There are no white-sheeted ghosts in this year’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. The BBC’s annual adaptations of MR James’s best ...

For many thousands of years, humans have turned to art to tell stories about themselves and others because it feels good. It ...

Travis arrived onstage with the theme tune from classic sitcom Cheers as an accompaniment. The cavernous OVO Hydro might not ...

Robert Eggers' strength as a director is his ability to bring historical periods alive with gritty, tactile realism. He does ...

Enough is as good as a feast, they say. But sometimes, especially at Christmas, you crave a properly groaning table. At the ...

French production filmed in Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, the Frenchness seems to have mysteriously leaked away.

It is not just Twelfth Night, it’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will in The Folio, a signpost of the choices the inhabitants, ...

There are some years where my pick for album of the year is obvious; something stands out so clearly amongst the crowd, ...

Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way ...

Ravel: The Complete Works with Piano François-Xavier Poizat, Philharmonia/Simone Menezes et al(Aparté) ...

Broadway shows sometimes hit the West End like, well, like a comet, burning brightly but briefly (Spring Awakening, for ...

This feels like the theatrical equivalent of being in a centrifuge – a wild, spinning ride through different forms of reality ...