My goal was to take the Messiah as if it had been written yesterday,” the conductor and eminent French harpsichordist ...

If your heart sinks every time a Shakespeare funny-man enters, here comes the RSC to put an unforced grin on your face. Its ...

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With teasing timing, the latest revival of a Tom Stoppard play at the Hampstead Theatre arrived just hours after his funeral, ...

Bat away your lurgy, stop that coffin’ and get up to Finsbury Park for a laugh laden, ballad blitzing, sensational spoof starring the toothsome Transylvanian. If that sentence is boiling your blood ...

Towards the end of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's run-through of their old album Howl, bassist Robert Levon Been told the ...

Chinese-American director Bing Liu’s first feature – his Minding the Gap, a wonderful documentary about himself and his ...

Wonder is a word that is used too often in theatre, somewhat emptied of meaning by marketing’s emasculating of language. It’s ...

One of this year’s best music books, Songs in the Key of MP3 by Liam Inscoe-Jones, paints a picture of musicians of the ...

The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the ...

For everyone who thinks that the country house drama ought to be spelled without the "o", there's Fackham Hall, an energetic ...

In all honestly, 2025 has not been a vintage year for new recorded music and there certainly seems to have been a significant ...