Danish film Festen inspires a new masterpiece at the Royal Opera House that packs family secrets, abuse and racism into a ...

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

The latest play from theatrical provocateur Howard Brenton is about Winston Churchill's visit to Joseph Stalin in Moscow in 1942, and stars Roger Allam (pictured) and Peter Forbes.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's production is characteristically bold, but operatic grandeur doesn't lend itself to the Danish ...

Happy Families… A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall’s adaptation at the Royal Opera is even more emotionally lacerating than the 1998 original ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

I slutningen af 1990erne hørte jeg en besynderlig historie i radioen, der lød som et referat af Thomas Vinterbergs Festen. Der var noget, der ikke stemte.

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro explains why he's starring in his first ever TV series Zero Day, where he plays a former US President out to find the culprits behind a deadly cyber-attack on America.