Travel & Culture
- The Guardian
The week in theatre: Maryland; The Tragedy of Macbeth; White Noise
The week in theatre: Maryland; The Tragedy of Macbeth; White Noise. Royal Court Upstairs; Almeida; Bridge, LondonLucy Kirkwood’s raw response to the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard captures a moment of terrible rage. And Saoirse Ronan commands as Lady Macbeth
- The Guardian
Dance Umbrella: Extra Time; Nowhere review – a game of two halves
Dance Umbrella: Extra Time; Nowhere review – a game of two halves. Bell Square, Hounslow; available onlineDance Umbrella’s football-themed piece fails to score, but Dimitris Papaioannou’s 2009 work saves the day
- The Guardian
Gandhi in heels? Maria Callas statue hits the wrong note
Gandhi in heels? Maria Callas statue hits the wrong noteCritics compare figure of famous soprano erected in Greek capital to an Oscar statuette The sculpture stands opposite the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in a small park close to the Acropolis of Athens. Photograph: Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Shutterstock
- The Guardian
The week in classical: Fidelio; Gabriela Montero – review
The week in classical: Fidelio; Gabriela Montero – review Glyndebourne, Lewes; Kings Place, LondonThe introduction of a new character does Beethoven’s great opera no favours. Elsewhere, there’s breathtaking invention – with a little help from Charlie Chaplin ‘The visuals spin and lurch and confuse’: Glyndebourne Tour’s Fidelio, with Callum Thorpe, Adam Smith, Dorothea Herbert and Dingle Yandell. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith
- The Guardian
Road review – community spirit turns sour in Thatcher’s Britain
Road review – community spirit turns sour in Thatcher’s BritainNorthern Stage, NewcastleLittle leavens the air of hopelessness in Jim Cartwright’s 1986 collage of awkwardly staged monologues As though we are peering into a studio theatre … Road at Northern Stage. Photograph: Wasi Daniju
- The Guardian
Bill for family days out at some UK attractions ‘almost doubles’
Bill for family days out at some UK attractions ‘almost doubles’. From Carlisle Castle to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, study highlights hefty rises since 2016
The GuardianFrom stargazing with the Mabo family to colonial artefacts, reappropriated: inside Tarnanthi 2021
From stargazing with the Mabo family to colonial artefacts, reappropriated: inside Tarnanthi 2021. Art Gallery of South Australia, AdelaideFestival puts the colourful and the uncomfortable of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on show
- The Guardian
‘I’m going to start bawling’: families plan their reunions as NSW abandons arrivals cap
‘I’m going to start bawling’: families plan their reunions as NSW abandons arrivals cap. Surprise announcement that NSW would allow quarantine-free entry to vaccinated travellers was the news many families had been desperate to hear
- The Guardian
Atta Kwami obituary
Atta Kwami obituaryPainter, printmaker and sculptor whose colourful work drew on the vernacular art of his native Ghana Atta Kwami in Kumasi, where he taught for almost two decades and had a studio. Photograph: Serpentine Maria Lassnig Foundation/Theo Miller
- The Guardian
Frieze, phones and avant garde fashion – the week in art
Frieze, phones and avant garde fashion – the week in art. The Frieze art fair is in full swing in Regent’s Park, Martin Boyce is on the blower in Glasgow and Lucy McKenzie is playing tricks on the eye in Liverpool – all in your weekly dispatch
- Yahoo Life UK
Yahoo is helping Black artists enter the NFT digital art world
A Black art gallery based in South London will be using NFT technology to create art under the tutelage of Yahoo's specialists.
- Evening Standard
Fully vaccinated UK travellers can visit the US from November 8
This will end the blanket ban on foreign travellers from entering the country introduced by then-president Donald Trump in March 2020.
- The Telegraph
Travel to Singapore: latest Covid rules and practical guidance
With 93 per cent of its population fully vaccinated and new cases hovering around 3,000 daily, Singapore is cautiously reopening to the world as part of its declared intention to “live with Covid”.
- The Telegraph
Branson risks being eclipsed by billionaire rivals in the space race
When Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, fired 90-year-old William Shatner into space on Wednesday, it was able to grab the bragging rights and headlines for taking Star Trek’s “Captain Kirk” into orbit.
- Evening Standard
London’s best townhouse hotels
The capital is in the throes of a love affair with townhouse hotels. Suzannah Ramsdale selects the best
- Evening Standard
US ‘will allow fully vaccinated British travellers from next month’ as President Biden lifts travel ban
The White House is weighing up November 8 as a possible date for reopening
- The Telegraph
Travel to the UK: latest advice for overseas arrivals
International visitors arriving in England from overseas are subject to, for the most part, the same rules as UK residents – if they were immunised in a country with a vaccine programme recognised by our Government.
- The Telegraph
A country-by-country guide to half-term testing rules
Our holiday map has opened up with the culling of the red list to just seven destinations and the relaxation of testing rules for fully vaccinated adults (and under-18s).
- The Guardian
‘We know they can do it when it suits them’: theatre became more accessible during Covid. Will it last?
‘We know they can do it when it suits them’: theatre became more accessible during Covid. Will it last?. Doors may be open again, but some theatres remain inaccessible for disabled audiences. Online performances have helped – but many have already stopped streaming
- The Guardian
The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hell
The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hellRoyal Opera House, LondonThe Divine Comedy is brilliantly reimagined by McGregor with music by Thomas Adès, sets by Tacita Dean and a poetic send-off for Edward Watson Devilish … Edward Watson as Dante behind Fumi Kaneko as Satan in Inferno: Pilgrimfrom The Dante Project by Wayne McGregor, Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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The Good Life review – self-sufficiency sitcom loses the plot on stage
The Good Life review – self-sufficiency sitcom loses the plot on stageTheatre Royal BathThe much-loved TV series becomes a series of set-pieces rather than a satisfying drama in this stage adaptation A thankless task … (from left) Nigel Betts, Rufus Hound and Sally Tatum as Barbara Good. Photograph: Dan Tsantilis
- The Telegraph
Billionaire skyscraper residents in New York sue for $125m, claiming they are trapped in a nightmare
The billionaire residents of 432 Park Avenue – the world’s tallest residential tower, when it was built in 2015 – must rue the day they bought into the pinnacle of Manhattan’s super-skinny, sky-high living.
- Yahoo Life UK
Where are Britain's spookiest castles? Here's the hauntings to head for this Halloween
Grey ladies and crying children: the scariest historical Halloween spots.
- The Guardian
Amazônia in concert review – bringing the sights and sounds of the Amazon to life
Amazônia in concert review – bringing the sights and sounds of the Amazon to life. Barbican, LondonSebastião Salgado’s photographs of the rainforest combined with music with Amazonian connections in this powerful and moving concert featuring the Britten Sinfonia under Simon Menezes
- The Telegraph
US to lift travel ban for fully vaccinated Britons on November 8
The US is to reopen transatlantic flights with Britain on Nov 8 as Joe Biden lifts the 18-month ban on UK travellers.
- The Telegraph
The insider guide to the most secret Caribbean island of them all
There are few places in the world where the greatest hazard on the roads is presented by copulating tortoises. But on the island of Mustique, during the hot and humid days of summer, they are such a feature that the publishing magnate and island regular, Felix Dennis, erected a giant statue of a couple mid-coitus on the island’s main crossroads.