Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

Recent events have prompted the assertion – understandable in Ukraine – that the idea of the Russian soul is a nationalist ...

I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely ...

Pete Shelley’s departure from Buzzcocks felt abrupt. When he left the Manchester band which had been integral to British punk ...

As a regular theatregoer, you learn pretty quickly that there’s no story too bizarre to work as a musical. Cannibalistic ...

Thankfully, Julia Burbach’s version of The Flying Dutchman for Opera Holland Park doesn’t try to be one of those ...

This charmingly eloquent semi-autobiographical show – which first played at the Bush Theatre in 2022 – tells the story of a ...

Nick Mulvey’s first two albums, First Mind in 2014 and Wake Up Now in 2017, are among the loveliest singer-songwriter fare ...

Director Ben Rivers is primarily an artist, and it shows. Every frame of Bogancloch is treated as a work of art and the ...

Three live, very alive Symphonie fantastiques in a year may seem a lot. But such is Berlioz’s precise, unique and somehow ...

DEFA was East Germany’s state film studio, operating between 1946 and 1992. Among its vast output were four lavish science ...

I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, perhaps I was wrong and Miley Cyrus deserves that title.