[ad_1] There can be no getting around the fact that Assassins is the Stephen Sondheim musical that is easier to admire than to love. Adored by critics and too often puzzled over by audiences, this plotless piece centres on nine disparate characters who have attempted – some with success and some without – to assassinate…
[ad_1] Pick of the day: Best Interests 9pm, BBC One Anyone spotting Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen’s names on the credits and expecting a scintillating black comedy (Catastrophe meets Staged, that sort of thing) will instead discover that Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne has crafted a heartbreaking drama about a couple, Nicci and Andrew, ripped apart…
[ad_1] In 2019, the American singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis wrote her big midlife crisis album, On the Line. She was 43 and a quarter, and it was, she suggests, “time”. Her mother, with whom she’d had a complicated relationship, had died, and she was getting over a breakup with her boyfriend of 12 years, fellow singer…
[ad_1] Aisling Bea can vividly remember winning two competitions in her life. The first was when she was around eight years old and went to see her cousin perform in a school panto. She bought tickets for the raffle and won. The prize? “It was an [Irish dairy company] Avonmore hamper,” she laughs. “I got…
[ad_1] The Crowded Room Friday 9 June, Apple TV+ Tom Holland as Danny Sullivan (Photo: Stephanie Mei-Ling/Apple) In the late 70s, Billy Milligan became the first person to be acquitted of a crime due to a dissociative identity disorder, instructed to spend a decade as a patient in psychiatric hospitals instead of prison. His story…
[ad_1] “The stage is home and home is a stage,” wrote the Swedish artist Moki Cherry of a creative life shared with jazz musician Don Cherry and children Eagle-Eye and Neneh. Years on the road were punctuated with an open-house arrangement in an old school building in the Swedish countryside. Moki had trained in fashion…
[ad_1] Shepherding a new musical into life is a painstakingly lengthy, not to mention costly business, requiring dedication and determination in equal measure. Many promising contenders fall on this daunting obstacle course, especially when not backed by deep-pocketed corporate bucks, but just sometimes the little show that can, crosses the finish line in triumph. Operation…
[ad_1] Should ending treatment for a critically ill child be the parents’ choice, or the doctors’? Jack Thorne’s new BBC One series tackles a contentious issue – and more shows should follow its lead June 10, 2023 7:00 am(Updated 9:54 am) Michael Sheen as Andrew and Sharon Horgan as Nicci (Photo: Kevin Baker/BBC/Chapter One/Chris Baker…
[ad_1] Following the release of Glastonbury’s line-up one mystery band with a primetime slot on the Pyramid Stage has been making waves. Listed as The Churnups, speculation has been reaching fever pitch as to who this band could be. Some hints dropped on social media, however, could solve the puzzle. Who are The Churnups? Considering…
[ad_1] Your enjoyment of Apple TV+’s new psychological drama will depend on your familiarity with the source material. If you are aware of Billy Milligan, the real man who loosely inspired it, one of the show’s key mysteries is immediately solved. Better to watch it without knowing anything about the story. For that reason, the…
