Modern directors have little truck with the idea that particular operas demand particular styles of production, and they can ...

Theatre can be a joy. This we know. But what if it’s also a real trial? Whatever you think of the politics of Portuguese writer and director Tiego Rodrigues’s provocatively titled Catarina and the ...

Modern directors have little truck with the idea that particular operas demand particular styles of production, and they can ...

Taika Waititi’s 2016 hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople operates on multiple levels, its blend of odd-couple comedy and adventure nicely sustained. Julian Dennison’s Ricky Baker looks like a wrong’un from ...

On Monday evening I headed to the Wigmore Hall, the Mecca of classical chamber music, for something out of their – and my – usual lane. Australian-American jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh and tenor ...

We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and ...

Thirty years and almost a dozen albums on from her debut Dixie Kitchen, named after the restaurant she set up in Boston’s ...

Beginning the new Bridgewater Hall season with a Wagner prelude and a Sibelius symphony (especially No. 5) may not have ...

Thirty years and almost a dozen albums on from her debut Dixie Kitchen, named after the restaurant she set up in Boston’s ...

Chris Farlowe was on a high at the time. His version of the Stones’s “Out of Time” had hit number one in July 1966. Though that was preceded by two other singles on Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog ...

Hollywood’s reward for Zach Cregger’s hearteningly original, non-franchise horror hits Barbarian (2022) and the Oscar-winning ...

If This Bed Was Made For Me had been issued in 1971 or 1973, it would have snugly fit into an artistic landscape where David ...