Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...

Calcutta plays an important supporting role in Satyajit Ray’s The Big City (Mahanagar), though we only catch glimpses of it ...

One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...

Judging from her second album, young country singer Willow Avalon has kissed her fair share of frogs. She doesn’t let them off the hook. Rather, she stamps all over them with a vivacious ferocity that ...

Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.

Deep fulfilling synths, trudging rhythms and precise vocal chops and samples, the album defines what they do best, and now, 13 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada are back with the dark ...

Keys to Your Heart,” the only single by Joe Strummer’s pre-Clash band The 101’ers, was released on 27 June 1976 – 50 years ...

Language is a weapon in the RSC’s vigorous adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac ­– we feel viscerally that wordplay is just one ...

It’s the summer vacation and eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her three brothers have moved into a new house on ...

French playwright Florian Zeller’s 2011 four-hander about infidelity and the deceptions it entails, translated by Christopher ...

Ben Ockrent’s Relics had me hooked from the moment the safety curtain started rising: a metal number with a banner of packing ...

If screwball noir is a subgenre (encompassing Something Wild, Fargo, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Wild at Heart, After Hours), ...