Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised ...

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

The slightly overwrought subtitle gives a good indication how computer enthusiast Sam Arbesman treats his subject. Software, ...

It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...