The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81. He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark […]
After a rather ho-hum start to the year, there ended up being many, many wonderful new releases – many fully deserving a “Best of the Year” accolade. And even though there were lots of fair-to-middlin’ […]
From my appreciation of the great pianist in the new issue of The Critic: He worked so hard to appear normal. A tall man, Alfred Brendel cultivated a stoop to meet people at their level. […]