My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to ...

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German ...

WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide from two ...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and ...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for Spinal Tap ...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin ...

For the past decade, the Ohio alternative superstars Twenty One Pilots have cultivated a deep lore starting with 2015’s ...

It can be a hostage to fortune to title anything “grand”, and so it proves with the last gasp of Julian Fellowes’s everyday ...

Critics (including this one) casually refer to John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London as an all-star outfit, an army made up of ...

It’s a long way up from rock bottom/There’s been times I felt I could fall further.” So runs the opening line of Ed Sheeran’s eighth studio album. It’s delivered with the quavering ...

If you were a devotee of Dmitri Shostakovich whose only opportunity to attend some live performances marking this year’s 50th ...