A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to get pale He still has one of the great voices of ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means.

From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter Inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the ...

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like sheet music transfigured into the sound of an ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...