"German sounds a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so, " pronounces Wilde's Lady Bracknell. She may, ...

In April 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, effectively confiscating privately-held gold from American citizens. This is the ...

Apparently, HAAi’s latest long player was originally meant to be a companion piece to her HUMANiSE album from last year. It clearly soon evolved into a completely stand-alone piece of work though. For ...

As we know now, but did not in 2013 when Bull was first staged, reality TV, like social media, kills people. You can argue ...

Sebastian Faulks’ Farewell to Eden is a slow-moving, brackish affair; in many ways it is nothing new. Like many of his most ...

Living the unison curve and its attendant shimmer with which Wagner outlines a religious mystery in the Prelude to Parsifal, ...

Noel Coward’s youthful writing surge produced dozens of plays, the perennially popular Hay Fever, premiered in 1925, among ...

Don't be fooled by New Ross. This quiet Irish country town on the tidal River Barrow with narrow medieval streets, hilly ...

Tales of the legal profession have given us countless memorable TV moments (Silk, Damages, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Good ...

Blossoms, yet another indie wonder from the ever-so-fertile Northwest, in tune with the Manchester mayor turned PM, have had ...

I perhaps shouldn’t say too much about this film, for reasons I shouldn’t say too much about. The point is, a bit of a ...

There’s a lot of grit in Wynonna Judd’s new album, in her voice, in her lyrics, in the back stories, the ones underfoot and ...