VIRGINIA Gay’s gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, an irreverent rom-com, is a hoot if a little rough around the edges. Cyrano (Gay), a queer woman, has a charming way ...

MATTHEW Bourne’s iconic 1995 production of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake helped cement his career. Almost 30 years later, his version continues to delight audiences. Inspired by German and Russian ...

CHRISTMAS traditions start somewhere – whether it’s the Victorians’ idea of sending each other cards, or the Germanic concept of decorating a pine tree, what feels like timeless practices have their ...

NOT sure if you saw all of Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Everton at the weekend, but the cliché that they could have played all night and not scored was probably applicable. The strategy seems to have been ...

IN recent weeks this column has been ambushed by Messiahs – it’s a seasonal hazard – but one more you need to know about, being arguably the prize example, is the performance by Polyphony with the Age ...

THERE is little secret what most Arsenal fans want this Christmas, with a world-class striker yet again at the top of their wishlist. Gooners have been crying out for a formidable forward for well ...

THE final round of fixtures of 2024 in the Women’s Super League fell in Arsenal’s favour at the weekend as they closed the gap on their title rivals. Alessia Russo scored for the fifth league game in ...

NAKED fear is a cruel mistress. Your pulse rate quickens, your head swims, your palms begin to sweat, your pupils dilate and the fight-or-flight mechanism starts to kick in – let’s face it, MR James ...

COMMENT: Taxing the super-profitable is not anti-business. A well-structured tax on mega-corporations, tied directly to local councils for housing repairs, could transform lives ‘Ordinary people pay ...

• WHO in Camden Council is going to take responsibility for the £650,000 paid out over 10 years to various consultancy firms for “planning” with regard to the Queen’s Crescent “regeneration” against a ...

A MUSEUM in Clerkenwell has been nominated for the national Family Friendly Museum award. For the second time, the Museum of the Order of St John was shortlisted for a prize given by the Kids in ...

• NEIL, Lord Kinnock is quite correct to describe the two-child cap on benefits as “appalling”, (Lord Kinnock: You can’t always say what you want to do ­– that’s part of leading a political party, ...