What a delightful show this is: a big hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe and now enjoying an extended run at Soho Theatre, ...
The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...
Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.
Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...
After a morning spent mesmerised by Simon Abkarian's De Gaulle, a hero disappeared by his supposed allies only to bounce back ...
Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version, first seen at the Almeida in 2013, presents the play, its ...
There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...
Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...
A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...
There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the ...
This masterpiece opened the programme, with the opening chords and pizzicatos emerging almost imperceptibly from the strings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. I could hear them – just – ...
Disc number four, however, marks a sharp stylistic left turn for the Aussie mavericks. In fact, No Bad Memories sounds most of all like it could easily have come from a frenzied collaboration between ...