The Critics

Last swipe at the Proms

Is it time to give a grudging nod of acknowledgement to the BBC Proms?

Hot sauce

Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now

The art of the hype

Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method

Rooster booster

Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it

Rolling back into town

The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?

Joyous adventures in the absurd

A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back

Getting wrecked

Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it

Class viewing

The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper

Clearly raising the tone

What makes the perfect radio voice?

Tanks a lot

“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say