Arts and Culture

The Beheading of St John the Baptist in Valletta’s St John’s Co-Cathedral became the inspiration for Samuel Beckett’s dramatic monologue Not I

Most modern European languages are thought to have originally come from one area of the vast Eurasian Steppe

It’s nothing short of terrifying that Tom Basden has managed to shift a story of Italian police corruption so effortlessly and convincingly to a metropolitan police station in this country

A triumphant production about life, love, growing old and dying has absolutely restored my faith in theatre

When the Muppets went on a mission to Moscow in the 1990s, things didn’t go according to plan

The most popular shows and viewing statistics across the continent

To the director, women were not full human beings - they were props and justifications for male rampage

The latest screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel has scooped four Oscars and seven Baftas

Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison

She was that rarest of dancers, one who could apparently transcend physics and the limitations of the human body

Look closely at the suffix -less and you’ll find it often attached to words like reck and ruth that have ceased to exist

Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts

It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed

It’s not just the British who are obsessed with the Nazis – Hitler still boosts sales and viewing figures in Germany

In the 1970s, the Jamaican singer was a new definition of the slogan ‘Black Power’ and she did not need politics

The borderlands of Paris are home to great works of architectural modernism – and some terrible mistakes

Celebrating pizza – a better gauge of human integrity than Matt Hancock

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

Why tranquil indifference is not the answer to the world's problems

The country is divided over the ‘iron chancellor’, feminist foreign policy and Putin’s ‘manifesto for peace’

Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

Celebrating 100 years of the subversive eccentric feted by the Beatles and John Peel

From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

This delicious dish is inspired by sustainability and doesn’t require anything of which we’re currently short. Nor, thankfully, does it call for turnips...

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

The Ukrainian-American was forward thinking in his willingness to combine art with the world of science and engineering

This Italian-style dish is ideally suited to late winter

In Italy, the art of dubbing foreign films is creating voiceover celebrities. But that means the homegrown screen industry is losing out

Svetlana Alexievich’s books chart the horrors of history through witness testimony rather than fiction