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Cole Porter

June 2024

  • Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican.

    Kiss Me, Kate review – glorious music, falderol frivolity and Adrian Dunbar

    Cole Porter’s musical variation on The Taming of the Shrew gets an exhilarating revival, even if the Line of Duty star’s singing is less than sensational

January 2024

  • Laura Tyrer and Matthew Jeans in High Society performing a song.

    High Society review – a fizzing cocktail of comedy, Cole Porter and emotion

    The stage adaptation of the Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra film is brought to life by a full-of-verve cast in Joseph Pitcher’s fine revival

September 2022

  • Ashley Judd and Kevin Kline at a photocall for the De-Lovely film in 2004.

    Brief letters
    Oh, Mr Porter! That’s a terrible portrayal by Kevin Kline

    Brief letters: Bad performances | Toilet tales | Monty Pythonesque | Royal barge | Marching to an earworm

October 2021

  • Felicity Kendal attending the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Picture date: Monday May 21st, 2018. Photo credit should read: Matt Crossick/ EMPICS Entertainment.<br>2D72RHR Felicity Kendal attending the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Picture date: Monday May 21st, 2018. Photo credit should read: Matt Crossick/ EMPICS Entertainment.

    Sunday with Felicity Kendal: ‘If I don’t stay active, I’ll fossilise’

  • Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.

    Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Love for Sale review – a fond farewell

September 2021

  • Infectiously good fun … Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett: Love for Sale review – jazz interloper livens up crooner’s swansong

    The pop diva and jazz maestro defy the latter’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis and team up once again, this time for a creditable set of Cole Porter covers

August 2021

  • Anything Goes at the Barbican.

    The week in theatre: Anything Goes; Changing Destiny – review

  • Robert Lindsay, Jack Wilcox, Sutton Foster, Haydn Oakley and Samuel Edwards in Anything Goes at the Barbican.

    Anything Goes review – Sutton Foster dazzles in Cole Porter’s fizzing tonic for our times

October 2019

  • ‘It took me two years to learn to walk again’ … Julio Iglesias in the 1980s.

    How we made
    Julio Iglesias: how we made Begin the Beguine

    ‘It was a hit with women. I like to flirt. What can I say?’

July 2019

  • Kiss Me Kate at The Watermill Theatre. Members of the cast. Photo Pamela Raith

    Kiss Me, Kate review – joyfully makes a virtue out of its limitations

    A multitalented cast bring gleeful spontaneity and big laughs to Paul Hart’s bold production, with choreography by Oti Mabuse

February 2019

  • Theresa May delivering a speech

    Brief letters
    Are Maybot’s speeches due an upgrade?

    Brief letters: Oldham Evening Chronicle | Best banned songs | Pearl Harbor | GPT2 | Jam first

December 2018

  • THE PRODUCERS Manchester Royal Exchange - Julius D'Silva (Max Bialystock) &amp; the Ensemble

    The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate review – rousing goose-stepping and toe tapping

  • Scorching choreography … Kiss Me, Kate at the Crucible, Sheffield.

    Kiss Me, Kate review – ferociously funny festive treat leaves a bitter taste

May 2018

  • Kiss Me Kate

    Kiss Me Kate review – the pinnacle of song-and-dance Shakespeare

    Opera North present a deft revival of the 1949 Cole Porter show mixing The Taming of the Shrew with showbiz shenanigans

February 2018

  • Katy Perry in 2008.

    Music blog
    It felt so right: I Kissed a Girl and the problematic lyrics artists attempted to disavow

    Katy Perry has expressed regret at the stereotypes peddled on her debut single. She’s not the only artist who has attempted to distance herself from badly aged material

November 2016

  • Bob Dylan

    Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter

    Dylan’s Nobel prize win sparked a debate about lyrics as literature. Here, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Johnny Marr, Naomi Alderman and others nominate songwriters whose verse has the power of poetry

July 2016

  • Tourists take a “selfie” in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris, France, July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

    A musical tour of Europe’s great cities: Paris

  • Magdalena Kožená mezzo soprano

    Magdalena Kožená review – mezzo misbehaves, gently, with Cole Porter

February 2016

  • Kiss Me Kate musical

Actors seen both on stage and backstage, Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France 

29 January 2016, commissioned for Guardian arts pages to go with Kim Willsher's piece on the show

DIRECTION LEE BLAKELEY , MUSICAL DIRECTION DAVID CHARLES ABELL , CHOREGRAPHER NICK WINSTON , LEAD ACTORS CHRISTINE BUFFLE AND DAVID PITTSINGER

    French-kiss Me Kate: Parisian theatre embraces Cole Porter

    With its series of extravagant and sophisticated shows, the Châtelet in France is casting English actors in American musical classics. The latest aims to match the Hollywood glamour of the 1940s

November 2015

  • The cast of Singin’ in the Rain rehearse at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

    From Broadway to France's boulevards: how Paris fell in love with musicals

    Director Jean-Luc Choplin explains how he led an English-language musical comedy revolution when he took the reins at Paris’s Châtelet theatre
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