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Thirty-five years ago, two films about the legend of Robin Hood – stealer from the rich, giver to the poor – met and duelled in cinemas; we all know who won, Kevin Costner’s big-budget blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But what about the other one? It was titled simply Robin Hood, directed by John…
Bonnie Tyler has been hospitalised at Faro hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Welsh singer, 74, who has lived in the Algarve, Portugal, for several years, had been in hospital since 30 March following complications after the surgery. Local source Correio da Manhã says that her condition had been…
Few conductors have a more quintessentially English résumé than Ed Gardner. He was a boy chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, then followed a familiar route into British musical society, through Eton College, Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music. Many of Gardner’s big breaks were in England: as an assistant to Mark Elder at the…
Open All Hours: Inside Out 8pm, U&GoldThe shop doorbell tinkles as David Jason steps on to the set of Open All Hours a whopping 50 years after the sitcom first aired. Diane Morgan narrates this two-hour special that looks back at the show with Jason, along with fans such as Johnny Vegas and cast members…
Tiler Peck has been thinking about George Balanchine a lot lately. It’s not a stretch. He was the founding choreographer of New York City Ballet, where Peck has danced for 22 years. She never met Balanchine, but she knows him through his ballets. And no one made ballets like Balanchine, especially the mammoth ones, with…
Depending on how you look at it, drag ballet troupe the Trocks offer either lighthearted camp, an in-joke for dance megafans, or an existential question about the very nature of ballet and beauty. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, to give the company its formal mouthful of a name, has been going since 1974, five…
Legendary rockers The Rolling Stones have announced the release date of their new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ and confirmed that it will feature guest appearances from the likes of Paul McCartney and The Cure’s Robert Smith. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The rock veterans’ 25th studio album – the follow up to 2023’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’ – has been teased…
María Nieves Rego, who with her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes, formed a duo that, despite their often painful personal relationship, helped spark a tango revival in Argentina that spread worldwide, died on April 19 in Buenos Aires. She was 91. Her death was announced by the Argentine Association of Actors and…
Lerone Martin, a prominent scholar of Black religious history, leads the Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. His new book, Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr, grew from “professional and personal” roots. Professionally, Martin “started coming across things that I had never seen before” about the civil…
Broadway’s biggest night is almost upon us, and theater fans have been eagerly awaiting the lineup of Tony Award nominees. The nominations were announced Tuesday by the actors Uzo Aduba, a Tony nominee in 2022 for her role in “Clyde’s,” and Darren Criss, who last year took home the Tony for lead actor in a…
