The scenario Pickett has devised shouldn’t work; in fact, it raises one too many questions to be wholly successful, notably: who has been fighting this civil war? On one side is tattooed, bearded, ...

Joan Sutherland in 1975: Opera gave her a glamour and status she had never imagined having Her Mad Scene had an escapist quality that I don’t remember anyone else equalling for me - the way she chased ...

Eddie is now expanding his subterranean weed-growing business further afield, via an Italian connection, Cico Maldini (Michele Morrone). Unfortunately Cico is an uncouth oaf incapable of civilised ...

Older women, even middle-class women, are living with unbearable stress. Don’t believe me? Well, look around you. The stress of living up to slogans about “having it all”; the stress of divorce and ...

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 ...

That body art, he explains, represents how Chladni have been observed since ancient times, and can be seen throughout the natural world: tortoiseshells, leopard spots, zebra stripes, and, when sliced ...

How much further Ibragimova and a slightly different team - all women now - have taken that G minor Quartet than on their already superb BIS recording. Haydn wasn't exactly young when he made this ...

If you haven't read A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson, who collaborated on the film, you'll want to after this. Were the story of how how De Gaulle and his ...