There’s not much point in having three hours worth of Shakespearean text to craft and the gorgeous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as ...

There was excellent music making in the Hallé concert in Manchester last night, and there was self-admitted “noise”. Briefly, ...

Nine billion streams a year. That’s the sheer scale on which the music of Ludovico Einaudi reaches audiences. The Italian, who will be 70 this November, is courteous and genial in person – I ...

As something of an immigrant to the capital myself in the long hot summer of 1984, I gobbled up Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes’s novel of an outsider embracing the temptations and dangers of ...

The quandary is this. Middlesbrough singer Amelia Coburn made one of my favourite albums of last year, her debut, Between the ...

It would be really easy to get hung up on the definition for this album. Is it a new sexuality term? A holiday genre of ...

Serious realisation of the seven often thorny Martinů string quartets is a major undertaking. When I spoke to Veronika ...

There’s a moment, as we build to a climax in Brady Corbet’s first film, The Childhood of a Leader (2015), when a servant at a ...

An opening sequence of a drone flying over a busy street in Baghdad, followed by a huge explosion that leaves many casualties ...

This is Tunng’s ninth album, their first in five years, and marks their 20th anniversary by consciously going full circle to ...

If nothing else, ITV’s new thriller Out There is a fabulous advertisement for the Welsh countryside. Many scenes were shot in ...

It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a permanent presence at early ...