The production may be too sepia-toned, and the episodic storytelling will strike some as very spare, but Driving Miss Daisy is a graceful and quietly potent drama... more
Jonathan Harvey examines the experiences of gay men in Britain over nearly 50 years, moving between the present and a past that seems archaic and raw in Canary.... more
Philip Pullman is getting hate mail from Christians, apparently, warning that the royalty on his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, will be “eternal damnation"... more
Imagine a society at a London university invites well-known racists to address its members. One student then attempts a copy of David Copeland’s nail-bombing spree. Now substitute "white supremacist" for "Islamic fanaticist" and you have what is going on at UCL... more
Tell me it is a bad joke, please. The BBC, bastion of ethical values, has invited into its bed the British National Party, an avowedly racist organisation with a fascist pedigree... more
Belgium-based theatre-maker Jan Fabre pushes at what used to be called decency, with a kind of extreme burlesque that mocks our rampant materialism.... more
Despite an impressive performance from Darius, a long-winded struggle to cram spectacular film Gone With The Wind on the West End stage was not worth the effort, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Enron's execs go from bubble to bust in Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Chow Yun-Fat stars in John Woo's all-action flick Another Tomorrow II, and Tristan & Isolde drips its way onto DVD.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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