Arts ahead: July 19 2018 Photography: New Brighton Revisited, Liverpool Biennial, Music: HebCelt festival, Stornoway, Theatre: The Prisoner, Edinburgh, Music Theatre: Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage, London
Arts | Thursday 19th Jul 2018 Science Fiction With Mat Coward The perils of involuntary re-entries, the Afterlife, interplanetary clergy and ‘fat fantasy’
Thursday 19th Jul 2018 Theatre Review Pitted against injustice PAUL FOLEY sees an inspiring play by Maxine Peake on the women who battled against the destruction of mining communities in 1984-85 and after
Thursday 19th Jul 2018 Theatre Review There's good in everything about this As You Like It As You Like ItRegents Park Open Air Theatre, London
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Music Review Oldies still goldies PETER MASON sees PP Arnold and Mavis Staples deliver blistering sets at the Cornbury Festival
Thursday 19th Jul 2018 Book Review Flawed but fascinating PAUL SIMON recommends a biography of the uncompromising 19th-century French revolutionary Emmanuel Barthelemy
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Picket Lines High & Whitey’s writing ’bout the moon (somewhat after Gil Scott Heron) that Trump just jailed some child of Godthe high & whitey write about the moonthe kid is crying lightning rods
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Jazz albums with Chris Searle Arkestra doffs hat to Dolphy in magisterial live sessions Primitive Arkestra LiveDolphy's Hat(SLAM)
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Theatre Review Taking issue with prejudice KATHERINE M GRAHAM sees a challenging take on white middle-class perspectives
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Theatre Review Monster treat for children of all ages SIMON PARSONS sees an excellent stage version of a classic book
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Theatre Review A suspension of disbelief too far PETER MASON sees a laudably gender-blind production of Hamlet marred by unconvincing performances
Tuesday 17th Jul 2018 Theatre Review Crunch time LYNNE WALSH sees the working class fight back in a spot-on production from Flesh and Bone
