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All Change Please, Lucy Kerbel
Another week, another dispiriting gender equality statistic, as research by The Stage reveals 75% of West End musicals staged in the past decade had no women on their writing teams; removing jukebox shows from the equation, just 9% featured music by female composers. … Continue reading
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Tagged all change please, book, broadwayworld, drama, equality, female, feminism, feminist, gender, girl, kids, lucy kerbel, musical, play, review, theatre, tonic theatre, west end, woman, women, youth
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Colour, architecture and thrillers
On my June MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: True colours See the world in a new way, thanks to Hella Jongerius’s Design Museum exhibition Don’t miss: Architecture central Highlights of this year’s London Festival of Architecture Commuter corner Amanda … Continue reading
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Tagged amanda craig, architecture, art, book, breathing colour, colour, commute, commuter, design museum, drama, exhibition, fiction, gallery, Hella Jongerius, homecoming, london festival of architecture, magazine, moveto, moveto town and country, podcast, read, the lie of the land
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Giacometti, Hokusai, Paula Hawkins and a feminist podcast
On my May MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Cutting a fine figure Giacometti’s full body of work revealed in a major Tate Modern retrospective Don’t miss: Making waves The British Museum goes beyond Hokusai’s iconic print Commuter corner Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water … Continue reading
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Tagged amanda mccall, art, arts, beauty and the beast, beyond the great wave, book, british museum, commute, commuter, exhibition, feminist, gallery, giacometti, gloria steinem, hokusai, into the water, japan, japanese, judy blume, london, magazine, makers, moveto, moveto town and country, ms marvel, museum, novel, oprah winfrey, paula hawkins, podcast, read, shonda rhimes, tate modern, the girl on the train, the great wave, things to do, things to see, thriller, women
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Russian phantoms, American identity and S-Town
On my April MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Russian phantoms The Design Museum resurrects utopian Soviet architecture Don’t miss: American abyss From Edward Hopper to Grant Wood: 1930s Americana at the Royal Academy Commuter corner Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream and new podcast … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, america, america after the fall, april, architecture, art, book, building, commute, commuter, depression, design museum, edward hopper, exhibition, fever dream, gallery, grant wood, imagine moscow, london, moveto, moveto town and country magazine, novel, painting, pick of the month, podcast, read, royal academy, russian, russian revolution, s-town, soviet
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Crossrail treasures, David Hockney and Ali Smith
On my February MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Digging deep Archaeological treasures unearthed during Crossrail work displayed at the Museum of London Don’t miss: In living colour Tate Britain hosts a major David Hockney retrospective Commuter corner Ali Smith’s Brexit novel Autumn and … Continue reading
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Tagged ali smith, archaeology, art, autumn, book, brexit, commute, commuter, crossrail, david hockney, exhibition, finds, gallery, heritage, history, london, magazine, make money, moveto, moveto town and country, museum, museum of london, painting, podcast, read, side hustle school, tate britain, tunnel
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Sex with Strangers, Hampstead Theatre
This is pure titular titillation – a strategy that backfires with this dated, laboured and distinctly unsexy piece. “Serious” writer Olivia (Emilia Fox) at one point bemoans the fact that her failed first novel was falsely marketed as a chick-lit … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, broadwayworld, divergent, emilia fox, hampstead theatre, laura eason, london, love, peter dubois, publishing, review, sex, sex with strangers, theatre, theo james, writer, writing
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Mathematics, Emma Hamilton and The Nix
On my January MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Do the maths The Science Museum’s new gallery, designed by the late Zaha Hadid, shows how sums underpin the modern world Don’t miss: Portrait of a lady Emma Hamilton’s extraordinary life explored at … Continue reading
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Tagged app, art, book, commute, commuter, emma hamilton, exhibition, gallery, london, magazine, mathematics the winton gallery, maths, moveto, moveto town and country, museum, nathan hill, national maritime museum, nelson, novel, paintings, politics, read, run, rundouble, runner, running, science museum, the nix, zaha hadid
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Brutus and Other Heroines, Harriet Walter
One of the big theatre stories of 2016 is women reclaiming Shakespeare, from Gillian Bevan’s Cymbeline and Michelle Terry’s Henry V to Glenda Jackson’s Lear and Phyllida Lloyd’s landmark all-female trilogy starring Harriet Walter. Read my full BroadwayWorld review here
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Tagged acting, actress, book, broadwayworld, brutus and other heroines, christmas, donmar, equality, feminist, gift, guide, harriet walter, kings cross theatre, phyllida lloyd, review, shakespeare, shakespeare trilogy, women
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