Nothing beats the sound of a theatergoer suddenly (and volubly) waking up to snap a forgivably dozy house to attention, as was proved rather more dramatically than a certain British thesp might have ...

The search for an earthly paradise has been underway since us humans were kicked out of the proverbial garden. Whether it’s Coleridge’s opium-induced revelry in Xanadu, or Homer’s musings on Elysium, ...

WHERE do you find paradise on a map? To the modern eye, used to the cheap and functional cartography of roads and frontiers, the very question is absurd. Maps show real things, not imaginary ones. You ...

Sparkling black comedy “An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes” chronicles the adventures of a Czech mother and her two daughters in the wake of the 1968 Russian invasion, capturing the euphoria of the ...

Love among the artists is always a good dramatic theme. And Peter Whelan, an undervalued craftsman, has conjured an entertaining play out of a curious Pre-Raphaelite ménage à trois. But, while I ...

The domestic lives of artists from Stanley Spencer to Vincent van Gogh have propelled such plays as Pam Gems’ Stanley and Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton to compelling illustrations on how their ...