Tim Cumming
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Has the pandemic made us more angry? Although Francesca Martinez’s debut play, which is at the...

In later life Gustav Metzger appeared a marginal, eccentric figure. The diminutive, white-bearded artist, was often to be seen round London’s...


The last time Danger Mouse (Brian Burton to his mum) dropped a hip hop album, it was 2005’s...

The Last Return, Traverse Theatre ★★...

It is mid-way through the new Ring cycle, and we are taking lunch outside the old town hall on the high street in Bayreuth. Discussion at...

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!, Summerhall ★...

Danny Elfman – the punk rocker-turned-film composer behind Batman, Spider-Man, Edward Scissorhands and The Simpsons...

In retrospect, all the clues were there. A star actor embarking on a new performance genre; a fresh reappraisal of one of...

Joseph Heller grew tired of being told that he’d never written anything as good as Catch 22. ‘Who has?’, he'd retort. In the same...