🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Dance,Ballet,Nederlands Dans Theater,Festivals,Netherlands,Philip Glass,Devendra Banhart,Kronos Quartet,Laurie Anderson,Steve Reich,Culture,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau’s Horses but it’s not exactly Singin’ in the Rain. The mood is more like a stray dog has sidled up to that lamp-post and cocked its leg. The lamps multiply on these squalid, mean streets: uprooted, they become giant props for performers to illuminate and edit the action on a vast stage with its wings exposed and no artificial backdrop. A suspicious figure roams…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,York,Culture,Holocaust,Antisemitism ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CDo we really learn from history? That's the question hanging over Catherine Dyson's The Last Portrait – which was first shared in a rehearsed reading at York Theater Royal as part of the RSC's 37 Plays initiative in 2023 and is now receiving a full production. It is a piece that constantly moves between past and present, testing the empathic capacities and limits of theater as an art form.There is a touch of Tim Crouch in Dyson's writing, which invites the…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Gary DalySinger, songwriterEd and I had just come off a long tour of Europe and North America supporting Simple Minds and needed a break. I immersed myself in making music with a synth, drums and a four-track Tascam Portastudio. Brian Eno has inspired me a lot. I've seen the phrase "Voices Found" in the credits of his album. The idea that any sound could be included in a recording struck me as magical. I just took a microphone out my bedroom…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: English National Opera (ENO),Classical music,Opera,Music,Culture,Manchester,UK news,Greater Manchester,London 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AEndre de Ridder is either brave or stupid. He has accepted the role of music director of the English National Opera – its principal conductor and keeper of its musical flame. He will officially take up the role in 2027. The position has been vacant for several agonizing years, due to a 2022 Arts Council England announcement that the company would lose all its funding unless it moved out of London. Amid a backlash that, in…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The work exploring what happens when trauma is left to fester, set in Belfast in the Troubles, has won the 2025 Women's Prize for Playwriting.The judges praised what they described as the consistent and poignant writing in Sapling by Georgina Duncan, a working-class playwright from Lancashire.Eli Keel, founding director of the award, said: “Sapling is the rare kind of play that producers dream of discovering and audiences long to see: captivating, bold and deeply moving. Georgie’s writing is full of…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Margot Robbie,Emerald Fennell,Jacob Elordi,Martin Clunes,Film adaptations,Emily Brontë,Books,Culture,Romance films,Romance books,Drama films,Charli xcx,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eMerald Fennell revitalizes camp as she reinvents Emily Brontë's tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on a windswept Yorkshire moor in a fashionable 20-page spread of relentless silliness, with shells being ripped to shreds and a smack of raunchy BDSM. Margot Robbie's Cathy at one point secretly heads to the moor for a hilarious amount of self-indulgence – although, sadly, there are no boldly intercut scenes of Heathcliff, played by Jacob Elordi, in…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ruby appears in the first of many red and white dresses, and her performance is sublime, portraying Cathy as unruly and selfish but with a conscience and innocence beneath her sense of entitlement. And she forgets her age. Vinyl simply makes the characters older. Mr. Earnshaw even says, "I'm already over spinsterhood." Elordi embodies Heathcliff's dashing, bad-boy energy, even when he's stuck with a scraggly wig. Heathcliff is more than just a shirtless, sweaty man, although he often is. Elordi reveals how defensive and…
💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,US news,Super Bowl,Music,Culture,Puerto Rico,Donald Trump,Piers Morgan,Kacey Musgraves,Doechii,Gavin Newsom,Tom Brady,Super Bowl LX 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: "The only thing stronger than hate is love."It was the lasting statement from the 13-minute scene that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with rich references to Puerto Rican politics, history and culture. Artist born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio has…
✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Family films,Comedy films,Basketball,Stephen Curry,Comedy,Culture,Golden State Warriors,NBA,Sport,US sports ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gLatest of all time? No, maybe not even the greatest half term. This loud, chaotic, and unlikeable animated comedy feels verging on artificial intelligence, algorithmically generated and instantly familiar from Zootropolis, Sing, and other films featuring talking animals. It's a shame, because he takes inspiration from real life: basketball star Stephen Curry, who was repeatedly told early in his career that he was too skinny and too small to be a pro. Carrey is…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Phantom Thread,Melania Trump,Paul Thomas Anderson,Jonny Greenwood,Music,Culture,Film,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, the director and composer, respectively, of Phantom Thread, have asked for music from the 2017 film to be removed from the controversial new documentary about Melania Trump.“We have learned that a piece of music from Phantom Thread was used in Melania's documentary,” the couple said in a statement to Variety. "While Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny regarding this…
