Well, this is uncannily topical, thought I, as the opening number, “Where Is the Justice?” took me back to Jurisprudence seminars and caught plenty of the newspapers screaming headlines that very ...

There’s a particular joy in hearing a room full of children (and their adult minders) squealing with delight over fart gags, ...

Temple Songs opens with “Arc Still Bends”. The song begins with filigreed acoustic guitar and Laura Veirs singing “the arc still bends towards justice, right?” “So why I am still holding this fucking ...

Popular culture includes both will-o'-the-wisp confections, gone in 900 seconds pace Warhol’s aphorism, but can also creates ...

Olga Koch comes bounding on to the stage and tells us she needs a time machine to tell her story, to prevent someone being ...

Marsalis’ work is in 12 movements to mirror the structure of 12-bar blues, and traces themes like the circle of life and the triumph of freedom. Squeezed onto the stage of Edinburgh’s Usher Hall for ...

It's an uncanny coincidence that two operas about pain relief which goes wrong should premiere at Irish and Scottish festivals at the same time. Today also sees Simon Thompson's review of Missy ...

Is this the near-future? The premise of Ann Droid is that in place of our over-stretched social services, before long we may ...

The site unfolds as a series of themed fields, each one dressed to the hilt. There's the Caravanserai, Pete Bateman's higgledy-piggledy "festival within a festival", a shanty-town of old caravans, ...

You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the ...

Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd was my introduction to musical theatre. I was in my early 20s and a friend of mine had ...

One completely joyous moment has eclipsed all my other impressions of this Glyndebourne Entführung revival. By the end of Act ...