ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE

One of the last great, glamorous movie stars of Hollywood's golden era emerged from her quiet life of seclusion to collect a life-time...

Nuns loom large in the European imagination. They are often caricatured to the point of dehumanisation. Either as a grotesque comic...

With two choirs, a singing ensemble, a writing club and a music training programme, the Cape Cultural Collective aims to develop the arts...

Edinburgh is once again joyfully alive with creativity and originality as the UK’s largest arts event returns. Staged in the oak grove of...

Six is a jubilant celebration of sisterhood. You come for the Queens and these young queens live up to the hype. This musical is Tudor...

What does it mean to save a life – and what does it cost? In The Story of a Heart, Rachel Clarke answers this not with slogans or...

The Vegan Tigress, a new play by Claire Parker, shines a spotlight on the largely-forgotten feminist fairytale writer Mary De Morgan...

What is it like to move through the world when everyone tries to change who and what you are? This is the fundamental experience that the...

She was a key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s power in civil rights activism — and their...

Many people when they “grow up” wonder when the penny will drop and they’ll finally feel like a fully fledged adult. There have been...

In 2013, Ireland’s then Taoiseach (prime minister), Enda Kenny, delivered a formal apology to the survivors of the Magdalene laundries....

Lady in the Lake opens with a classic mystery premise: a man unceremoniously dumping a female corpse under a midnight blue sky. Less...

The Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast is back with a bang. The new Women’s Prize podcast season continues to celebrate the best books...

An upcoming Isle of Wight duo is to appear on Later With Jools Holland this weekend. Wet Leg, featuring Rhian Teasdale and Hester...

‘The Lost Daughter’ is a story about Leda (Olivia Colman), a Leeds-born lecturer who goes alone on a beach holiday from her house in...

Canadian theatre giant and Stratford Festival mainstay Martha Henry died Thursday of cancer. The 83-year-old actor died just 12 days...

Karen Mason has announced the release of her new single, the impressive title track from the upcoming album Let the Music Play. The full...

National Album Day returns for its fourth edition today, October 16, and this year will spotlight women artists and their huge...

Award-winning Scottish crime author Denise Mina kicks off the celebrations at Glasgow Women’s Library, where she filmed a new documentary...

Those in the competition for the £25,000 award ‘should enter the stage and be heard in the spotlight’, say judges. Two other shortlisted...