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Tuesday November 21 2023

Theatre

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Lon Chaney, centre, and Patsy Ruth Miller in the 1923 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Lon Chaney is a wonderful Quasimodo

From The Times: November 21, 1923

There is only one fault in the American film version of “The Hunchback of Notre...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.03am, The Times

THE TIMES DIARY

David Cameron gets his title shelved

Before donning his ermine to be greeted in the Lords as “right, trusty and well-beloved counsellor (delete as...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Sarah and Justin Savage: “We pinch ourselves every day”

‘We live above the theatre where we had our first date’

Little did Justin and Sarah Savage, now in their sixties, know when they met for a first date over coffee at...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Interview by Anna Derrig

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

Michael Caine: I’d love to see Coldplay again

The two-time Oscar-winning actor unveils his cultural favourites, from Catch-22 to Chicago and Cabaret.

My favourite...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.00am, The Times

William Bracewell, Gary Avis and Luca Acri in The Dante Project

FIRST NIGHT | DANCE

The Dante Project — stunning choreography, shame about the designs

★★★☆☆
The journey of the soul in the afterlife — through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven — is the subject of Wayne...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Adam McCoy and Lindzi Germain in The Scouse Dick Whittington

FIRST NIGHT | THEATRE

The Scouse Dick Whittington — fun, but too bawdy for the kids

★★★★☆
There are one too many “dick” jokes in this scouse version of the pantomime classic. Directed by the veteran...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Joss Ackland was nearly 60 when he landed his first big film role

Joss Ackland, Shakespearean actor with a mellifluous voice who channelled personal tragedy

As a child hunting for sixpences with his mother in the crevices of the sofa to fund an excursion to the cinema...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Seeking delights: Callum Balmforth as Kay, centre, with Jack Humphrey and Mae Munuo

I feel like a Grinch for not falling for this Christmas show

It’s only November, but the first The First Noël of the season has already arrived on stage. The RSC’s adaptation...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.13am, The Sunday Times

Dominic Maxwell

Something wicked: Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma in Macbeth

INTERVIEW | THEATRE

Ralph Fiennes: my Macbeth isn’t just for the bourgeois theatre crowd

When Ralph Fiennes gets going, there is something of the excited child about him. He bubbles over with passion, in...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Alan Cumming

MY CULTURAL FIRSTS

Alan Cumming: Kate Bush made me realise I wasn’t the only weirdo

Rather tragically, as a child I used to put on shows on my own in a shed. I had a crazy upbringing; there are...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Steeped in Shakespeare: Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, 1923

BOOKS | LITERATURE

The only two men to understand Virginia Woolf

In her celebrated essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf creates the figure of Shakespeare’s sister. “Judith...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Eric Cantona: “We cannot say that I have the voice of an opera singer, more the voice of a personnalité”

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Eric Cantona: ‘I don’t need mushrooms. I’m naturally psychedelic’

Eric Cantona has been serenading a tranquil audience in London for about 90 minutes when he finally decides to...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.00am, The Sunday Times

The actor Peter O’Toole frequented the Colony Room Club, which will reopen with prices from 2008

Soho club loved by O’Toole, Bacon and Bowie rekindles bohemian nights

A London club beloved by Peter O’Toole and Francis Bacon and celebrated for its “delectable depravity” has reopened...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Julian Clary: “It was only a matter of time before I eased myself into some chaps”

Pushing a dog in a buggy — I feel almost heterosexual

Whenever their schedules allow, the comedian Julian Clary and the actress Dame Joan Collins like to gather at her...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Ross Noble is on his 18th solo tour, called Jibber Jabber Jamboree

Five things to do in Scotland this week — from a high-octane circus to Ross Noble’s new show

Got a craving for “razor-sharp observations on things I haven’t thought through”? That’s what this freewheeling...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Sam Tutty as Dougal and Dujonna Gift as Robin on Soutra Gilmour’s revolving suitcases set

FIRST NIGHT | THEATRE

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) — good, gentle fun

★★★☆☆
What a tantalising near miss. Here’s a brisk chamber musical with lots of charm and impressive central...

Friday November 17 2023, 12.00pm, The Times

John Standing

FAME AND FORTUNE

John Standing: ‘My dad left me and my brother just £60 each’

Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet, better known as John Standing, has been appearing on stage, TV and the big...

Friday November 17 2023, 12.00pm, The Sunday Times

Watson as Dr Bartolo, with Janis Kelly as Marcellina, in the English National Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro at the London Coliseum in 2018

Keel Watson, one of Britain’s foremost black opera singers

As a student, Keel Watson was given a ticket to see a production of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride at the English...

Friday November 17 2023, 12.04am, The Times

Anthony (voiced by Ethan Smigel) and Leo (Adam Sandler) in the “buoyant” comedy

Leo — Adam Sandler’s lizard tale is a blast

★★★★☆
Charlotte’s Web, Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets and the Broadway musical Rent are just some of the...

Friday November 17 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Valery Gergiev, boss of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, is to become general director of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow too

The Bolshoi Ballet doesn’t need any of Gergiev’s glamour — it has plenty of its own

The news that Valery Gergiev, the autocratic boss of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, is to become general...

Thursday November 16 2023, 8.00pm, The Times