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'The Column: London's Tricycle Theatre Butts Heads with Jewish Film Festival...and Why It's in the Wrong

Of all the international protests in the West over the Gaza war, many of them controversial--in my opinion many of them ill-informed--one which has caused more heartache and uproar than almost any other has been the Tricycle Cinema (also a famous fringe theatre in London) dropping the Jewish Film Festival. "Dropping?" The venue, and its artistic director Indhu Rubasingham, says no. They only required the JFF to give up its nominal funding from the Israeli embassy, and her theatre even offered to make up the difference.

By James Inverne

'The Column: Remembering the OTHER Oscar Hammerstein

August marks the death, 95 years ago, of a flamboyant and famous impresario. Who just happened to have a grandson who became more famous still.

By James Inverne
'The Column: Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014), Memories of the Master

James Inverne remembers Carlo Bergonzi--the tenor who may have been, in some ways, the greatest of them all.

By James Inverne

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'The Column: London's Tricycle Theatre Butts Heads with Jewish Film Festival...and Why It's in the Wrong

'The Column: Remembering the OTHER Oscar Hammerstein

'The Column: Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014), Memories of the Master

'The Column: When The BBC Turned Teacher, And Got It Right

'The Column: Where Are Today's Oscar-Happy Classical Composers?

'The Column: Ralph Vaughn Williams' 'The Lark Ascending Wins' Again, But Why?

'The Column: Will DreamCenter Shanghai Really Rival Broadway and the West End?

'The Column: Is the UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 Under Threat Now?

'The Column: Keep Calm and...Toi, Toi, Toi?

'The Column: All (or Most) Change in United Kingdom's Classical Music Scene?

'The Column: Renée Fleming's National Anthem at Superbowl XLVIII...What Controversy?

'The Column: The Crisis of the United States of America's Classical Recording Scene

'The Column: Are Live Broadcasts Good for Classical Music?

'The Short Column: Classical Music Benefits Kids, A(nother) Study Says

'The Column: Five Great Modern Operas That the New York Times Music Staff Missed!