Spring may have sprung, but there’s little in life to truly raise the sprits, so this week’s release of Who Believes in ...

Motherhood is a high stress job. Ask any woman and they will tell you the same: sleepless nights, feeding problems and worry.

That friend you have who hates musicals – probably male, probably straight, probably not seen one since The Sound of Music on ...

On the evidence of the 83-year-old maestro’s performance with the same orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall last night, the answer would have to be a resonant affirmative. The Philharmonia Chorus ...

Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence ...

Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

The dramatic allure of families neck-deep in organised crime never seems to falter, and Stephen Butchard’s new series ...

The typical Jason Statham movie character – muscular, resourceful, drily humorous – could probably carve an army into ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

The BBC Philharmonic took its Saturday night audience on a journey into French sonic luxuriance – in reverse order of ...

A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering ...

On the spoken word LP Loose Talk, Amelia Barratt reflects on her or other women’s experiences, real or imagined, over ...