David Hare tells Esther McCarthy about writing a film on the early career and defection of Rudolf Nureyev.

Lucia Lacarra tells Jo Kerrigan how she was inspired to be a ballerina by a little wind-up jewellery box.

One of the biggest events in the arts calendar was due to be launched tomorrow as festival fever continued to grip Scotland’s capital city.

Hundreds of previously unpublished photographs of The Beatles are expected to go on show later in the year after being discovered in a university’s archives, officials said today.