"Chiaroscuro" - "light-dark", usually applied to bold contrasts within a single painting - isn't a term I'd have thought a ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...

What a delightful show this is: a big hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe and now enjoying an extended run at Soho Theatre, ...

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 ...

Lise de la Salle was not the soloist the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover originally planned to bring with them to open their ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...

There’s a sinister edge these days to men dressed all in black, marching in step. They used to be quite funny (in this country anyway) and often still are, but the Roderick Spode aspect is fading and ...

It all began over a decade ago when Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant simultaneously read mathematician Andrew Hodges’ biography of ...

This rather eccentric drama was created by Canadian writer/producer Jesse McKeown, and presents what for many viewers may ...