On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...

When news first filtered through that the Scouse comedian John Bishop’s marital woes were going to be turned into a film, my brain lazily filed its director’s name under the wrong Bradley: Whitford, ...

There is nothing to compare with the visceral experience of hearing a massed choir – in this case the 230-strong combined ...

One pure sonofabitch 45. The record to put them high in the national charts. Top five at least.” In October 1976, the weekly music paper Sounds was unequivocal about Eddie and the Hot Rods’ “Teenage ...

Tim Crouch is one of our great theatrical alchemists. Most famously – in his conceptual show An Oak Tree – he creates a ...

Spanning centuries, cultures and an ocean, Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo’s new musical, Ballad Lines (say it fast and it ...

Location, location, location... a tangible sense of place and local identity can make or break a TV drama, and Under Salt ...

The latest brainwave of director Richard Linklater is wonderfully simple: don’t do another remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut ...

One of the great problems with modern music criticism is that it hasn’t got past the models of the second half of the last ...

Evil capitalists are in the cross-hairs of this six-part thriller, conceived and mostly written by Sotiris Nikias.

It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its premiere, so it’s certainly time for a fresh look at it.And ...

When it comes to the proletariat taking matters into their own hands, the British working class does not have many ...