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It wasn't exactly a stellar year for comedy but there were plenty of shows that shone brightly and have stayed with me, even if the…
Actors who play someone with Tourette syndrome have to take a huge step out of their comfort zone. Robert Aramayo accepted that challenge…
Analysts tell us that the UK’s top-rated TV show this Christmas was the King’s speech, with the Strictly Christmas special coming in a mere…
It was a year for outstanding individual performances, especially from relative newcomers, and at least three flawless ensembles, less so…
A foreign-language release steeped in Catholicism isn’t exactly what you’d expect to top virtually every end-of-year album list. But…
Turner and Constable, Rivals and Originals, Tate Britain, November 2025Whoever thought of creating an exhibition comparing the brilliance…
The stylish gentlemen pictured above are Crimson Earth, a band active from 1970 to 1976. Regardless of their longevity, the Dorset-based…
If it's possible for snippets from live theatre to play in the mind on a perpetual loop, the London theatre during 2025 offered many such…
It’s 1952 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, seven years after the Enola Gay dropped a bomb on the Japanese empire, but one skinny New Yorker…