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Meet the doorstep carol singers determined to get the nation wassailing
As coronavirus restrictions threaten to steal Christmas cheer, carol singing has been at the forefront of people’s minds this week. An open letter sent to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, signed by heavyweights like composer John Rutter, singer Aled Jones, violinist … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged carol, carols, christmas, covid, doorstep carols, free, hamilton, home, kerbside carols, les miserables, maria friedman, mary poppins, music, performance, safe, show, singing, telegraph, west end
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Get your dance fix at home
From streamed dance performances to classes and classic film escapism. Read my full Dancing Times article here
Posted in Dance, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged all that jazz, class, classes, dance, dancing, dirty dancing, film, free, home, instagram, learn, marquee tv, movie, new adventures, performance, production, Rosie Kay Dance Company, royal opera house, show, singin in the rain, streamed, streaming, strictly, strictly come dancing, tamara rojo, the band wagon, tv, video, watch
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Home Futures, The Favourite, Michelle Obama and inspiring libraries
In my February MoveTo Town and Country Arts pages: Exhibition Avant-garde visions in Home Futures at the Design Museum Film A right royal romp in award-winning The Favourite Theatre Sondheim reborn in the sensational musical Company Commuter corner Candid reflections from Michelle Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged architecture, art, article, arts, becoming, best, best libraries, book, book tickets, buy art, circus, cirque eloize, commute, commuter, company, cosi fan tutte, dance, design museum, exhibition, february, film, gallery, home, home futures, hotel, house, libraries, london libraries, magazine, march, michelle obama, moveto, moveto town and country, movie, mozart, museum, musical, olivia colman, opera, oscars, parallax art fair, peacock theatre, read, royal opera house, sondheim, the favourite, theatre, things to do, visit london, west end, white house
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Pericles, National Theatre
It’s a people’s revolution. For the very first time, a community cast takes the Olivier stage: around 200 non-professionals, led by a few actors, representing national diversity. And that’s no anaemic buzzword here, but real inclusion – assorted ages, sizes, … Continue reading
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Tagged chris bush, community, diversity, emily lim, family, ham and high, home, inclusion, jim fortune, musical, national theatre, pericles, play, public acts, review, shakespeare, theatre
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Home, I’m Darling, National Theatre
The first thing we see is Anna Fleischle’s Fifties-tastic giant doll’s-house set: each period-perfect room bathed in a different twinkling hue, flowers painted onto the brick wall, and jaunty music setting the tone. But Katherine Parkinson’s Judy is able to open the … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anna fleischle, book tickets, broadwayworld, feminism, feminist, fifties, hello i'm darling, home, homemaker, jive, katherine parkinson, laura wade, london, marriage, national theatre, nostalgia, review, sian thomas, tamara harvey, theatre, visit london, wife, women
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Andreas Gurky, Three Billboards, Pinter and mermaids
On my (new and improved!) February MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Exhibition The Hayward Gallery reopens in style with a retrospective of Andreas Gurky Film Frances McDormand is riveting as the foul-mouthed avenging angel in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Theatre Sixty years on, Harold Pinter’s The … Continue reading
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Tagged andreas gurky, art, book, buy, commute, commuter, exhibition, film, frances mcdormand, harold pinter, harold pinter theatre, Hayward Gallery, home, Imogen Hermes Gowar, lifestyle, london, magazine, martin mcdonagh, moveto, moveto town and country, movie, novel, oscars, photographer, photography, property, review, stage, stephen mangan, the birthday party, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, theatre, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, tickets, toby jones, west end, zoe wanamaker
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Georgian architecture, Impressionists in London, and Ed Miliband
On my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: By George Pablo Bronstein explores our abiding love of Georgian architecture in a new RIBA exhibition Don’t miss: Rebel rebel Tate Britain views London through the eyes of the Impressionists Commuter … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, article, artist, book, building, commute, commuter, culture, ed miliband, exhibition, fiction, gallery, georgian, heather the totality, home, house, impressionist, impressionists in london, london, mad men, magazine, matthew weiner, monet, moveto, moveto town and country, museum, neo-georgian, novel, pablo bronstein, podcast, property, read, reasons to be cheerful, riba, tate britain, visit london
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The art of living
Highlights of my May MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: By design Installations, hidden histories and must-have new products at Clerkenwell Design Week Don’t miss: New build London Festival of Architecture takes on the revolutionised workplace, and a thought-provoking examination … Continue reading
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Tagged app, architecture, art, book, building, buy, clerkenwell, clerkenwell design week, commute, commuter, country, culture, design, designer, exhibition, festival, goal, hausfrau, home, house, interiors, linkagoal, london, london festival of architecture, milton keynes, modernism, move, moveto, moving, new town, pavilion, property, read, riba, serpentine, town, v&a, work, workplace
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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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