Entertainment

Grammy Award-winning 53-year-old Madonna to tour for first time in three years.

The Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy star collected the first of two lifetime achievement awards at the

Daisy Bowie-Sell finds Barney Norris's new play an eloquent study of the tumultuous relationship

Ai Weiwei and the architects Herzog & de Meuron, the dream team behind the Beijing Olympics "Bird's

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group played a yin and yang concert of light and dark.

On Charles Dickens's 200th anniversary, Philip Womack celebrates his great novels

Russell Maliphant's The Rodin Project began with the promise of magic, writes Laura Thompson.

D'Angelo looked and sounded fantastic during his gig at Brixton Academy, writes James Lachno.

Prince Charles pays tribute to 'one of the great writers of English language'

The Prince of Wales lays a wreath at the grave of Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey as actor

Ten students, from China to Middlesex, have been chosen from an international longlist of

Wonderful musical teamwork and star solo moments delight a Royal Festival Hall crowd.

Mating rituals are laid bare in this perceptive three-hander, says Charles Spencer

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

Yayoi Kusama, the legendary Japanese artist whose dotty patterns inspired Damien Hirst's spot

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's most recent, playful art installation is created by children

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's most recent, playful art installation is created by children

The Best of Russia 2011 photography competition winners.

This revival of Bloody Poetry is possessed of humour and a healthily moderated sense of spleen,

The Black Keys' feelgood songs for feelbad times are built to send arenas jumping, writes Rob

It would be a shame if lily-livered parents brought to an end centuries of slapstick humour, says

Lucy Jones reviews the first episode in Gok Wan's new series, Gok's Teens: the Naked Truth.

Lucy Jones reviews Death Unexplained, a new three-part series following a London coroner and her

The main attraction in Master Class is Tyne Daly's performance as Maria Callas, writes Charles

Dame Judi Dench said she enjoyed a "love affair with India" while making her latest film, The Best

Over the last 400 years our attitude to sex has veered between primness and depravity, finds

The Aged P - or Aged Parent - from Great Expectations, is one of Charles Dickens's finest comic

Benjamin Evans on the latest paperbacks, from the life of Edward Thomas to death in

As the adaptation of his novel One Day is released on DVD, writer David Nicholls explains why Billy

The Prince of Wales will hear reading from Great Expectations to mark 200th anniversary of

Charles Dickens, who was born on 7 February 1812, has his 200th anniversary commemorated in a new

The internet has become a hunting ground for psychopaths, explains forensic psychologist Kerry

JD Sharpe's Oliver Twisted is a dramatic and gory re-working of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver

David Nicholls, the author of One Day, shares his tips.

Miriam Margolyes says Dickens behaved like 'an abuser' in a provocative and humorous new book.

Magyk is the first volume in Angie Sage's arithmetically auspicious Septimus Heap series.

Secular society can learn from the faithful, says Rowland Manthorpe

Nigel Jones salutes a history of the commanders and commoners who made the British Army

Royal Mail will commemorate 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens with new stamps featuring The

Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol, is one of the best known of all literary creations and is the

Illustrator Quentin Blake talks to The Telegraph about his love of Charles Dickens and being the

Illustrator Quentin Blake on how his love of Charles Dickens led him to become the illustrator for

It doesn't matter that youngsters don't devour Dickens - as long as they read something, says Jojo

Charles Dickens is celebrated in an imaginative and witty dictionary by John Sutherland.

Prince of Wales to lay wreath to mark 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth.

Ian Thomson salutes the Jewish literary genius who predicted the rise of Nazi Germany, reviewing

On Charles Dickens's 200th anniversary, Philip Womack celebrates his great novels

Prince Charles pays tribute to 'one of the great writers of English language'