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Critic's notebook

8 April 2013

  • In the Beginning Was the End

    Why I teach drama students what theatre critics are thinking

    Lyn Gardner: The best reason for teaching students of acting about theatre criticism is preparing them for failure – and failing better

3 March 2013

  • Brian Logan

    Grieve for The Good Life? Not this Young One

    Brian Logan
    For comedy-watchers of Brian Logan's vintage, The Good Life was notable chiefly for one thing only: it was the icon of bourgeois entertainment that, in 1983, was ripped to shreds by Vyvyan the punk in The Young Ones

27 February 2013

  • Why English National Ballet's rebranding was a necessary step

    Judith Mackrell: Goodbye tutus and tights, hello dancing demons – Tamara Rojo now leads a company with a new look and feel, and the critics are wrong to complain

15 February 2013

  • The ice-age flute that can play The Star-Spangled Banner

    Tom Service: The vulture-bone flute in the British Museum's Ice Age Art show proves that – even 40,000 years ago – music got the party started

3 February 2013

  • Alexis Petridis on Inspector Norse, the dancing drugmaker

    Todd Terje's 15-minute film about the life of an eccentric Norwegian who inspired a house anthem is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking

25 January 2013

  • In Basildon

    Michael Billington on working-class theatre

    Michael Billington: 'Where have all the kitchen sinks gone?'

20 January 2013

  • Tom Service on catchy contemporary opera

    Tom Service: Anyone want to hear me hum Nixon in China?

13 January 2013

  • Screening room

    Peter Bradshaw on film critics' favourite seats

    Peter Bradshaw: No one, not even Maureen Lipman, can have my seat

6 January 2013

  • Pappy's

    Brian Logan on comedians on children's TV

    Brian Logan: What are my comedy heroes doing on kids' TV?

9 December 2012

  • Clive Rowe

    Lyn Gardner on panto season

    Panto isn't proper theatre? Oh yes it is!

18 November 2012

  • Matt Rees, standing, performs for The Talent

    Judith Mackrell on dance's place in the curriculum

    Dance in schools? It ought to be a no-brainer, writes Judith Mackrell

11 November 2012

  • Appomattox, part of the Christopher Hampton season at the Guthrie, Minneapolis

    Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons

    'Forget the single play – give me an entire oeuvre'

21 October 2012

  • Dance GB

    Judith Mackrell on why ballet companies should co-operate

    Judith Mackrell: Ballet companies of Britain – unite!

14 October 2012

  • Claudio Abbado

    Tom Service on fantasy orchestras

    'You could drop in the brazen brilliance of the New York Phil's brass section – and personally, I'd want Claudio Abbado'

7 October 2012

  • MTV

    Alexis Petridis on MTV's wild years

    'Why I miss the career-ending pop video'

30 September 2012

  • Elisabeth Mahoney on the amazing weirdness of radio-station loyalty

    'I can't give birth to Magic FM, cried my niece'

23 September 2012

  • Peter Bradshaw's lovechild.

    Peter Bradshaw on Twitter vanity searches

    'Googling yourself is just weak dope'

16 September 2012

  • Fountain pen and a notebook

    Lyn Gardner on the unwelcome distraction of note-taking

    Lyn Gardner: 'It was an intense solo show and I was in the front row. Ten minutes in, she stopped the show, removed my notebook and pen, and carried on'

10 September 2012

  • women in Brownies' uniforms on a hen night in Edinburgh

    Stag and hen dos are a comedian's worst nightmare

    Comedy gigs and stag dos usually equal disaster – but a chocolate penis changed my mind, says Brian Logan

26 August 2012

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    Tom Service on the Royal Albert Hall

    Tom Service: 'My love affair with classical music's moshpit'
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