DON BUCAFELO is a joyful number drawing on Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Silent Night is a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera with sketchy characters, while Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko shines in Salome
BATMAN trilogy director Christopher Nolan's new, Spielbergian science fiction film is about humans encountering alien life forms, played out from a family perspective
THERE are universally excellent performances in a Jacobean witch trial play that is part tragedy, part rustic comedy and horror story; incestuous drama 'Tis Pity She's A Whore cynically lures punters in with the promise of nudity and Gemma Jones is splendid in Sheridan's The Rivals
JAMES NESBITT's harrowing new thriller feels tragically real; the foul-mouthed Fulfords are back in Life Is Toff and Grayson Perry examines identity in an affecting, involving series
FEVER PITCH writer Nick Hornby recreates a rich, believable Swinging Sixties with his homegrown Lucille Ball, a feisty Lancashire lass tackling fame, friendship and love
A STASH of yellowing letters found in a dusty attic and dating from the Second World War have inspired a fascinating new book about the battles fought on the home front as well as abroad.
ANIMAL-LOVING stars urged revellers to spare a thought for pets on bonfire night as they took to the red carpet to support Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.