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James McArdle: ‘Boris Johnson missed the point of Macbeth’
The actor chats the Scottish play and the BBC’s Life After Life. Read my full The i Paper interview here
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Tagged actor, adaptation, almeida theatre, bbc, book, boris johnson, drama, inews, interview, james mcardle, kate atkinson, life after life, london, macbeth, novel, play, Saoirse Ronan, shakespeare, the i paper, theatre, tv
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Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith
The traditional curtain-raiser for theatre’s festive season sacrifices pantomime silliness for painful political gags. Read my full Telegraph review here
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Tagged aladdin, boris johnson, london, lyric hammersmith, panto, pantomime, play, review, telegraph, theatre
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Park Theatre chief Jez Bond brands the Government’s strategy and Tier 4 ‘disastrous’
“It’s pretty disastrous.” That’s the view of Jez Bond, artistic director of London’s Park Theatre, of these last few weeks of Government decision-making, which have seen several regions plunged into first Tier 3 and then Tier 4 – meaning their theatres are … Continue reading
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Tagged boris johnson, interview, jez bond, london, park theatre, play, telegraph, theatre, tier 4, tier system
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‘No notice, no proper details’: the little bookshop fearing a second lockdown
“We feared a second lockdown might happen, but we wanted it earlier,” says Jonathan Main, owner of independent Bookseller Crow on the Hill in London’s Crystal Palace. “Locking down again during our second-busiest sales month of the year? Bad news.” … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, book, books, bookshop, boris johnson, christmas, closed, cookbooks, crow on the hill, crystal palace, emily st john mandel, government, high street, interview, jonathan main, lockdown, lockdown 2, london, novel, pandemic, publisher, publishing, reading, sales, second lockdown, shop, station eleven, telegraph
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Public cash for billionaires? The questions hanging over Oliver Dowden’s Cultural Recovery Fund
This week saw some succour for the arts. The award of £257 million in grants to British organisations has finally been announced. This money will come from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and it’s designed to tide businesses over … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, arts council, boris johnson, comedy, coronavirus, culture, David Ross, dcms, freelancer, freelancers, Frog and Bucket, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, img artists, london palladium, mission mars, money, music, nevill holt opera, oliver dowden, pandemic, Paradigm Agency, reopening, rescue fund, rescue package, secret cinema, select committee, social distancing, telegraph, theatre, west end, wigmore hall
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My Country; a work in progress, National Theatre
How quickly should art react? The National’s Great Britain opened right on the heels of the 2014 phone-hacking trial, and here again the theatre is speedy with this response to the EU referendum. But, as with Brexit itself, the piece … Continue reading
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Tagged boris johnson, brexit, britain, british, broadwayworld, carol ann duffy, david cameron, eu referendum, leave, my country, nation, national, national theatre, nigel farage, politician, politics, remain, review, rufus norris, tour
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The art of living
Highlights of my April MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Public property New London Architecture’s Peter Murray discusses the transformation of the capital’s public spaces – past and future Don’t miss: Pickup artist Find innovative, affordable work and create it at … Continue reading
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Tagged app, architecture, art, artist, atavist, bond, book, boris johnson, building, buy, cafe, capital, city, commute, commuter, crossrail, culture, cycling, cyclist, design, designer, development, exhibition, exhibition road, festival, fiction, film, garden, graphic arts, house, housing, illustrator, james bond, ken livingstone, london, mayor of london, mini holland, morse code, movie, new london architecture, nine elms, nla, nonfiction, park, pedestrianisation, peter murray, pick me up, placemaking, planner, poster, print, public, public realms, public spaces, read, road, somerset house, spy, square, street, study, superhighway, tfl, town, trafalgar square, transport for london
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The art of living
Highlights of my March MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: The female gaze Forward-thinking women working in architecture, urban and landscape design are showcased at Roca London Gallery Don’t miss: Grand designs The 2015 Designs of the Year include self-driving cars, skyscraper … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d printing, architecture, art, arts, bath, book, boris johnson, building, comedy, commute, commuter, country, design, design museum, designs of the year, exhibition, gallery, garden, garden city, google, home, house, Kazuo Ishiguro, landscape, live, living, london, magazine, moveto, moveto town and country, museum, podcast, property, read, regeneration zones, Richard Herring, roca london gallery, self driving car, skyscraper, technology, the buried giant, theatre, town, urban design, urbanistas
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Kingmaker, St James Theatre
The news cycle waits for no man. When Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s thinly veiled Boris Johnson satire premiered in Edinburgh at the beginning of August, it seemed remarkably timely, coinciding as it did with BoJo announcing his intention to … Continue reading
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Tagged bbc, boris johnson, comedy, conservative, documentary, drama, edinburgh festival, election, house of cards, interview, leader, london, machiavelli, mayor of london, mp, parliament, play, politician, politics, prime minister, review, spitting image, st james theatre, theatre, thriller, tory
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