Thursday, November 24, 2016
It’s the onset of doomsday and there is still a funny side.The backdrop of London’s latest hot ticket - Lucy Kirkwood’s new play “The Children” - gets pretty rapidly sketched in. T…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:05PMFriday, November 11, 2016
Leonard Cohen was an active poet and writer throughout his 50-year career, but for many he can be best judged by his albums.There are 14 studio releases and about eight other official live r…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:40AMLeonard Cohen, who has died at the age of 82, will be remembered for his gravelly voiced, poetic songs that mix spirituality and sex as he spent a lifetime seeking love and enlightenment.Tho…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:47AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
David Bowie’s final gift to the world, “Lazarus,” comes bearing many questions. Is it a bird or is it a plane? Is it a rocket or is it a metaphor? Is it a play, or is it a musical? Is …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:33PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Rock’s inspiration on visual art is being examined with a unique collection of the best concert posters of the last decade.Acts as varied as the Arctic Monkeys, the Grateful Dead and Jack …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:28AMFriday, October 28, 2016
Terry Allen is one of music’s biggest secrets. His 1970s albums won rave reviews on release. For years they were on critics’ top lists and referenced as influences by in-the-know artists…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:11AMThursday, October 27, 2016
The National Theatre pulls out all the stops with “Amadeus,” which returns to the Olivier after 37 years.The production is a something of a memorial to playwright Peter Shaffer, who died…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:38AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album, “You Want It Darker,” seems like another way to say goodbye.The old stager, now 82, has been bidding us adieu for some time. On “Popular Problems�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:04PMMonday, October 24, 2016
Castration fears have never seemed so much fun. Shostakovich’s surreal opera “The Nose” tells the story of a high-spirited snout which runs around St Petersburg being chased by its own…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:04PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The playwright is acclaimed. The acting is impressive. The staging is spectacular. The plot is tricky.David Hare’s “The Red Barn,” premiering at London’s National Theatre, starts wit…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:42AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Phil Collins, one of the biggest stars of the 1980s, has announced a comeback – with a tour in 2017 to follow re-released albums, a new hits collection, “Singles,” and an autobiography…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:35PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature over the likes of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and US novelist Philip Roth. The decision, the first time a singer-songwriter has been…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:44PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Jon Bon Jovi pauses, close to the end of his concert to unveil his new album. He tells us that he still has “something to say.” Pause. “And nothing to prove.”His band’s 14th studio…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:06AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
It’s an obviously promising recipe for an evening out. First, take Sir Ian McKellen, at 77 still treading the boards in style. Then, add another distinguished theatrical knight, Patrick St…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:23PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Edward Snowden. La La Land. Isabelle Huppert in her best role. Wolf Alice on tour.These are just some of the headline names from the 2016 BFI London Film Festival, opening on October 5. The …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:17PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Romeo and Juliet indulge in a little time travel, ending up in a world of 1950s teddy boys and violent rockers. The play is alternating with a brutal contemporary story called “Pigeon Engl…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:21AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Boy George and Marilyn are sitting in the basement of a London hotel to talk about their breakup, makeup, make-up, and a most unexpected comeback.It is worth saying at the outset that Marily…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:12AMMonday, September 26, 2016
For all the critical acclaim, Bruce Springsteen remains remarkably modest amid his battles, his demons and insecurities. The singer-songwriter, now 67, lays some of his struggles bare for th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:57PMMonday, September 19, 2016
A rare portfolio of images taken at the first American concert by the Beatles leads a sale by the online auction platform Paddle 8.The 10 photographs by Rowland Scherman are being sold at th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:14PMAfter the glamour and glitz of last night’s Emmy awards — television’s equivalent of the Oscars — fans and industry watchers have been scrutinizing the results. There …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:04AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
A newly-discovered sketch leaf by Beethoven for one of his greatest works, the “Emperor” concerto, is heading for auction at Sotheby’s.The manuscript is one of the earliest for this gr…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:43AMThursday, September 15, 2016
As a survey of the state of the music industry there is little to compare with the big prizes – the Grammys above all, but also the MTV Awards, the Brits and the Mercury Prize.Here are fiv…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:28PMIt is a National Theatre production which has proved to be a runaway success. It moved out of Southbank and into the West End. Its title references a tormented animal, it has a happy ending,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:05AMMonday, September 12, 2016
David Bowie is dead, long live David Bowie. His last recordings will be released next month. They herald a glut of news this fall that will spark a fresh wave of interest in the late star.Af…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:54PMThursday, September 8, 2016
The Beatles are putting down another musical milestone. Just over 50 years ago, the most successful pop group in history played its final public concert – now commemorated with a new film,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:51PMMonday, September 5, 2016
“The Emperor” is a must-see play in London. It packs so many trump cards into an hour: The award-winning Kathryn Hunter playing 12 different roles; a controversial story based on Ethiopi…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:29PMThursday, September 1, 2016
Kate Bush gets dressed up as an astronaut. Then she bounces crazily on a trampoline, like a naughty little girl, before cracking up laughing. Later she takes a snooze backstage, her hair in …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:52AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Pink Floyd is getting its first major international retrospective in London as rock shows multiply.The Victoria and Albert Museum show today announced “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mor…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:48AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
“Don’t clap too hard,” Kenneth Branagh tells the audience. “It’s a very old building.”If the joke is gets any reaction, it’s worth repeating, and his character Archie Rice duti…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:18PM“Much Ado About Nothing” hasn’t been done quite like this way before. Attackers blast out with Tasers; news bulletins interrupt the action with breathless headlines (“BENDICK SAFE”…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:18AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder, the Hollywood actor who starred as Willy Wonka, Dr. Frankenstein and the Waco Kid among dozens of roles, had died at the age of 83. The star finally succumbed to complicati…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:56PM 
