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Alan Bennett is back in the habit with brilliant but flawed play

18.11.09
Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art is funny and sometimes brilliantly so, but strangely uninvolving.... more

End of a generation: Queen pays tribute to the last WWI veterans

10.11.09
Latest: Special memorial service at Westminster Abbey as millions of people across Britain and Europe observed two-minute Armistice Day silence... more

High camp, high art from Alan Bennett

13.10.09
In re-imagining the relationship between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten for his new play, Alan Bennett returns to a theme close to his heart.... more

Opening in London this week

12.10.09
The Hoerengracht exhibition opens at the National Gallery with The Habit of Art at the National Theatre.... more

BBC brings Symphony Orchestra to the masses with first look at the People's Prom

25.06.09
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra are playing at railway stations and hospitals, in museums and libraries across the city to show commuters what they can do... more

The Brudenell is a classical, coastal delight

11.06.09
From the home of the Aldeburgh Festival comes a mix of Enid Blyton-era seaside holidays and chattering-class comfort... more

Get back in fashion with classic beach huts

21.05.09
Classic beach abodes are back in fashion and Felice Hardy knows where to find them... more

Boris the Bold has put paid to capital’s rabbit hutches

08.05.09
Hooray for Boris. Make the Mayor of London Prime Minister, no, King. For our hero seems to have faced down penny-pinching housebuilders to insist no more rabbit-hutch homes be built for sale in London ... more

A very orderly riot, and a professional job by Agius

23.04.09
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Morpurgo: War Horse is a story I had to write

31.03.09
As the award-winning adaptation of his Great War novel transfers to the West End, Michael Morpurgo pays tribute to the eight million noble beasts that perished in the trenches.... more

Historic gems threatened by halving of Lottery funds

24.03.09
Britain's historic landscapes and buildings are under threat after severe funding cuts, the new chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund warns... more

Beggar's Opera is only so-so in Soho

21.01.09
Pay your local hobo a tenner to croon Nessun Dorma and you'll have a Beggar's Opera more coherent than the Royal Opera's offering.... more

Music

08.10.08
Live music, be it opera or rock festivals, is proving more popular than ever — and is offering a desperately needed financial lifeline. London remains the heartbeat of the industry. ... more

Crystal Method for Roger Hiorns

26.08.08
Roger Hiorns has taken a derelict London bedsit and filled it with a toxic, ever-expanding chemical sculpture. He promises spectacular results.... more

DAVID BOWIE: I went to buy some shoes - and I came back with Life On Mars

28.06.08
As The Mail on Sunday gives away his new album iSELECT, David Bowie reveals in his own words the fascinating stories behind the songs he personally selected for this unique CD.... more

Musical adventure at Aldeburgh Festival

24.06.08
The audienceat the Aldeburgh Festival sat enthralled, as if collectively stunned by a most Gallic coup de foudre.... more

Top Opera House tickets hit £210 to pay for lower prices in the gods

19.03.08
Top prices at the Royal Opera House are rising to £210 for the hottest productions featuring stars such as Bryn Terfel... more

Adams's mystifying but soothing eco-fable

13.08.07
John Adams's new opera, A Flowering Tree, shuns the contemporary politics of Nixon in China and turns to ancient South Indian mythology.... more

No doubts from Noseda

08.08.07
Gianandrea Noseda had an approach that was a times stately as he built a momentum that never slackened at the Proms.... more

Quartet display intensity

12.07.07
The Brodsky Quartet, with guest leader Mia Cooper, played with nobility and intensity and held the audience in silent concentration... more

Dam Busters fly in for film night at the Proms

25.04.07
The 113th BBC Proms will celebrate great British films with a concert of scores from classics such as The Dam Busters and Shakespeare In Love.... more

Bringing Britten to life

04.12.06
Benjamin Britten died 30 years ago today and the Wigmore Hall is paying tribute with half-a-dozen concerts.... more

Variations steals the show

09.11.06
The Dutch National Ballet's mixed bill is crisply danced and impeccably staged and includes the wonderful Frank Bridge Variations.... more

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