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Sexual abuse and violence, self-harm and sadomasochism, piss and postpartum blood – Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water doesn’t…

For Richard Hawley, a “little banger” is a top-notch single, one condensing everything about the performance and performer into what can he…

Star attractions for this revival of ENO/Improbable's Coney-Island-in-the-1950s Così were sopranos Lucy Crowe and Ailish Tynan, and…

A right wing populist, a master manipulator of the media, he appears to be immune to the long accepted norms of professional behaviour.…

It’s a story being repeated the world over – apex predators such as lynx, wolves and bears hunted to extinction, followed by the gradual…

Edward Simon shows again on this new album of re-imagined songs from Venezuela what a very fine pianist he is. His touch and inventiveness…

Fabled for (among other things) The Evil Dead, Darkman and Spider-Man, Sam Raimi made his last appearance as a director on 2022’s Doctor…

Mandy, Indiana are a Mancunian four-piece with a French singer who's based in Berlin. They make a lot of noise. Their second album is a…

"How can we sleep for grief?", asks the brilliant and agitated Thomasina Coverly (the dazzling Isis Hainsworth) during the first act of…