A year ago, after a deeply disappointing Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire, I wrote here that English Touring Opera had often excelled in the past, and would do so again. The company hasn’t taken long ...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our screens ...

Hinds don't believe in God. They declared this as they surveyed the converted church that is St Luke's, and given the past ...

In 1964, the Norwegian division of Philips Records began issuing singles labelled “Bergen Beat.” The picture sleeves of 45s by Davy Dean and the Swinging Ballades, Sverre Faaberg and the Young Ones, ...

Longlegs’ trapdoor ending snapped tight on its clammy Lynchian atmosphere and themes, reconfiguring its Silence of the Lambs ...

Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising Jonathan Bailey ...

Just like Britain’s ‘stiff upper lip’, that indominable spirit in the face of adversity, Brazil has a dominant personality ...

Imagine: you take your seat at the best restaurant in town, the waiter arrives with a flourish to fill your water glass, you ...

The date, projected behind the stage before a word is spoken, is a clue - 14th April 1912. “Why so specific?” was my first ...

Cry sorrow, sorrow, but let the good prevail”. The refrain of Aeschylus’s chorus near the start of the Oresteia is alive and honoured in Henryk Górecki’s rhetoric-free symphonic memorial and Crystal ...

The theatre director Anna Mackmin has written and directed an extraordinary play about a mother and daughter relationship: extraordinary because it puts the audience inside the maelstrom of these ...

Donald Rodney’s most moving work is a photograph titled In the House of My Father, 1997 (main picture). Nestling in the palm of his hand is a fragile dwelling whose flimsy walls are held together by ...