As Andrew Lloyd Webber launches a YouTube channel, here’s how he revived the musical
By combining the tradition facets with modern music Lloyd Webber reinvigorated the form.
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Burns Night: stories of adventure and anguish from the Scottish diaspora
The story of the Scottish diaspora has been well told in print. Now a new audio book brings emigrant stories to life in their own words.
Black modernism, racism and the making of popular British culture in the inter‑war years
In 1919, Ivy MacKusick, an art student at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art, completed a Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. We know nothing about the man of African descent depicted in this portrait…
The Moomins drift through time like a myth – that’s why they resist meaning and endure
Tove Jansson’s gentle Moomin creatures reflect something ancient and ever-changing: a mythic rhythm of wandering, belonging and becoming.
The Last Word: ‘painfully poignant’ play gives a voice to women silenced by Russia’s legal system
The Last Word focuses on the sheer absurdity of putting women on trial for daring to speak out. The women’s speeches are all verbatim transcripts, spoken by one actress.
Education and art for all: Castro’s cultural legacy
Images of Castro as either a monster or saviour miss the mark, but his commitment to literacy and culture is undeniable.
Adults: how a sex play about boomers v millennials brings both together
Kieran Hurley’s new play treads the familiar debate of millennial precarity versus boomer affluence with verve and insight.
Christmas in wartime: how Britain coped with the ‘bleak midwinter’ of 1942
By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
Pinewood expansion: now is the time for British film to be brave
If someone asked you to think of a British film, what would come to mind? For some years now, the most likely answer would have been any of the select but powerful band of little films that made good on…
The pope’s memoir, Oscar nominees and a mafia exhibition – what to read, see and do this week
The Brutalist now has ten Oscar nominations. We asked a real architect to review the film.
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