Tess Parks’ fourth solo album is suffused with otherness. When lyrics are direct, they are destabilised by the etiolated, ...

Autumn certainly looks good when you lay everything out on the kitchen table. A celebrated source novel from an award-winning writer (Ali Smith) adapted by Harry McDonald, fresh from his critical ...

The missing element is magic, the swooning sense of the romantic, spiritual and supernal which Michael Powell’s partnership with Emeric Pressburger found in the British and especially English soul, ...

The Undertakers were central to the Merseybeat boom. The best of what they issued on single in 1963 and 1964 captured the raw ...

Delirium has greeted Disney’s eight-part adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel Rivals (part of her Rutshire Chronicles ...

No film tackles the knotty topic of inherited mental illness with as much gleeful abandon as Smile. Mental health has been a ...

QueerWilliam Burroughs’ eponymous novel was nearly filmed by Steve Buscemi in 2011, but it has finally reached the screen ...

Last Monday my colleague Boyd Tonkin was delighted by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s playing at Hatfield House – and on Thursday it was my turn to be impressed by their colourful Wigmore Hall ...

At first, you wonder if the peculiar voice of Henry James’s maybe unreliable narrator can be preserved in this production.

I knew he was risky, but like fuck it, everyone’s risky.” A young woman (Kelley Jakle) poses for pictures on a deserted ...

John Webster’s sour, bloody tale of brotherly greed and vice has been updated by the playwright Zinnie Harris, who also ...

Theartsdesk on Vinyl is not sent nearly enough contemporary femme-fronted pop music. Partly this is because a lot of it doesn ...