Death can be a powerful driver for comedy, as countless stand-ups and sitcom writers will affirm, but it has to be ...

A look at Darling on its 60th anniversary offers a sobering reality check on the "Swinging Sixties", a reminder of the ...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions for the price of one. Other than being on the same bill, Edward Burra and ...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but ...

Jarvis Cocker is proudly holding the No 1 trophy handed to him on the day Pulp topped the album chart for the first time in ...

The opening and closing concerts of a season tend to be statements of intent – to pursue a path of exploration or (latterly) ...

Had a passer-by from outwith Newcastle been asked to guess what was taking place at St James' Park, football would have been ...

One of the great untold stories of the past decade is just how potent a cultural force R&B has been. It might not have had the wild musical innovation it did in the 2000s when the likes of Neptunes, ...

Older readers may recall the cobbled together, ramshackle play, a staple of the Golden Age of Light Entertainment that would ...

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

"It was really strange. Really quite conflicting, the sort of thing most bands didn't have to deal with. At the front, we'd ...

The opening images of Tornado are striking. A wild-haired young woman in Japanese peasant garb runs for her life through a ...