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

Theatre is a strange dish. A recipe can be stacked with delicious ingredients, cooked to exacting standards, taste-test beautifully at the halfway mark, yet leave you not quite full, not exactly ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Christian Gerhaher, the most compelling and complete interpreter of German Lieder of our time, makes no secret of the fact ...