I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year.

No-one needs to be living in Trump’s USA to be aware that governments never feel that it’s in their interest to prioritise ...

With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...

Do you know the name of the propaganda minister of England, or America, or even Stalin? No. But Joseph Goebbels? Everyone ...

Little Simz clearly believes in meeting situations head on. Her sixth full-length album kicks off, in every sense of the ...

Turnstile’s NEVER ENOUGH is a vibrant, shape-shifting album that proves the Baltimore-based band is fully committed to ...

In 2012, the award-winning American writer Sarah Ruhl met a Yale playwriting student who became a special part of her life.

Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th Century playwright is complete. As ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, ...

I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely ...