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

It’s a greater accolade than a Nobel Prize for Literature – one’s very own adjective. There’s a select few: Shakespearean; Dickensian and Pinteresque. Add to that list, Wildean.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The BBC Philharmonic took its Saturday night audience on a journey into French sonic luxuriance – in reverse order of ...