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Beck isn’t an artist who is scared to try his hand at different musical genres when the muses grab his attention. Previously, there’s been…

The pious con artist is a figure who will sadly never go out of fashion. Where, in Molière’s day, the clergy held the monopoly on…

An epiphany of golden Chinese palaces and magically-lit Egyptian pyramids, not to mention the highest standards of singing and playing, won…

When The Children was premiered at the Royal Court in 2016, it hit you between the eyes with its deadly calm scrutiny of self-annihilation…

If This Bed Was Made For Me had been issued in 1971 or 1973, it would have snugly fit into an artistic landscape where David Crosby’s If I…

With a sly wink, Ava Pickett’s early play, drafted before she went on to write 1536, wrangles another slice of history into a drama that…

At his first ever concert in Bradford-on-Avon (at the Wiltshire Music Centre) last Sunday, Richard Thompson drew an enthusiastic full house…

Hay-on-Wye is so famous for shops that sell books and for a festival which platforms their authors, that it may come as a surprise (a…

Repeated viewings of Billy Liar remind one that it's pretty bleak in parts, a study of mendacity, infidelity and familial dysfunction in a…

This is top-notch French popular cinema, a coming of age tale subtly interweaving themes of class and race and authentic memories, comic…