It’s a greater accolade than a Nobel Prize for Literature – one’s very own adjective. There’s a select few: Shakespearean; Dickensian and Pinteresque. Add to that list, Wildean.

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” The Aesop-ian maxim roughly applies to Jérémie Pastor (Félix Kysyl) in Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia. Though unemployed Toulouse baker Jérémie doesn’t ...

It’s quite ironic that the Royal Northern College of Music should have invited, as director of this, Britten’s avowedly pacifist opera, Orpha Phelan – whose version of his Billy Budd for Opera North ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...