Tom Stoppard: a beloved and monumental literary figure Letters: Readers reflect on the playwright’s life and legacy The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025
The week in theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Little Foxes; The Invention of Love – review Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024
The Invention of Love review – Simon Russell Beale yearns from the underworld The quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard’s play The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2024
Wendy Cope: ‘When people rudely ask the secret to getting poems published? Get better at writing’ The ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ poet shares the book that surprised her the most, the best thing a reader ever said to her, and the few films she thinks are – almost – better than the book The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2024
February is LGBTQ+ history month: here are 10 of the best places to celebrate it This year’s event is themed on queer contributions to cinema, with screenings, museum tours, talks and exhibitions from Glasgow to Margate The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023
Kremlin by the Cam and recruiting in a gay cruising ground: Ungentle’s secret history of sex and spying Ben Whishaw guides us through a rich, beautifully filmed tour of two covert and overlapping worlds of Britain’s recent past The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2022
Classical home listening: Nicky Spence’s On Wenlock Edge; the Belcea Quartet The Scottish tenor’s rousing take on Vaughan Williams’s AE Housman-inspired cycle; and the foursome-turned-sextet do justice to Brahms’s early works The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2022