In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal ...

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly ...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows ...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of the sport’s indisputable greats. Alain Prost doesn’t ...

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the head of his teenage cousin after the cousin is executed by jihadists ...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion ...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired ...

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have ...

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but ...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions for the price of one. Other than being on the same bill, Edward Burra and ...