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...
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 ...
The week that Maurice Sendak died and Jaggergate broke
It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the webEach Thursday, I round up the biggest arts news of the week, recommend some longer reads and have...
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 ...
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motivesWilliam Shakespeare's reputation has little to fear from history, but even so it's nice to know that he has got a Yorkshire student at Northumbria uni...
Fox family actors return to great-grandfather’s glittering Yorkshire hall
Edward, Emilia & Co are on stage at Harrogate's former Kursaal built by great (and great-great) grandad Samson Fox, inventor of the corrugated boiler flueFox hunters can have a field day in Harrogate this weekend when pretty much the entire acting dyna...
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...
Carol Ann Duffy to bring folk tales to stage for Christmas
Poet laureate will retell classic stories for Royal Exchange Manchester's winter show Rats' TalesPoet laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to retell classic folk stories including The Pied Piper of Hamelin for the theatre this Christmas.Duffy is collaborating w...
The Great Gatsby – review
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonRecognisably Gatsby, but certainly not great, this stage version of F Scott Fitzgerald's story aches with promise unfulfilled. The audience is encouraged to dress up 1920s style; there is alcohol served in jam jars, and Bosto...
Gatz: The greater Gatsby
A performance of every word of F Scott Fitzgerald's jazz era classic, Gatz lasts a marathon eight hours (with a break for dinner). How do the actors manage it?On paper it looks like punishment: an eight-hour stage production (albeit with a dinner ...
