One of the most resonant contemporary slogans is “Build bridges not walls”. Because it applies to the personal as well the ...

Record Store Day 2025 is this Saturday! At theartsdesk on Vinyl we’ve been playing through exclusive RSD goodies. Check the ...

Across seven decades, Alan Bennett has revealed a great deal of himself through plays and screenplays. In 1994, with the ...

It’s ten years since Tiga’s last solo album, the slightly tepid No Fantasy Required was released. So, it is something of a ...

Nine-year-old-year-old Callie-Rose (the extraordinarily talented Australian actor Lily LaTorre; Run Rabbit Run) needs the ...

Blues? Maybe, in atmospheric terms. But not in the 12-bar, blues-rock or Delta blues sense. Or most other senses. The album ...

Lincolnshire singer Holly Humberstone, now London-based, was awarded the Brit for Rising Star in 2022. A UK Top 5 album ...

As a reviewer, if you’re lucky, you get a tingle down the spine – rarely, but you know it when you feel ...

The new version of Ibsen’s classic by Anya Reiss at the Almeida prompted me to wonder at times whether wrenching a play out ...

Lohengrin (Piotr Beczala) and Elsa (Rachel Willis-Sørensen) rejoice while Ortrud (Tanja Ariane Baumgartner) and Telramund (Wolfgang Koch) sulk in the shadows In between these epic pillars came a ...

The pairing of Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands and Norwegian pop star Aurora sounds interesting but not, on paper, like the ...

If ever there was a piece that epitomised the view that villains are infinitely more fun than heroes, it would be Pierre ...