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The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, with…

In all honestly, 2025 has not been a vintage year for new recorded music and there certainly seems to have been a significant paucity of…

Ask many a boomer about their scariest childhood memory, and they may very well cite the extraordinary 1957 East German production, The…

That young person sitting next to you on the bus, earbuds wedged in, an enigmatic, Mona Lisa-ish smile on their face - are they listening…

Of all the problems a band could face, fighting for room onstage with a Christmas tree must be far down the list of possibilities. Yet…

The village of Cesinova has the largest white stork population in Macedonia; every chimney and steeple is festooned with the scruffy nests…

Hell has no fury like a stan scorned, as an Eminem song memorably established with respect to obsessed fanboys in the pop world, and this…

Among millennials, Taylor Momsen is likely to be primarily remembered as an actor of things relatively sweet and family friendly. She…

Even more than his new film, Jafar Panahi was a sensation at Cannes this year. For the first time in 15 years, the Iranian director was…