date: 2012-05-16 23:00:01

Readers of the financial pages will be well aware of Nicola Horlick, the superstar fund manager who landed the nickname "superwoman" as she juggled a high-powered career with raising six children. She appears less regularly in the arts section, but that is set to change as her new ...

date: 2012-05-16 17:36:52

Strange things are happening in The Basement, Brighton’s buzzy home for avant-garde theatre.

date: 2012-05-16 15:50:22

“I can feel your beats in my vagina,” Beth Ditto informs her drummer Hannah Blilie. “Because the room is so small... welcome to the Beth Ditto Comedy Hour, everyone! I’m here all week.”

date: 2012-05-16 12:37:35

Tea with Terrorists is the alarming title of Sameena Zehra’s one-woman show and while she does eventually get round to the extraordinary true story of how she once sipped Darjeeling on her porch with a band of armed outlaws, it’s the ramble around her family tree in the preceding hour that ...

date: 2012-05-16 11:37:48

Photographer Justin de Villeneuve is best known for having launched the career of iconic supermodel Twiggy. An exhibition of his work opening at Proud Galleries tomorrow includes some of the best examples from his portfolio and is an album of faces of the Sixties.

date: 2012-05-16 11:25:21

Where there’s Falstaff there’s food. And Robert Carsen’s new staging of Verdi’s final operatic masterpiece plays like an ode to gastronomical excess.

date: 2012-05-16 11:10:59

Model Agyness Deyn is to play a farmer in a bleak drama set in rural Scotland.

date: 2012-05-16 08:00:21

Last year Jayson Khun-Dkar read an advert in a newspaper while sitting on the bus. At the time, he could not read a single musical note and his experience as a singer amounted to a few bravado karaoke performances, which, though highly commended by his friends, gave no clue to an extraordinary ...

date: 2012-05-16 08:00:01

Police have refused a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in the Indonesian capital next month, bowing to pressure from Islamic groups who voiced strong objections to her "vulgar" style.

date: 2012-05-16 00:00:00

The art, music and technology festival returns to Manchester with a test of "stealth, cunning and adventure" gamers can play online courtesy of BAFTA nominees Blast Theory.

date: 2012-05-16 00:00:00

From the Berwickshire to Caithness, Galloway to Lewis, museums the length and breadth of Scotland open their doors for some very special events to celebrate Museums at Night.

date: 2012-05-15 23:00:21

Last year Jayson Khun-Dkar read an advert in a newspaper while sitting on the bus. At the time, he could not read a single musical note and his experience as a singer amounted to a few bravado karaoke performances, which, though highly commended by his friends, gave no clue to an extraordinary ...

date: 2012-05-15 23:00:01

One of the obvious problems with street art is that while it might try to highlight social ills, it can end up selling for many thousands of pounds to the elite that it supposedly rails against.