TONY BURKE plots the career of the legendary Senegalese band from Dakar nightclubs to Glastonbury

RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival

GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie

MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender

New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand

PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries