Actor Ian Gelder, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a notable supporting actor for decades at the National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company in the West End and leading fringe theatres, before finding fame playing Shakespeare’s brother Kevan Lannister on television. Tywin (Charles Dance), the fearsome patriarch plotting a Shakespearean power grab, in… Read More »
An outdoor show has an added excitement. The feeling that theater should always be this way; friendly, less formal, social; audience and artists together. And it’s all completely at the mercy of the weather. Nature plays an important role in this industry and will often determine programming and whether a show will go on. The… Read More »
This was supposed to be what Magneto called a “nostalgic parlor trick”; Reviving the X-Men cartoon, which aired on Saturday mornings for much of the ’90s, for the Disney+ streaming service. Isn’t that what all streaming services do? Scanning their back catalog to see what IPs are available to draw from, they promise both nostalgia… Read More »
Throughout the summer we’ll be taking the pulse of our most famous traditional seaside towns, examining the efforts being made to regenerate them and getting a feel for whether they’re still worth visiting. This week Rachel Mills explores Margate. Margate doesn’t feel like anywhere else in Britain right now. Pop into any bar, café or… Read More »
“Show your audience sympathy,” Daniel MacPherson says in the opening scene of The Woman in Black , and judging by crowd-pleasing dramaturgical mantras, that’s no bad thing. Minutes earlier, her co-star John Waters was alone on stage reading lines from a book. “It was 9.30am on Christmas Eve…” he mutters in a dry, monotonous and… Read More »
Enticingly affordable plane tickets often hide an inconvenient truth: Bringing nothing but the most modest backpacks onto the plane may incur an extra fee that wasn’t included in the initially promised fare. The increasing sophistication of cheap tickets has now spread to the contents of overhead lockers, with popular budget carriers such as Ryanair and… Read More »
“Bula!” It’s a scream that resounds throughout Nadi airport, but this time it’s directed at me. A huge Fijian looks at me with a megawatt smile, sweeps my bags like they’re fluff, and chats like an old friend before walking me to the waiting car. All visitors will soon learn that this is the case… Read More »
All hotels were independently reviewed and selected. If you book through the links below we will earn a commission but this never affects our rating. Our expert writers are often hosted free of charge to gain the first-hand experience they need to review. From flamingo-pink sand lapped by warm turquoise waters and golden bays framed… Read More »
Bath’s historic Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa is an institution in the World Heritage spa town: an award-winning spa centre, afternoon tea hotspot and jewel at the center of Bath’s famous Georgian crescent. It’s also right in the middle of the Bridgerton action, with excitement building for the fourth series: most of the scenes in… Read More »
I first lived in New Cross while studying at Central Saint Martins, then stayed with an art teacher and his three cats. It was a pretty old school setup but I loved it. I moved from rural Cumbria and it has become a home from home. I moved back last year to help my boyfriend… Read More »