Just when you thought the leaders’ debates would be rubbish, along comes Britain’s first-ever televised version of the US presidential debates and we’re blown away... more
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more
The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more
The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more
For women, dressing for summer here is a whole lot easier (and cheaper) than in London. You know that stepping outside will feel like walking into a blast furnace, so you choose pretty light sundresses and then you buy a cardigan to battle the freezing air-conditioning inside... more
In the movie, she's a man-hungry girl about town. But off screen, Cynthia Nixon is passionately in love with another woman (and she's definitely not interested in Manolo Blahniks)... more
Sensitive Seventies troubadour James Taylor was the unlikely source of a lot of big laughs at Hammersmith Apollo, as he made a late bid for a career as a stand-up, or rather sit-down, comedian.... more
Anything placed alongside Mahler's brilliantly crafted Fifth is liable to seem insubstantial, which was certainly the case for the LSO's performance of Fearful Symmetries. ... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
Frank Langella's extraordinary acting feat as President Nixon in the gripping Frost/Nixon can be truly described as "great", says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Peter Morgan is Britain's hottest television, film and stage writer. His brilliance is in imagining the private conversations of the power players. Just don't call it docudrama, he says.... more
Punk rock, the raucous voice of rebellion in the Seventies, is to be celebrated with an exhibition at one of Britain's most august arts institutions.... 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
Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more
Peter Morgan's enthralling play Frost/Nixon follows President Nixon's extraordinary trial by television and offers fascinating insights on the relationship between politics and the media.... 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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