Still only 23, the US saxophonist is channelling the free jazz pioneered by Albert Ayler in the 60s – and making hugely profound, wildly uplifting music Interviewed many years after the experience, Don Cherry said he would “never forget” the first ti...
Doctor Who star will play Algernon in the ‘hilariously subversive’ comedy, said artistic director Rufus NorrisDoctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is to make his debut at the National Theatre in London in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.Gatwa wi...
Illinoise sees the artist’s 2005 album transform into an ambitious and eye-opening modern dance show like nothing else on BroadwayJustin Peck is spending the spring zigzagging between Times Square and the Upper West Side. The star choreographer of Ne...
This provocative and engrossing history of marine life identifies its role in shaping us – and the future crisis we faceThe science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke once argued that our planet should not be called Earth. “Clearly it is Ocean,” he obser...
The business mogul – who looks suspiciously like comic Peter Serafinowicz – knows his stuff: he invested in Blockbuster and advised Liz Truss. Now he’s sharing his ‘wisdom’ with a book and tourIt is 9am on a cold spring morning, and I’m standing in c...
This idealistic feature draws parallels between the struggles of immigrant Polish workers in Norway and the homophobia faced by two young lovers, but can’t quite sew up the two seamsDirector Leiv Igor Devold makes an unexpected link-up between Norway...
Choreographers from the US, Brazil, Greece and Portugal in the running for the £40,000 inaugural Rose international dance prizeFour choreographers are in the running for the inaugural £40,000 Rose international dance prize, which hopes to do for cont...
Deaf and with Down syndrome, Scott endured horrific conditions in institutions for 35 years. Then, when her twin enrolled her at an arts centre, a remarkable artist emergedBundles of fibre wrapped around shapes as if mummifying something sacred. Bicy...
Oleksiy Radynski chronicles the visionary architect Florian Yuriev’s drive to rescue Kyiv’s Institute of Information from destruction after he was given weeks to live The extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, a visionary Ukrainian architect and artis...
A look back at a selection of some of the remarkable work enabled by the Joan Wakelin bursary, administered by the Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society, which offers photographers £2,000 and the opportunity to have their work published in the...
Kings Place, LondonNew York-based composer Nico Muhly teamed up with the Aurora Orchestra and folk singers Robyn Stapleton and Sam Amidon to explore songs from Scotland and the USAt first sight the New York-based composer Nico Muhly might seem an unl...
The Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effectSarah Perry’s third book, Melmoth, remains, to my mind, one of the most complex and brilliant novels of...
The solo artist sings along privately to Oasis and to Bruce Springsteen in public. But what song is her classic Dreams based on?The first song I remember hearingTop of the World by the Carpenters on the radio when I was three or four, standing in the...
From an eagle to Elton John, the Played and Remade project enables artists to ‘make something magical’ from free materialsThe task of loading once-loved but now unwanted pianos into a van and carting them off to the recycling centre is a disheartenin...
Family and contestants on a dating show centred on a trans woman recall her before her tragic death. Plus, more patrol perils in Blue Lights. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...