Lenny Henry’s latest foray into live performance takes him back to his comedy roots, after several years doing theatre and ...

Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

Recorded over four intense weeks of work and play in a little studio in Chiswick – on the periphery of their old London stomping grounds – and folding four songs from the Hackney Diamonds sessions ...

Phoebe Ladenburg and Adelle Leonce in ‘Sting’. Award-winning playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s gruelling new drama, Sting, which is currently playing in the Young Vic’s studio space, takes its place in ...

One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...

There was so much to be thankful for throughout the three days I spent at the Aldeburgh Festival this year. First, of course, ...

Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.

Judging from her second album, young country singer Willow Avalon has kissed her fair share of frogs. She doesn’t let them ...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...

Ben Ockrent’s Relics had me hooked from the moment the safety curtain started rising: a metal number with a banner of packing ...

Calcutta plays an important supporting role in Satyajit Ray’s The Big City (Mahanagar), though we only catch glimpses of it ...

It’s the summer vacation and eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her three brothers have moved into a new house on ...