The Critics
Old Romeo’s Almanac
Our theater gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors and gives us some predictions for the new year
To catch a thief
Is a super-rich collector having works stolen to order?
Mood musical
An interesting new West End show about young millennials has echoes of far older classics
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
“Between you and me…”
Our theatre gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.