The knife in the eye is the cruellest blow,” Salman Rushdie considers, in this film of his book reckoning with the assault ...

I saw Sam Sweeney and Grace Smith perform back in August at the Sidmouth Folk Festival, in the function room of one of the bigger hotels overlooking the seafront. It was sold out, standing room only, ...

Dance culture is constantly remixing its past, but it seems like we’re in a sudden burst of interesting twists on that. Just ...

Their task isn’t made easier by the fact that the truck is being monitored by a drone overhead, but Lana cooks up an ingenious ruse to stop the vehicle inside a tunnel and replace the driver with one ...

Jens Harzer, in Berliner Ensemble Artistic Director Oliver Reese's staging of an exceptional German translation by Mirko Bonné (English subtitles either side of the Coronet stage), not only takes us ...

If your parents were crazy enough to call you Esmerelda – a name they gleaned from a crossword puzzle – you’d most likely ...

Rachmaninov's biggest, most demanding concerto began with Vondráček playing on the cusp of audibility, then speeding through elaboration of the mostly stepwise theme - derived, like so much in ...

The question of how deep these performances went, though, is probably subjective. I missed something, but nothing tangible, so let's praise the insights instead. Elgar had the ideal flexibility writ ...

Don't be fooled by New Ross. This quiet Irish country town on the tidal River Barrow with narrow medieval streets, hilly ...

Woodrow Wilson's attempts to forge a new international order based on principles of democracy, equal respect for sovereignty ...

In April 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, effectively confiscating privately-held gold from American citizens. This is the ...