The poor are always with us
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest books Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century by Linda Nochlin (Thames & Hudson £24.95). The Industrial Revolution brought poverty, squalo ...
LIFESTYLE
Thanks to a strong cast, this play presents a moving, poignant slice of life
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews The York Realist at the Crucible, Sheffield (March 28th 2018) Written in 2001 by non-Yorkshireman Peter Gill, The York Realist is set in 1960’s rural Yorkshire, a gent ...
Arnie’s eldest son, Patrick Schwarzenegger dares to be different in this maudlin teen weepie
Joyce Glasser reviews Midnight Sun (March 30, 2018) Cert. 12A, 91 min. This remake of a 2006 Japanese film directed by Norihiro Koizumi is a Mills & Boon romantic weepie targeted at 12-year-girls ...
Fiona Shaw directs Mozart’s opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Marriage of Figaro at London Coliseum King Louis XV1 banned Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro in 1778, finding the attacks on the social order and the mockery of author ...