Stellar line-up of writers from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka via Stewart Lee, Billy Bragg and Carol Ann Duffy, create epic launch for the new Bush Theatre... more
The approach to storytelling is simple yet subtle, and the result is a clever, witty and reassuringly warm family show from Beasts and Beauties... more
Gok Wan is riding high - but its public school piranhas Trinny and Susannah whose judgments on what not to wear are needed on the party circuit... more
Latest: Special memorial service at Westminster Abbey as millions of people across Britain and Europe observed two-minute Armistice Day silence... more
The demise of the South Bank Show and the retreat of 69-year-old Melvyn Bragg from ITV are being treated in some quarters as some kind of cultural calamity. Almost entirely mistakenly, I think... more
With its token £5,750-a-year salary and case of wine for your trouble, our Poet Laureateship has long been what the outgoing laureate Andrew Motion has affectionately termed an "honorary joke"... more
In some ways, Andrew Motion has been the perfect Poet Laureate. As a poet, Motion has never shown the tiniest inkling of talent at any point in his career - and this lucky chance has freed him to perform the public duties of the laureateship without anybody worrying that he is betraying his genius... more
Carol Ann Duffy's failure to offer a cogent reason for rewriting Casanova as a woman, leaves the project looking like little more than an attention-grabbing gimmick.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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