I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world. Because the souls of those people who have suffered a violent or unhappy ...

That sound you may be hearing most evenings toward the lower end of St Martin's Lane is likely to be the roof being blown off ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to his The Social Network screenplay is an old-fashioned, stolid response to social media’s wildfire ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

There’s a sinister edge these days to men dressed all in black, marching in step. They used to be quite funny (in this country anyway) and often still are, but the Roderick Spode aspect is fading and ...

Into the Woods, let's dare to state it, is the most perfect music-theatre creation of the last 40 years. Sondheim's sense of ...

Fancy a trip to the seaside, if the fine weather holds? Then make Margate your destination. On my visit the sea was blue and ...

A young electronic music producer of my acquaintance recently wrinkled their nose at Chase & Status’s last mega hit “BACKBONE,” saying “it’s just presets”. That is, they thought C&S were using ...

This year is the 70th birthday of the London Film Festival – the grand variety pack of films from the year’s other festivals, with few premieres of its own. The competition element is downplayed, too, ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...