Along the way, though, he’s made quite a few really great records and remained absolutely, in every possible way, committed to the bit. So it is here, on his first album in 11 years, in which he doesn ...

Vilma Jää's Markéta with fellow students and Lucy Shelton as teacher Cecilia Fortunately Stone pulls off another revelatory piece of direction to follow his Ibsen, Korngold, Wagner and creative takes ...

Some things have changed (we are now without Ian Hart’s stalwart Beocca, who died a heroic death last time around), but the sturdy underpinnings of Bernard Cornwell’s original novels remain. The 10th ...

On paper there’s plenty to tempt audiences to the National Theatre’s latest production of Wilde's searing attack on social convention. Maybe you’re seduced by the thought of a cast that includes ...

The vibe, on a rudimentary set that suggests, but no more than that, a generic liner, is of an undergraduate show brought to Edinburgh for a boozy midnight house. Worse still, just when you think you ...

Wasser was not always a singer. She started off her musical career playing violin in various youth orchestras, and later with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra. Wasser soon found playing ...

Meet the Worths: Anna (Abigail Lawrie), Jack (Tim Roth) and Angela (Genevieve O’Reilly) After the peculiar mixture of Ammonite preachers and Mexican drug cartels in series two, this return to basics ...

Set in March 1759, somewhere on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, The Welkin tells the story of Sally Poppy, a young woman who is arrested for a particularly brutal child murder. She did not, however ...

The infectious, far-from-solemn, brio of Bates and his crew capped this year’s week-long London Festival of Baroque Music in Smith Square. Bates’s determination that Bach’s monumental setting of the ...

The vocal style, straightforward lyrics, and stripped back approach to the music makes 45-year-old frontman Tom Smith sound far more time-worn than he ought to. "The Rush”, “Real” and “Seriously” are ...

The queen bee among the ladies is played by a chilly Elizabeth Debicki, who like all the women in the village, has no name herself but is known by their husband’s status (Tailor’s Wife, in her case).