Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Lise de la Salle was not the soloist the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover originally planned to bring with them to open their ...

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Hail, Mary, full of Grace”, the first words uttered by Gabriel to Mary in Luke's account of the Annunciation, are not heard ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...

This masterpiece opened the programme, with the opening chords and pizzicatos emerging almost imperceptibly from the strings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. I could hear them – just – ...

Disc number four, however, marks a sharp stylistic left turn for the Aussie mavericks. In fact, No Bad Memories sounds most of all like it could easily have come from a frenzied collaboration between ...

Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version, first seen at the Almeida in 2013, presents the play, its ...