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Chelsea-Lyn Rudder: Rio Wins! Good News for the Global SouthOn Friday, October 2 Rio de Janeiro sambaed its way into the hearts of the International Olympic Committee, and secured the well-deserved opportunity to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Dashing the hopes of pitch teams from Madrid, Tokyo and our own Chicago, Rio made history and will be the first S... |
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The Goold standard for theatre directors | Lyn GardnerThe ubiquitous director of King Lear, Macbeth and now Turandot knows how to shake up the classics. We need more like himIt's a long time since British theatre had a showman with quite the pizzazz of Rupert Goold. You might have to look back to the young Peter Hall or even the actor-managers of th... |
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Jayne Lyn Stahl: Shotgun ConfessionsOkay, am I the only one who thinks the biggest enemy we face now isn't the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, but bad taste? Just when it looks like we've heard enough about Roman Polanski's capers, and after we finally laid Michael Jackson to rest, David Letterman has to go and open his own peculiar Pand... |
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Who needs several productions of the same play? | Lyn GardnerIt has been suggested that top stagings of the classics could be beamed to regional theatres, allowing them to concentrate on other workEven Michael Boyd's insistence today that the broadcast event does not match the live experience can't quash the idea that filming plays and broadcasting them in... |
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The Arts Council's Sustain fund favours the high and mighty | Lyn GardnerMore Arts Council cash is flooding into flagship organisations such as the Royal Opera House while the independent sector is left strugglingIt is tempting to say I told you so, but I don't feel smug – just utter despair – at the decisions made by Arts Council England over who does and... |
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What to see this week: Lyn Gardner's theatre tipsThe curtain falls on the Edinburgh festival, Alan Cumming unveils his one-man show at the Vaudeville in London and Bristol brings out the puppetsSo it's goodbye to Edinburgh from me – and it's been a good one, although I'm sad that I'm going to miss Mabou Mines's Peter and Wendy and the res... |
