Bruce Robinson has written a stage adaptation of his cult 1987 film Withnail And I - a tragicomedy that evokes the end of an era as the 60s give way to 70s and dreams collide with reality in the lives of the two main characters. The play has just opened at the Birmingham Rep, directed by Sean Foley. Both of them talk about the challenges of adapting and staging a much loved classic and the degree to which it needed to remain true to the original.
Now You See Us - an exhibition spanning 400 years of women in art - opens at Tate Britain this week. Art critic Charlotte Mullins and art historian and biographer Frances Spalding give their verdict on how the collection represents the pioneers from Angelica Kauffman to Laura Knight.
Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction
The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024
Colm Tóibín, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project
Review: Big Cigar on AppleTV, Elton John’s photos at V&A, animated/live action film If
John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes
Damian Barr on Maggie & Me, Italian neorealist film, A.I. and Fake Art
La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed
Sir Stephen Hough, Arab Strap, can authors make money?
Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven’s 9th, literary editing
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films
Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding
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