Musical Theatre
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
Musical Lessons
Could the jazz-hands pizzaz of musical theatre be just what opera needs?
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
Why musicals are Britain’s elite artform
Musical theatre is one of Britain’s most prized assets; we must protect this unique part of our culture and economy at all costs
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
