The Hairy Ape – review
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHell on earth is currently to be found in Southwark Playhouse, where director Kate Budgen makes her mark with a feverish and visually arresting revival of Eugene O'Neill's grimy 1922 expressionistic drama.A classic story of a...
Little Dogs – review
Patti Pavilion, SwanseaThere's a lovely reading on YouTube of Dylan Thomas's short story Just Like Little Dogs. The text unfurls on the screen as the voice of – I think – Anthony Hopkins speaks the words. If you haven't come across it yet, it's wor...
Leveson inquiry: the musical – video
An auto-tuned hip-hop extravaganza starring Alastair Campbell, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant, Rupert Murdoch, Kelvin MacKenzie and many more
Little Dogs – review
Patti Pavilion, SwanseaDylan Thomas, whose short story Just Like Little Dogs inspired this collaboration between Frantic Assembly and National Theatre Wales, would like this show, you would imagine. Bold and spirited, dynamic and raw, it revels in the ...
Why the world needs Val Kilmer
He could have been another Brad Pitt. Instead he's doing one-man stage shows. Is it time for a rescue plan?For some time now, I have belonged to a secret society known as the League of Rueful Val Kilmer Enthusiasts. It consists of men of a certain age...
Named at last
Box of mementoes reveals that young art critic Juan Ramírez de Lucas had brief affair with Spanish poetThe identity of the lover to whom Federico García Lorca wrote passionate verse in his final year has been a mystery ever since the poet's assassina...
Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Caryl Phillips in A Room for London
In the fourth of our dispatches from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness – we hear from the novelist, screenwriter and essayist Caryl Phillips.For four days every month, as ...
Warning: review quotes can be very misleading
We see quotes from critics plastered all over adverts, posters and book jackets. But is their use always what it seems?The novelist Anthony Horowitz should not really have been surprised when some choice lines from an interview he conducted with Jeffre...
Culture coach: The week’s essential arts stories
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming upEach Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.• It was Turner prize ...
Derek Walcott: ‘The Oxford poetry job would have been too much work’
As his reworking of Robinson Crusoe goes on stage, Derek Walcott talks about Caribbean culture, his spat with VS Naipaul - and why he didn't want the poetry job anywayThe battle to become Oxford professor of poetry in 2009 was worthy of a mock-heroic p...
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