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This is a real humdinger of a Holmes, an intoxicating swirl through the mind of the fictional detective who has fascinated figures as…

After her lyrical tribute last year to a gone-too-soon young poet, Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl returns to the Hampstead Theatre with the…

In the 70s, a science-inclined schoolboy like me was directed to young adult oriented biographies of Thomas Edison, of which there were…

Drake just released not only his expected ninth album, Iceman, but another two albums, Maid of Honour and Habibti. 43 songs. Two-and-a-half…

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellan) has, he says, painted nothing but shit in 30 years and nothing at all for 20. In the Sixties he was a major…

1536, Ava Pickett’s debut play, is a tribute to women who won’t shut up, especially ones living precarious lives in Tudor England in the…

Four storeys above Oxford Circus, the noise and bustle recedes to be replaced by a parallel universe of gleaming glass-fronted workspaces…

If you seek a filmmaker to create the fine grain of 20th-century Europe at its most traumatised, you can’t do better than Hungary’s László…

Tamikrest are one of the swaths of Tuareg bands that were born out of the violent oppression of their people at the hands of the Malian…