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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...

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 ...

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 ...