๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Dance,Stage,Culture,Sadler's Wells,Nico Muhly ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: IIf you think we've exhausted the shows that have been postponed due to Covid, here's another one. The Composer Series at Sadler's Wells presents a night of new choreography by one composer and this time it is the turn of American Nico Muhly, who is no stranger to the world of dance.Three different choreographers handle his music: Jules Cunningham, Maud Le Bladec, and Michael Keegan-Dolan. The first two have a broadly similar approach. The dance listens closely to the…
โจ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Teen books,Young adult,Books,Culture ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: 'The Street Where Santa Lives' by Harriet Howe and Julia Christians, Little Tiger, ยฃ12.99When an old man moves into a crowded street, only his young neighbor notices him; With his white beard and round belly, she is convinced he is Santa. But when Santa gets sick, the other neighbors must rally around to take care of him. Will it be better in time for Christmas? Sweet, funny, and keenly observed, this picture book is a joyful, joyful celebration of…
๐ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Music,Culture ๐ก Main takeaway: from (Darlington, County Durham).Recommended if you like Blood Orange, Dean Plant, Elliott Smiththe next The Dirt Pt 1 EP is available nowAs the Internet spreads underground artists like mouthwash, it's becoming harder to separate the visionaries from the hackers. But Pollyfromthedirt's sinuous pastoral pop demands more than just a passing pass. Released independently this week, the County Durham native's debut EP collides brass band samples, quivering MIDI strings and eerie acoustic guitar together. There's a trace of Elliot Smith in his grey-toned songwriting,…
๐ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Arthur Conan Doyle,Musicals,Andrew Lloyd Webber,Tim Rice,Birmingham Rep,Christmas shows,Christmas ๐ Main takeaway: A A serial killer working through the alphabet (Agatha Christie's ABC Murders) or Catholicism's list of the most serious sins (David Fincher's Seven) gives momentum to the plot and gives viewers the pleasure of anticipating who or what might be next.This is amusingly the case in a Birmingham Christmas show, where a seasonally murderous bad actor (in the police sense, not the theatrical sense) annihilates people in keeping with the 18th-century song โThe 12 Days of…
๐ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Pop and rock,Dance,Music,Stage,Culture,Television,Entertainment TV,Eurovision,Television & radio,Assisted dying ๐ Main takeaway: WWhen Dean Martin announced the Kessler sisters' appearance on his show in 1966, he noted that he was desperate to book them not only because the German-born dancers and singers were "so beautiful and so talented," but "also because they're twins, so that means there's two of them." โThey're a couple, and there's nothing I love more than a couple,โ he added, referring to his half-drunk diva character.The sisters, who died by joint suicide earlier this week,…
โจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Art and design,Sculpture,Art,Culture ๐ก Key idea: toLet's say you're a Turner Prize-winning sculptor, with over 50 years in the game. One restless night, you get an idea. You can make them in your studio and send them to the foundry to be cast in bronze. Finally, you're ready to show it to the world, but the first person to walk through the gallery doors barely glances at it before taking a selfie with it. What do you do? Mind you, you're Tony Cragg, the Royal Academician, and…
๐ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Spooks,Game of Thrones,Wolf Hall,Blue Lights,The Sopranos,Drama,Game of Thrones: season one ๐ Key idea: Talk about being a pantomime villain. Itโs unpopular enough playing the antagonist who murders a long-running TV character. When your victim is a fan favourite, though, you risk being vilified even more. So whatโs it like being the ultimate baddy and breaking viewersโ hearts? Do they get booed in the street or trolled online? We asked five actors who killed off beloved characters โ from Spooks to The Sopranos, Wolf Hall to…
๐ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Musicals,West End,Back To The Future,Film โ
Key idea: Audiences of the West End musical Back to the Future will see three actors play Marty McFly in one evening next month.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original film release, two of the musical's former lead actors, Ollie Dobson and Ben Joyce, will return to share the part with its current star, Caden Brauch, on December 3 at the Adelphi Theatre. The show will start with Joyce in the role of the time-traveling teenager before Brauch takes over…
๐ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Film,Avatar,James Cameron,Science fiction and fantasy films,Culture ๐ก Key idea: IIt's almost possible to feel a little sorry for Colonel Miles Quaritch, the main villain of Avatar. Imagine: First you're sent light years away from Earth to hang out with hippies in 14-foot blue space, and then you suddenly die. You are then revived as a hippie in a 14-foot blue space. And now, according to James Cameron, you may just be starting to realize that those giant, tree-hugging nerds you spent two movies trying to erase…
๐ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Pop and rock,Music,Culture,Dua Lipa,Justin Bieber ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: gOn, the 2015 debut album by Los Angeles-born Canadian musician Tobias Jesso Jr., was one of the revelations of the 2000s. An album of honest, earnest songs in the style of 1970s singer-songwriters like Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, it instantly established Jisoo as a rising indie star and was one of the most popular records of the year. The problem was that Jisoo didn't care much for attention: he struggled to feel like a real performer,…
