For a beautiful treatment of Matsuo Bashō's celebrated haiku “A frog jumps in”, the dreamlike stream-of-consciousness of “I ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

It wasn't exactly a stellar year for comedy but there were plenty of shows that shone brightly and have stayed with me, even ...

A foreign-language release steeped in Catholicism isn’t exactly what you’d expect to top virtually every end-of-year album ...

Turner and Constable, Rivals and Originals, Tate Britain, November 2025Whoever thought of creating an exhibition comparing ...

It’s 1952 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, seven years after the Enola Gay dropped a bomb on the Japanese empire, but one ...

What is a documentary maker supposed to do when someone as gifted and empathic as Francis Whately has already covered most of ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

If it's possible for snippets from live theatre to play in the mind on a perpetual loop, the London theatre during 2025 ...

The stylish gentlemen pictured above are Crimson Earth, a band active from 1970 to 1976. Regardless of their longevity, the ...

It was a year for outstanding individual performances, especially from relative newcomers, and at least three flawless ...

Yes, I know.Maybe everything bitched about them is true; an eye-watering marketing push, cynically calculated, monied, etc.