Theatre

The ‘professional hoarders’ that have dressed everyone from Helen Mirren to Hugh Grant, and Madonna to Meryl Streep

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On London’s Holloway Road, an unassuming timber-clad building, once a garage, offers little hint of the treasures within. Behind the double doors lies an Aladdin’s cave of period costumes dating back to medieval times, as well as garments that form part of the owner’s private collection: a 400-year-old leather doublet, for example, and a dress … Read more

‘We couldn’t go around digging holes in existing graveyards for fear of exhuming a real body’: The man who brought The Thursday Murder Club to the big screen

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If you haven’t read The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman’s debut Sunday Times bestseller, then you are in the minority. The crime novel sold 45,000 copies in its first three days and has been a hit, spawning a whole book series — so it was no surprise when a film adaptation followed. Chris Columbus, the … Read more

Tuning in with the past: Monk music will ring out for the first time since the Dissolution after medieval manuscript is rediscovered

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Newly rediscovered music sung by medieval monks will echo mournfully through Buckland Abbey for the first time in five centuries. The Cistercian abbey in Devon’s Tavy Valley, which once thronged with resident ‘white monks’ (named for their undyed habits) and choirboys who sang for hours every day, in between farming and woodwork, has been silent … Read more