Everything about it looks as if it has delved deep into the clichés of another age
Australia
Theatre
Small is better and sometimes beautiful when it comes to this scaled-down, intimate version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
Sunset Boulevard
Restaurants
Canteen looks so much the part. The owners stress that they take design as seriously as they do food
Canteen Baker Street
Without doubt THE worst film I can remember seeing in many a year
The entire cast give outstanding performances that had the audience in tears of sorrow and laughter
It is sheer joy from start to finish. Especially the dancing skeletons
Who do the experts consider to be the actor, dancer, playwright or conductor at the very top of their game? We asked our critics to give their highly subjective views... more | Add your view
A subtle and surprising survey makes a useful introduction to the contemporary art of the booming subcontinent in Indian Highway. .. more | Add your review
In the V&A's costume court, the Magnificence of the Tsars show is deeply satisfying. Even better, every garment is for a man... more | Add your review
Two middle-aged transsexuals and an unrelated, seemingly disturbed young woman called Nicole feature in Katy Grannan's exhibition... more | Add your review
Fantastic offers at top London restaurants - get up to
50% off your meal
Visit our exclusive running channel, brought to you with
Mitchum antiperspirants
Babylon: Myth and Reality seeks to revise the view of the ancient city as a nest of sin and remind us of its claims to greatness... more | Add your review
Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. .. more | Add your review
Dispersion fulfils one of the criteria laid down for the ICA by its co-founder, Herbert Read, in 1965: to be “an adult play centre”... more | Add your review
Get 30 days FREE unlimited DVD rental with free postage and no late fees -
sign up here
The fashion for Dutch and Flemish masters has waned in the past half century. Bruegel to Rubens reminds us of the odd riches we now overlook... more | Add your review
Bob Dylan: Thin Wild Mercury exhibition is at Proud Central Gallery and all through the collection the singer is mostly effortlessly cool... more | Add your review
A Grand Tourist with an eye for excellence would have bought a view of modern Rome by Vanvitelli rather than a Canaletto... more | Add your review
It is not a joke to describe Alfred Sisley as the English Impressionist, for Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Cézanne were his friends... more | Add your review
To do his subjects justice, photographer Robert Capa insisted on being close enough to be killed. Brian Sewell is impressed by his exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery... more | Add your review
In Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, the visitor searches in vain through the twilight to discover anything that even Warhol himself would have regarded as art, says Brian Sewell... more | Add your review
Quietly surprising, the Jerwoods always encapsulate new trends at photography's border with fine art... more | Add your review
If we are to keep the masterpiece that is Titian in Britain, the deadline for raising the £50m needed is 31 December... more | Add your review
In the same gallery as some of the most expensive shoots in history are images by little-known photographers for the 15th Photographic Portrait Prize... more | Add your review
As environments melt and burn, and their inhabitants come under threat, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year images are reminders of the riches in peril... more | Add your review
A thousand years of Byzantine history have been crammed into the Royal Academy – but visitors looking for the wow factor will need to travel further, says Brian Sewell... more | Add your review
A small exhibition gathers Lucian Freud’s early paintings to trace his development – but it doesn’t tell the whole story, says Brian Sewell... more | Add your review
The spirit soars at the sight of so many masterpieces in the National Gallery's new show of Renaissance portraits, says Brian Sewell.. more | Add your review
This year we've got a bog standard line-up of B-listers and too many Americans, says Bruce Dessau
Video has emerged of Russell Brand allegedly inserting a toy doll up his bottom
After watching Angus Deayton at the British Comedy Awards, all is forgiven
-4°c
2°c
