The Way I See It
The shipyard painter, political activist and razor-sharp cartoonist Bob Starrett has just written a new book The Way I See It on his eventful life and times. Below we reprint one of his stories and review an essential read
On the stage
Shall We Dance
Monday 10 August 2009
Adam Cooper, former premier dancer at Covent Garden, gained a whole new audience when he played the leading role in Matthew Bourne's all-male Swan Lake.
Carmen
Wednesday 27 May 2009
New take of old favourite is more thoughtful than passionate
Pictures From An Exhibition
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Mussorgsky's most famous work takes a surreal twist
Peter Grimes
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Britten's most famous work brought to life at the Coliseum
Barber Of Seville
Wednesday 13 May 2009
OPERAS have long reeked of a bourgeois stuffiness, especially in the minds of the younger generation. And not without reason.
Paradise Moscow
Thursday 23 April 2009
The operetta about life on a Soviet housing estate that will blow you away
Salome
Wednesday 11 March 2009
HOW do you solve a problem like Salome?
Ayckbourn's darker side
Wednesday 04 March 2009
ALAN Ayckbourn has written more plays than Shakespeare.
Show-stopping sights
Wednesday 04 March 2009
ON A cold winter's evening, the stage setting of Donizetti's The Elixir Of Love bathes the audience at Cardiff's Millennium Centre in the warmth of sunny Italy.