Adventures In Tuscany
by Nigel Heath The Villa Borgo di Colleoli is a magnificent former Renaissance residence situated amid the green and rolling Tuscan Hills with fine views all around. It had been owned for many...
View ArticleLITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – THE CRUCIBLE, SHEFFIELD – Dec 12th 2024
Christmas at The Crucible this year is spent at a Little Shop of Horrors that sits at the back of the stage, ready to sell us a horror rock-musical in Rocky Horror vein, full of comic fun and...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at Hampstead...
Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, which premiered 27 years ago at the National Theatre, has two themes: the love of classical poetry and the love that dare not speak its name. Stoppard has said...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews English National Ballet in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at...
Giselle, the greatest of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and...
View ArticleTRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH’S NEW YEAR GALAPAGOS SNAPSHOT
This was a spectacle I had never viewed before in all my years of travel, namely the administering of oxygen to several of my fellow passengers after we had emerged onto the Arrivals concourse at...
View ArticleDon’t expect Marvel comic characters, or any Sci-fi in this mesmeric film...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Universal Theory (December 13, 2024) Cert 15, 118 mins. In cinemas If you are not a theoretical physicist, your connection to the multiverse might be via video games or...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Kyoto @sohoplace, London
International diplomats, representing 192 countries, met in Kyoto in 1997 to negotiate a treaty to curb carbon emissions and slow down the disastrous effects of climate change. Joe Murphy and Joe...
View ArticleLOVE LIFE at LEEDS GRAND January 16th 2025
It’s Weill for Opera North in 2025, and it’s delightful. With a stunning flow of musical gems, Love Life was composed in 1947 by Threepenny Opera/Mack the Knife man Kurt Weill with Alan Jay Lerner (of...
View ArticleFlorence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are the draw in this terminal illness...
Joyce Glasser reviews We Live in Time (January 1, 2025) Cert. 15, 107 mins. In Cinemas The romantic comedy’s dominance was challenged after the success of Love Story in 1970 with an increasing number...
View ArticleOUR TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH STEPS OUT FOR MORE ADVENTURES ON THE CHILTERN WAY
The Stag and Huntsman is a warm and welcoming inn in the small and picturesque village of Hambleden just a couple of miles from the River Thames near Henley,,, It made the perfect overnight stopover...
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