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Back to SearchThe Corn is Green play and Walter Sickert exhibition reviewed, Cherylee Houston
Observer theatre critic Susannah Clapp and broadcaster and Editor of the Wales Art Review Gary Raymond review The Corn is Green at the National Theat…
4 years, 1 month ago
Raphael exhibition; The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist; poet Valzhyna Mort
Dr Matthias Wivel, co-curator of the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery, discusses the life and death of the Renaissance painter and how he s…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs
Emerging playwright Tim Foley is in the distinctive position of having won a prize for every play of his that has been staged. He joins Front Row to…
4 years, 1 month ago
Punchdrunk's The Burnt City, John Morton on Ten Percent, musician Jack Savoretti
The Burnt City is the biggest production to date from the pioneering immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. As the company takes up residence in the f…
4 years, 1 month ago
Atlantis and The Young Pretender reviewed, Martin Green, Venice Biennale
Atlantis (2019) was the Ukrainian entry for that year's Oscars. It now seems incredibly prescient in its depiction of a Ukraine set post-war in 2025.…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Solemani on TV's Chivalry; male soprano Samuel Marino performs; Bradford's bid for UK City of Culture
Chivalry, the new Channel 4 comedy which looks at the making of a Hollywood movie in a post MeToo world, has been co-created by its co-stars – Sarah …
4 years, 1 month ago
Robert Eggers on The Northman, Oliver Jeffers, the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Director Robert Eggers discusses his new film The Northman, set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century. A Nordic prince sets out on a mission of …
4 years, 1 month ago
Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Big Jubilee Read from the Library of Birmingham
The Big Jubilee Read is a reading for pleasure campaign by the Reading Agency and the BBC highlighting 70 books from across the Commonwealth publishe…
4 years, 1 month ago
Benedetta film and Let the Song Hold Us exhibition reviewed; Slung Low Theatre
Our Thursday review critics, Dr. Kirsty Fairclough and poet Joelle Taylor, give their assessment of Paul Verhoeven's film Benedetta and the exhibitio…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jude Owusu, Operation Mincemeat, Wrexham's bid for UK City of Culture 2025
Tom Robinson is the black man wrongly accused of raping a white girl in To Kill a Mocking Bird. In Harper Lee's novel and the film he is at the centr…
4 years, 2 months ago