What pays for North Korea’s nuclear programme – not to mention Kim Jong-Un’s cars, yachts, 1,000-seat luxury cinema, $1 million annual consumption of alcohol, etc? North Korea’s domestic economy can’t provide this kind of wealth…
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass is not the sort of thing its name suggests or something you could do in church. It isn’t liturgy, it’s music-theatre, written in exuberantly big, brash, heart-on-sleeve terms for a cast of hundreds who are usually young people – as they were last week at the Festival Hall, in a performance conducted by Marin Alsop that involved the National Youth Orchestra with cohorts of community choirs, dancers, marching bands and all…
I went to see A Quiet Place, John Krasinski’s new thriller, with absolutely no anticipation of finding theological or spiritual themes…
Henrietta Maria’s broken dream