Hoffmann (Juan Diego Flórez) in Luther's tavern with drinkers and companion-parrot Nicklausse (Julie Boulianne)All images by ...

Can experimental theatre survive the decades? This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Forced Entertainment theatre ...

Quarter of an hour into The Problem with People there’s a 15-second clip of Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero – and it’s the best ...

Pavel Kolesnikov returned to the Hallé last night with a bobby-dazzler of a concerto. He’s a laid-back dude in appearance, ...

A father and son union – the first joint collaboration by Garfunkel père et fils. Art Junior it seems has already released ...

Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 film The Day of the Jackal was successful thanks to its lean, almost documentary-like treatment of its ...

At 83, he performs sitting down. Surrounded by support band Iji, who act as his pick-up, he approaches the song in a whispery, affable voice. At the start of his set he was assisted to his seat but, ...

If you are bothered about climate change – and who isn’t? – you’ll soon come across references to the “energy transition”. Example? Look, here’s one in this week’s New Scientist, a full-page ad from ...

In many ways, Primal Scream have had a strikingly similar career path to the Rolling Stones – despite them forming some 20 ...

As Steven Isserlis announced just before the final work, in more senses than one, of a five-day revelation, the 79 year old ...

If the names Pinch, Vex’d, Burial, Digital Mystikz, The Bug mean anything to you, stop reading now and buy or stream this album. Seriously, go. Go get it. That honestly is all you need to know: if you ...

The latest true-crime adaptation about a murderous man and his female victims turns its star into a bloody mess on a hospital ...