With the passing of Dave Ball last autumn, one of the 1980s’ great synth-pop outfits came to an end. He and Soft Cell partner ...

The "Walter Presents" strand has coughed up all sorts of potential replacements, while BBC Four continues to pan for gold on Saturday nights. There’s already been one Swedish drama premiering this ...

Joe Hill's portrait of Harold Pinter: On its evidence, said Pinter, he should have opened for England Pinter started playing cricket for Gaieties CC in the mid-1960s. The club was the creation of ...

A rain shower had us hurrying in to early 17th century, pink sandstone Dirleton Church (pictured below later; JC), just off the second of two very English-feeling village greens, for Schubert's ...

Modern directors have little truck with the idea that particular operas demand particular styles of production, and they can ...

Movieland’s canon of dog movies is long and varied, from 101 Dalmations and Bolt to The Incredible Journey, Eight Below and ...

Theatre can be a joy. This we know. But what if it’s also a real trial? Whatever you think of the politics of Portuguese writer and director Tiego Rodrigues’s provocatively titled Catarina and the ...

Tis the season for American Halloween – pumpkin spice lattes, maple and smores everything, endless reruns of Gilmore Girls, ...

Space Afrika are a pair of Mancunian producers, composers and performers who have set out to specifically celebrate Black artistry with music that “alludes to spirituality and the human condition, the ...

Dylan, with his Rough and Rowdy Ways, the Stones with their Hackney Diamonds, and McCartney with his reflective Boys of ...

The impressive sight, the huge sound and the powerful immediacy of no fewer than 107 young and energised players tightly packed onto the Cadogan Hall stage (plus wind and thunder machines and cowbells ...