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This month I’m launching Backgrounders, a monthly illustrated intensive look into a person or event in the arts news that I don’t have space for on Ruth Leon’s Theatrewise. Please let me know if you’d like to receive Backgrounders. There […]

The US president has agreed to host the 2025 Kennedy Center honors. Usually there is one token classical or opera recipient – Martha Argerich, Renee Fleming or the like.   Not this year. The 2025 […]

The only man ever to be titled creative director at the BBC, Alan Yentob held editorial control of serious arts on television. Yentob, who has died of oesophigal cancer at the age of 78, made […]