Our humanity is defined not only by our use of language, but also by our sense of the spiritual. Whether you are a believer ...

Dying is easy, comedy is hard, according to the Georgian actor Edmund Kean. Luckily, everybody involved with the much-awarded ...

In Jewish folklore, a golem is an inanimate clay figure, brought to life when a magic word is placed inside its mouth. Piotr ...

As Valentine’s Day crests around us, and lonely hearts come out of their winter hibernation, what better time to publish ...

On the first date of a 17-concert tour that had its preview at Celtic Connections in January, Across the Evening Sky begins ...

Imagine: you take your seat at the best restaurant in town, the waiter arrives with a flourish to fill your water glass, you ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

Ridley Scott’s 2001 film Black Hawk Down was a technically superb blockbuster bristling with thunderous action sequences and ...

There is an atmosphere of otherworldly stillness within the stony womb of a large dilapidated church in Bristol, at the ...

Since when has new writing become so passionless? Mike Bartlett is one of the country’s premiere playwrights and his new play ...

Sharks were formed in 1972 by bassist Andy Fraser after he left Free. There were two albums, line-up changes and ripples ...

George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was ...