There was so much to be thankful for throughout the three days I spent at the Aldeburgh Festival this year. First, of course, ...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...

Calcutta plays an important supporting role in Satyajit Ray’s The Big City (Mahanagar), though we only catch glimpses of it ...

One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...

Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.

Judging from her second album, young country singer Willow Avalon has kissed her fair share of frogs. She doesn’t let them off the hook. Rather, she stamps all over them with a vivacious ferocity that ...

It’s the summer vacation and eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her three brothers have moved into a new house on ...

French playwright Florian Zeller’s 2011 four-hander about infidelity and the deceptions it entails, translated by Christopher ...

Language is a weapon in the RSC’s vigorous adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac ­– we feel viscerally that wordplay is just one ...

Ben Ockrent’s Relics had me hooked from the moment the safety curtain started rising: a metal number with a banner of packing ...

The erotic life of puppets – we discover in this show – is filled with intriguing possibilities that are denied to mere flesh ...

Sweating in my lair, there’s no trip to the mecca this year. If the festival was on, I'd be there right now, but it’s a ...