The Critics
Eric Ravilious: a talent too long ignored
Ravilious’s ethereal, understated paintings are quietly dazzling
Heartless Heights
Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
The art of introspection
This gathering of Van Gogh’s self-portraits is as unsettling as it is impressive
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
Musical Lessons
Could the jazz-hands pizzaz of musical theatre be just what opera needs?
Mystery of the missing bronze
A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned