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

"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 ...

Stevie Wonder absolutely matches such expectations and delivers: he exudes warmth, bonhomie, grace and serious respect for the musicians around him. He is also still remarkably sprightly for a man of ...

A lot, obviously, as Morpurgo plays other characters who populate this tale – the strict principal, the school bully and a cheerleader among them – but chiefly that he loses his diary which contains, ...

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

After a morning spent mesmerised by Simon Abkarian's De Gaulle, a hero disappeared by his supposed allies only to bounce back ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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