The Tempest is perhaps best understood as a final conjuring by Shakespeare, a kind of melancholic farewell to the island of ...

VIRGINIA Gay’s gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, an irreverent rom-com, is a hoot if a little rough around the edges. Cyrano (Gay), a queer woman, has a charming way ...

MATTHEW Bourne’s iconic 1995 production of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake helped cement his career. Almost 30 years later, his version continues to delight audiences. Inspired by German and Russian ...

CHRISTMAS traditions start somewhere – whether it’s the Victorians’ idea of sending each other cards, or the Germanic concept of decorating a pine tree, what feels like timeless practices have their ...

SET in Alabama, Lillian Hellman’s 1939 classic The Little Foxes is a tale of greed and ambition. Regina (Anne-Marie Duff) dreams of escaping a stultifying life with her sick husband Horace (John Light ...

NOT sure if you saw all of Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Everton at the weekend, but the cliché that they could have played all night and not scored was probably applicable. The strategy seems to have been ...

IN recent weeks this column has been ambushed by Messiahs – it’s a seasonal hazard – but one more you need to know about, being arguably the prize example, is the performance by Polyphony with the Age ...

THERE is little secret what most Arsenal fans want this Christmas, with a world-class striker yet again at the top of their wishlist. Gooners have been crying out for a formidable forward for well ...

NAKED fear is a cruel mistress. Your pulse rate quickens, your head swims, your palms begin to sweat, your pupils dilate and the fight-or-flight mechanism starts to kick in – let’s face it, MR James ...

THE final round of fixtures of 2024 in the Women’s Super League fell in Arsenal’s favour at the weekend as they closed the gap on their title rivals. Alessia Russo scored for the fifth league game in ...

COMMENT: Taxing the super-profitable is not anti-business. A well-structured tax on mega-corporations, tied directly to local councils for housing repairs, could transform lives ‘Ordinary people pay ...