Category: 5. Entertainment

Published on
04/12/2025 – 10:42 GMT+1

Oh, the Eurovision. One would say it’s a celebration of music that unites all of Europe. And, for…

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What to make of The Abandons, a western so bizarrely camp and overblown that it ends up being utterly mesmerising, almost…

In the expensive hush of a hotel bar over the road from the Royal Ballet and Opera in Covent Garden, London, Matthew Ball asks for a mint tea. I’m having a white wine; Ball’s body is clearly more of a temple than mine, although you don’t…

He’s the middle-manager who talks as if he’s the CEO, a beacon of workplace inclusivity in his own head but a bigoted chauvinist as soon as he opens his mouth. And listening to him creates a mix of familiarity and embarrassment-by-proxy that…

In 2010, I was preparing to direct Anna Karenina and told the producer, Tim Bevan, that if anyone should adapt Tolstoy’s novel, it should be Stoppard. Surprisingly – because he was already a hero – Tom agreed to meet.

I went to his apartment…