Finborough theatre, LondonThis two-hander, translated from the French, has a hypnotic narrative power as it considers the refugees’ dangerous journeyTwo men stand at opposite ends of the stage. One wants to cross the waters, represented by a mirrored shard on the floor. The other bars his way, demanding money or sounding doubtful warnings of the

Once Europe’s most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn’t getting any sleep‘It could be a massive failure,” says Peter Doig with a laugh. The 63-year-old painter is worrying about his looming show at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Only very ra

‘I call Kareem a horseman as the word cowboy has racist connotations. It’s what enslavers called Black horse handlers – whereas white handlers were cowhands’I came across Philadelphia’s Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club online. Black horsemen hadn’t really seeped into the public consciousness at that time, but as soon as I found a pictu

Hot off winning two Grammys on Sunday, Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. has sold the rights for part of his song catalogue to a prominent music investment company.

Komedia, BrightonOutrageous comedy, self-glamorising songs and self-ironic ridiculousness in abundance from a comic with a sharp sense of her own daftnessYou mellow with age, they say. So whither, now she’s 31, the comedy of...

Tron theatre, GlasgowFour girls gather around a pentangle in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, which captures the vulnerability of adolescenceWhen you see the gang of teenagers who form a midnight coven in Maryam...

A researcher argues that animals understand how to live well better than their too-brainy counterpartsFriedrich Nietzsche claimed that humankind was “a fantastic animal that has to fulfil one more condition of existence than...

Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender rolesRuth Wilson has called a new stage role in which she will perform the same scene repeatedly for 24 hours straight an “extraordinary, once...

Violence simmers beneath restrained prose in the follow-up to Stay With Me, a portrait of domestic strife and political tensions in NigeriaAs with her lauded debut Stay With Me, in Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s second novel domestic...

Giant teddy bear Bordesley is put in charge of Birmingham city council’s £3bn budget in Stan’s Cafe’s fun new production All Our Money“It came from a place of … what is the worst idea you could possibly have for a...