Theatre
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
A long-term bet we must take
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will go on again; it always does
Should we listen to writers about their own work?
As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
