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The film that enriches and enhances the Tate’s unmissable James McNeill...
Joyce Glasser reviews Exhibition on Screen: James McNeill Whistler (September 14, 2026) PG, 90 mins. Do not miss the illuminating exhibition at the Tate Britain, James McNeill Whistler, which closes...
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprise their roles as witches 25 years...
Joyce Glasser reviews Practical Magic 2 (September 11, 2026), Cert 12A, 129 mins. In cinemas Twenty-eight years is a long time to be waiting for a sequel and, it is fair to say that nobody has been...
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KING LEAR – The Crucible, Sheffield – Sept 4th 2026
When it comes to crumbling, poisonous family relationships that head into devastating tragedy thanks to malicious, devious children who cruelly trick, abuse and betray their parents for their own...
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Robert Tanitch reviews A Month in the Country at the Donmar Warehouse, London.
It is a commonplace to say that A Month in the Country is the best play Chekhov did not write; but in fact, though Turgenev does anticipate Chekhov, it is still very much a romantic drama of its own...
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China’s robotic athletes could turn into military weapons, but in Colony,...
Joyce Glasser reviews Colony (August 28, 2026), Cert. 15, 123 mins. Yeon Sang-ho is the South-Korean writer-director whose Train to Busan is one of the best zombie movies and horror-action movies ever...
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HIGH SOCIETY – Leeds Grand Theatre – Aug 25th 2026
Big movie hit of 1956, massively popular ever since, is the rom-com High Society, a film that sparkles at every delightful moment in spite of its silly plot and whisks you off most joyfully to nowhere...
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Joyce Glasser reviews The End of Oak Street (August 14, 2026) Cert. 12A, 99...
If you see the trailers, ads or hear any quick summary of The End of Oak Street, you could be forgiven for thinking the film is yet another rehash of the Jurassic Park franchise created in the 1990s...
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NIGEL HEATH SPENDS A MOST MORABLE DAY WALKING THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL
The Grand Western Canal runs for eleven glorious miles through rolling mid-Devon countryside with distant views of Exmoor – all the way from Tiverton to a remote and shady Lowdwells Basin in the...
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Emilio Isgrò Erasing to Create – at the Estorick Collection, London until 6...
The Italian visual artist Emilio Isgrò is older than the Italian Republic which turned 80 this year. The Estorick and the Italian Consulate celebrate this milestone with an evocative, innovative and...
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NIGEL HEATH ENJOYS A BOAT TRIP OUT TO A SEAL COLONY, SOME DELIGHTFUL COASTAL...
If we could have time travelled back to the 17th century and invited to put up at the recently built flint walled manor house in the small coastal village of Blakeney we would have looked out on a...
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A VISIT TO ST IVES, THE ONE BY A RIVER AND NOT BY THE SEA
By Nigel Heath At one end of the iconic Golden Lion Hotel, a bustling coaching inn since the 18th century and overlooking the picturesque main square in the old market town of St Ives in...
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Types of Life Insurance You Should Be Considering
Most of us don’t think about life insurance until something happens – a death in the family or a health scare. Then it’s all you can think about. While it can be daunting to research the types of life...
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European premiere of BUFFOON – Crucible Playhouse – July 17th 2026
Acted out intensely over 90 minutes by one man alone, Buffoon tells the anguished tale of Felix, a story powerfully charged with emotion, tinged with dark humour, steeped increasingly in tragedy and...
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OH ZEUS! – Doncaster CAST – July 4th 2026
Glorious set, glorious costumes, glorious props, glorious lighting and sound effects, glorious script, doubly glorious performances – yes, even without a comma, Oh Zeus is gloriously,...
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SUMMER HOLIDAY – The Crucible, Sheffield – June 30th 2026
It was way, way back in 1963 that bachelor boy, Cliff Richard, first youthfully urged us to put on our dancing shoes and dance away our blu-ues by joining him and his happy-go-lucky pals on a carefree...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Florian Zeller’s The Truth at Apollo Theatre, London.
Florian Zeller, the multi award-winning French novelist and playwright, is as successful in London as he is in Paris. He is the most popular French dramatist in the UK since Jean Anouilh. His many...
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) – The Reduced...
Larking about for laughs is what this 90-minute romp is about, all done, thanks to Liz Cooke and Alexander Stafford, on a minimalist set that’s aesthetically pleasing and beautifully lit. Filled with...
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OUR FRENCH PIED-A-TERRE ADVENTURE
Here is Chapter Two of our travel writer Nigel Heath’s French home-owning odyssey Our Stairwell Discovery Now as we sailed out from Portsmouth early on a sunny morning in late July, we began pondering...
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How a Titrator Helps UK Labs Check the Water Reaching Your Home
Every glass of tap water depends on checks most people never see. UK laboratories test water for hardness, alkalinity, chloride levels and other markers before problems reach homes, care settings or...
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The chain-smoking, dog-loving, prodigiously creative David Hockney dies at 88
by Joyce Glasser On June 12th, at 11:32 I heard the news that David Hockney died. My immediate reaction was what a wonderful, full, long life he lived – with his extensive address book, his...
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