Pool parties, balcony acrobatics and the keys to a concrete maze, London's Modernist tower blocks are having an overdue renaissance, says Barbican-dweller Nina Caplan... more
Tilda Swinton insists that her life in the wilds of the Highlands, with a younger lover and free-spirited children, is utterly normal. And her newest film explains the importance of following your heart, wherever it leads... more
The Martin Amis/Anna Ford exchange about what may or may not have happened 22 years ago over the deathbed of her husband Mark Boxer is a storm in a tea cup... more
It's 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down, and even longer since Nick Curtis lived in Germany's most iconic city. So what does he make of Berlin now?... more
Written from inside Nazi Germany, Ödön von Horváth’s still underrated plays raise the big questions about guilt and conscience, says his translator Christopher Hampton.... more
Rory Bremner seems to have relished his move from politics, translating to the stage with breezy farce and a generous dollop of cynical social satire in this Brecht double bill.... more
The Young Vic re-opens its doors tonight following a Ł12.5 million redevelopment. Jude Law's favourite artistic haunt in the capital, has been closed for two years. ... more
Nicholas de Jongh picks out five of the best theatrical productions currently onstage in the West End, from the highly entertaining The 39 Steps, to the superb Frost/Nixon.... more
Spectacular stage design, but Berthold Brecht's text and Kurt Weill's music at times lacked dynamism during the performance of two rarely performed operatic pieces.... more
Concert review: Voices is a modern work which sets poetry by Ho Chi Minh and others to music. And, Nick Kimberley says, this performance was an appropriate 80th birthday present for composer Hans Werner Henze.... more
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