"Iconic" must be the most used and abused word in the reviewer’s lexicon - a single in the Top Ten and a slot down the bill ...

At the start, Jessica is shown in court, ruling her work environment with a strong hand, putting male barristers in their place, and showing feminist empathy to rape victims. At the same time, she has ...

Yes, the fatal lake of Bly that so attracts little Flora in Benjamin Britten’s 1954 opera (as in Henry James’s incomparably unsettling novella of 1898) must exert its scary pull. But here “the ...

Andy Sheppard, like other artists who record frequently for ECM, has built a substantial oeuvre in the label’s mighty ...

It’s hardly surprising that director Grant Gee, one of the most outstanding documentarians around – with acclaimed films ...

Having a go at Howard Devoto’s post-Buzzcocks band wasn’t new. In NME, Tony Parsons considered their February 1979 single “Rhythm of Cruelty” thus: “Howard the Schmuck writes pretty little melodies, ...

After the mighty artillery of the Berliner Philharmoniker, here was a German-themed and German-delivered Prom full of subtle, ...

If you watch the Donmar’s A Month in the Country, as I did, through the prism of Frederick Ashton’s sparer 1976 one-act ...

Bomb disposal clearly isn’t a job for the faint-hearted, but Vicky McLure’s Lana Washington, who heads the specialist ...

If you’ve read previous theartsdesk roundups from We Out Here festival, you’ll know that this is one time of year when your ...

It’s been 15 years since UK rap pioneer Dizzee Rascal released his smash hit “Bonkers”. Love it or hate it, there’s no ...

Bogart’s 1950s filmography reads like an X-ray of Golden Age Hollywood’s bipolar soul. That uneasy marriage of art and ...