Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have been turbo-charged, mad-staring, cringe-inducing figures occupying the centre of comedies and ...

War, pestilence, famine, death. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my fill of them all. So what better time to visit the genuinely sunny uplands – the long-anticipated second album from Wet Leg.My, ...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of Australian Aboriginal ...

A three-century-spanning countdown rapidly ticks to a version of now, and a beaten Superman (David Corenswet) ploughing into Arctic snow. His super-whistle fetches Superdog Krypto to excavate him like ...

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-breaking and influential. His painting was first-class, but ...

I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people ...

I still can’t believe that some pseudo-critics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango,” Astor Piazzolla once declared ...

Can a romcom be intellectually challenging while hitting all the sweet spots of the genre? Jonás Trueba, the director of the ...

A thirtysomething American woman with wavering self-confidence, a tendency to talk too much and a longing for married bliss ...