Plaza Suite just swept into town headlined by Hollywood couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, but the actual headlines have been blaring that this is the most expensive show in London history, with top-price seats fetching an eye-watering 395 smackeroos. Our own thespian royalty were out in force for Sunday’s opening gala, from David … Read more
If you’re new to applying self-tanner, experts suggest testing a lighter-toned formula at first to minimize the look of potential mistakes, patches, and streaks. “Once you get used to using a classic shade and you wish to go darker, you will have the confidence to use the darkest formula,” self-tanning expert and St. Tropez brand … Read more
The Smile: Wall Of Eyes. Like a cheating husband, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are investing more energy on their ‘bit on the side’ than on Radiohead these days. This is the second album from the Paranoid Android stars, aided and abetted by drummer Tom Skinner and producer Sam Petts-Davies. And they’ve broadened their palette, including … Read more
So many operas end in the tragic death of a soprano, but the conclusion of Puccini’s La Bohème never fails to bring tears to my eyes. This is already the fifth revival of Richard Jones’ 2017 production of this opera and Keri-Lynn Wilson’s superbly sensitive conducting of the Covent Garden Orchestra brilliantly brings out the … Read more
“I don’t like goodbyes,” tearfully observes one of the characters in director Mahalia Belo’s horribly believable survival drama set in the aftermath of a catastrophic storm, which floods vast swathes of the UK and renders cities, including London, uninhabitable. Those farewells are never-ending in The End We Start From, adapted by screenwriter Alice Birch from … Read more
The kids are all right, it’s the teachers that require disciplinary measures in Alexander Payne’s eagerly awaited return to the director’s chair. The Holdovers arrives 20 years after the filmmaker and actor Paul Giamatti took a road trip through rolling Californian vineyards in the Oscar-winning comedy drama Sideways. Lightning strikes twice because their reunion is … Read more
If Marysia or Matouk created toilet paper, it would have scalloped edges — but, it turns out, Charmin dreamed up the luxe concept first. Per the brand’s website, this was a purely functional design update (five years in the works), not at all frivolous: “We reinvented the square [for the first time in 100 years], … Read more
In the end, Hewitt, Ireland, and the brand’s vice president of product development Jessica Abrams created a formula that is, in fact, dreamy in every sense of the word. It’s a lip oil, yes, but unlike others we’ve tried, it’s not too slick or too sticky. That’s not to say it doesn’t have great slip … Read more
Ballet always loves a devastating ‘girl done wrong’ story and Giselle set the template long before the Manons, Swan Lakes and Onegins to come. It also gave its tragic heroine agency, even in her devastation, that resonates just as powerfully today. It’s a mark of the remarkable range of this company that the ENB can … Read more
What goes up must come down. Sadly, F Gary Gray’s high-altitude action thriller hits dramatic turbulence and goes into a tailspin during a preposterous opening sequence set in Venice, which establishes the light-fingered credentials of criminal Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart) and his five-strong crew, who profess to “rescue works of art from undeserving owners”. Interpol … Read more
