The book explores some of the darker sides of the beauty industry while recognizing the ways in which beauty has been a ...

The Line of Beauty is already a sell-out success at the Almeida - Johan Persson Hollinghurst conjures the political – the haves and have-nots of Thatcher’s Britain – through the personal. The Feddens ...

An award-winning LGBTQ novel, adapted for the stage by playwright of the moment Jack Holden (Cruising; Kenrex)... It sounds like a surefire hit for the Almeida, and sure enough, the entire run is ...

Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty is considered alongside The Normal Heart and Angels in America to be one of the seminal queer texts confronting the AIDS pandemic. It won the Man Booker Prize in ...

The intriguing thing about Alan Hollinghurst’s best-selling 2004 novel, The Line Of Beauty, is that it swings both ways. Quite properly, it wants to have its cake and eat it, in the story of a young ...

How can Eighties excess in Thatcher's Britain, gay awakenings and AIDS be so dull? The Line of Beauty at The Almeida is a huge disappointment. If I want to watch posh 80s Tories braying with careless ...

Although it deals with the Aids crisis and with class, Alan Hollinghurst’s lofty survey of 80s Britain plays more like a comedy on stage than it does on the page. Partly it’s because the offline, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As we deal with our own polarised age, perhaps it’s no wonder that the 1980s, that decade of wilful excess, is ...

Michael Grandage’s adaptation paints a portrait of a political elite that’s updated its shoulderpads – but not its values (Johan Persson) Director Michael Grandage and writer Jack Holden’s pacy ...

Champagne, cocaine and Thatcher bopping to Bronski Beat – this stage version of the 2004 Booker-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst gleams with the gaudy allure of 1980s excess. Adapted by Jack Holden ...