Ben Elton loves a scrap. The Motormouth of yesteryear, who made his name attacking Margaret Thatcher and her policies (and ...

Most Brits don’t know much about South Africa today, but we do know about house values, so this new comedy by South African ...

What better way to start a season about the Earth than by looking back on it from an astronaut’s perspective? At a time when ...

He starts by referencing the BBC programme, telling us it interrupted the tour of Yonks!, his latest show: “I developed a rather unnatural interest in ballroom dancing.” He has been in comedy 21 years ...

While these harmonise with the whole of Humanhood so are not discrete musical sketches, they point to a root driver of Tamara Lindeman’s seventh album as The Weather Station: feelings of ...

Yet Andsnes’s sturdy, direct, immaculately even-tempered, playing united these disparate territories, and even stamped his Debussy encore with the same robust character. Fans of a more nebulous, ...

Directed by Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor etc) and created by screenwriter Mark L Smith (Twisters, The Revenant), American Primeval uses this real-life background to drive a brutal ...

From the opening rattle of Janáček's rural mill-wheel – the xylophone used in the first production apparently imported from Czechia, such is his sense of detail – via the strings which flame around ...

Initially a product of Durban’s poetry scene, Sanelly, born Sanelisiwe Twisha, spent years building a reputation there and in Johannesburg, before coming to wider attention when Beyoncé featured her ...

On paper, probably yes. Here, loyal Nancy is still a victim of her brutal lover, little Oliver is not spared becoming a felon in the eyes of the law, Fagin is a gangmaster with criminal intent. But ...

Mark Wigglesworth was the maestro who piloted both parts of the programme, however, showing equally calm assurance and sympathy with their differing idioms. Boulez’ tribute to another 20 th century ...

Even if you haven’t seen the play (and, with productions as frequent as they have been, many buying tickets for this sold out run will have) the set-up is familiar. Two maids, resentful of their ...