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Would you want to marry a spy? After watching Betrayal, probably not.Writer David Eldridge has used the paradigm of the secret world as a…

In 2007, Pina Bausch was preparing her company’s latest “city piece”, this one based on a visit to Kolkotta. But she was also brewing up…

Kahchun Wong is continuing to put his own stamp on landmark works of the mainstream repertory with the Hallé. This time it was Beethoven’s…

“We will sacrifice our souls for you!” yells out a class of kids in The President’s Cake, nominally addressing a leader hundreds of miles…

Some 16 or so years ago, I recall hearing what sounded like fireworks from my hotel room in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. I was aware…

One of the smaller but more passionately enduring subcultures in the world today is that around slow dance music. The core of its audience…

“Lincoln, you have not been a Monday night crowd, they can be a bit funny,“ says Suede frontman Brett Anderson just before then band exit…

An infamous international financier, with a contacts book that includes presidents and dictators, a dark dossier on everyone he’ll ever…

Bayard Rustin is a fascinating but little-known figure in US history: a civil rights organiser who worked behind the scenes on both the…