot fetishists, misgu...
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Who will be paired up in the launch show? Plus: the musicians who died at 27. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 7 months ago
The hit Netflix show’s last season is its weightiest yet. Its creator talks about her ‘grief’ at saying goodbye, fighting anti-trans hate – and why this season keeps her up at nightThis month brings the release of the fourth and final season of Sex E...