“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

What happens after the spotlight is directed towards another target? In the case of Liverpool and the Merseybeat boom – which ...

The BBC’s latest “cool” Agatha Christie adaptation has many hallmarks of the decidedly dark ones that were considered ...

Quartets Through a Time of Change: music by Ravel, Durey, Tailleferre and Milhaud Brother Tree Sound (First Hand Records) ...

Exactly half a century ago, Semyon Bychkov fled the USSR for the United States as he sought to swap tyranny for liberty. Last ...

Last year’s sixth season of Drive to Survive radiated an air of diminishing returns. It was as though the novelty of its ...

Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a saintly, courageous figure, of major historical significance. Those are ...

Don’t heckle the disabled – that’s a hate crime.” What an opener for his latest touring show, The End of an Era, which I saw ...

When Twiggy burst on to the scene in 1966, she was a beacon of hope for all flat-chested, short-haired, skinny girls. Of ...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the ...

Within the loud realm of metal, it often exists happily unbothered by the mainstream. And although a metal band going ...