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ReviewFilm
Dalíland — Ben Kingsley is touchingly agonised as the Surrealist maestro
...(Ezra Miller briefly, and not a little ludicrously, appears in flashback as young Salvador, dragged up like Valentino in The Sheik.)...
October 12, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Drawn from Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 novel, with a script by Lynn Nottage, music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, it’s a timely, knotty story following two women on the run....
April 27, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Brazilian politics
Lula sets out expansive vision for Brazilian foreign policy
...For Celso Amorim, Lula’s top foreign policy adviser, the speech in Sharm el-Sheik was a clear signal that Brazil was ready to be more ambitious in its foreign policy agenda. “It has started already....
November 24, 2022
ReviewFashion shows
Valentino pays spectacular tribute to its heritage with a show of beauty in Rome
...More than anything else, Garavani was known for a faultless elegance — he was christened by industry journal WWD the “Sheik of Chic”, and his fastidious personal style was always as precise as his couture...
July 11, 2022
Film
Cannes divides opinion with Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness
...Best Screenplay was awarded to another Swede, Tarik Saleh, for Boy From Heaven, a satisfying conspiracy thriller set within a prestigious Islamic school in Cairo that plays like All the Sheik’s Men....
May 30, 2022
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: jewellery 2022
Glitter and gold of the red carpet
...Art Contemporain and the many serendipitous — and orchestrated — cameo appearances of Cartier’s pieces in movies, from Rudolph Valentino wearing his historically inaccurate Tank watch in The Son of the Sheik...
June 20, 2022
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewTheatre
Spring Awakening — a musical that still feels fresh and urgent
...Multiple generations later they are back in Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s 2006 rock-musical version, and what’s striking about Rupert Goold’s terrific new staging is how fresh and true these characters...
December 22, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — a new musical struggles to replicate the wit of the 1969 film
...Her persona also suits the mellow, lounge-music style of Duncan Sheik’s songs (Amanda Green co-wrote the lyrics), which seem reminiscent of Stan Getz and Burt Bacharach (whose “What the World Needs Now”...
February 6, 2020
ReviewTheatre
The Secret Life of Bees — Elizabeth Teeter shines in Sam Gold’s tarnished production
...The balance between Duncan Sheik’s numbers (with lyrics by Susan Birkenhead) and Lynn Nottage’s book also skews too heavily towards the latter....
June 14, 2019
Theatre to watch in New York
Alice by Heart — a sophisticated musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll set during the Blitz
...The numbers (scored by Duncan Sheik, with lyrics by Steven Sater) sound quite humdrum at first, but grow in sophistication as Sheik introduces more jazz and blues rhythms....
February 27, 2019
The Aesthete
Moynat artistic director Ramesh Nair on vintage port, Tokyo vinyl and his obsession with mangoes
...Via dei Neri 15R, 50122 Florence (contemporecords.it) The last music I bought was Frank Zappa’s album Sheik Yerbouti. I got into him when I was in the most rebellious part of my life....
October 23, 2018
Syrian crisis
UK urged to ‘take responsibility’ for captured jihadis
...British officials appear to have relinquished responsibility for two alleged extemists — El Shafee El Sheik and Alexanda Kotey — who are being held in a “detention location” in Syria....
February 13, 2018
FT AlphavilleDan McCrum
London has a glut of posh homes for sale
...Sheiks and oligarchs have their pick of London's mansions, penthouses and townhouses before they even think about living in the sky above London Bridge....
February 9, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
American Psycho, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York — ‘Never truly shocks’
...Sheik’s songs are less impressive....
April 24, 2016
Life & Arts
On location: Ben-Hur
...The life of Jesus Christ (Rodrigo Santoro) weaves through the storyline while Morgan Freeman takes on the role of Ben-Hur’s wise old benefactor, Sheik Ilderim....
September 2, 2016
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
Strikes don’t have to be impolite, Kuwaiti oil workers edition
...by oil workers in Kuwait: After striking earlier in the week over public sector pay reform, “Oil workers have decided to end their three-day strike on Tuesday “in appreciation of his Highness the Amir Sheik...
April 20, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Spring Awakening, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York — review
...Performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken English, the actors, directed by Michael Arden, bring a gestural elegance to match the ballads in Duncan Sheik’s mainstream rock score....
September 29, 2015
World
Saudi Arabia executes prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr
...Demonstrators carrying pictures of Sheik Nimr faced security forces in a stand-off in the Shia Muslim village of Abu-Saiba, west of the capital Manama, Reuters reported....
January 2, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Apple iPhone 6S launched amid questions about sales
...The first to pick up the new smartphone in London was Sam Sheik, who began camping outside the store on Monday evening and who was also the first in London to collect the iPhone 6 last year....
September 25, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Jason Moran: All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller – review
...understated vocals work a treat on “Ain’t Misbehaving” and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business”, the brass arrangements are hip, and the pianist consistently works his jangly left-field magic – the genre-mashing medley of “Sheik...
September 12, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
A Man’s a Man, Classic Stage Company, New York – review
...Why this staging, which uses a standard translation by Gerhard Nellhaus and incorporates new music by Duncan Sheik, misfires has something to do with the casting....
January 30, 2014
Somaliland
Peace and prehistory in Somaliland
...It offers a week’s trip to Somaliland, visiting Berbera, Hargeisa, the Laas Geel caves and Sheik, from £2,150 per person, including a private vehicle and guide, full-board accommodation and drinks Photographs...
June 26, 2015
Global Economy
Liberia declares emergency measures to contain Ebola outbreak
...Dr Sheik Humarr Khan, who had been in quarantine in hospital, died less than a week after his diagnosis was announced. Liberia also announced the compulsory cremation of all victims of the virus....
July 30, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
American Psycho, Almeida Theatre, London – review
...Duncan Sheik augments his own 15 numbers with half a dozen 1980s standards (kicking off cheekily with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”)....
December 13, 2013
Pharmaceuticals sector
Sierra Leone declares Ebola virus public health emergency
...Dr Sheik Humarr Khan, who had been in quarantine in hospital, died less than a week after his diagnosis was announced....
July 31, 2014

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