'You get to the top, and you realise it’s really only the middle': Gabriel Byrne as PM Tom Dawkins Thus key exchanges were rarely allowed to take more than a couple of shallow breaths before we were ...

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...

The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Julie, a middle-aged, middle-class divorcée who parted company with her cheating husband Richard some 11 years ago, and has brought up their two daughters, the ambitious ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

Into the Woods, let's dare to state it, is the most perfect music-theatre creation of the last 40 years. Sondheim's sense of ...

It all began over a decade ago when Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant simultaneously read mathematician Andrew Hodges’ biography of ...