Spring may have sprung, but there’s little in life to truly raise the sprits, so this week’s release of Who Believes in ...

Motherhood is a high stress job. Ask any woman and they will tell you the same: sleepless nights, feeding problems and worry.

That friend you have who hates musicals – probably male, probably straight, probably not seen one since The Sound of Music on ...

It’s quite ironic that the Royal Northern College of Music should have invited, as director of this, Britten’s avowedly pacifist opera, Orpha Phelan – whose version of his Billy Budd for Opera North ...

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” The Aesop-ian maxim roughly applies to Jérémie Pastor (Félix Kysyl) in Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia. Though unemployed Toulouse baker Jérémie doesn’t ...

Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence ...

On the evidence of the 83-year-old maestro’s performance with the same orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall last night, the answer would have to be a resonant affirmative. The Philharmonia Chorus ...

The dramatic allure of families neck-deep in organised crime never seems to falter, and Stephen Butchard’s new series ...

Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

The typical Jason Statham movie character – muscular, resourceful, drily humorous – could probably carve an army into ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering ...