There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death ...
During a false start to “Billy Don’t Fall”, on Sunday night at Birmingham’s iconic Town Hall, Sananda Maitreya took the opportunity to address the packed house before him. He noted that there’s now a ...
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s so very different about Belfast and Glasgow, both of which I have visited in the last few weeks, compared to, say, Manchester or Birmingham. Sure, there’s the ...
Am I dreaming? Did I really see a living composer of contemporary music given a prolonged standing ovation for conducting his own works in the Bridgewater Hall, twice over?
On paper, this RSC revival of Ella Hickson’s 2013 adaptation sounds just the ticket: a feminist spin on the familiar JM ...
The youthful subject of A Complete Unknown, which closes with him ‘going electric’ at Newport as the culmination of a rainbow ...
Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre ...
The first words are spoken after “Worldwide Epiphany,” the 20th song. “Thank you” is all Todd Rundgren says. With this, the ...
The Irish diaspora in London were out in force for Emma Doran’s appearance at Leicester Square Theatre. Her online work and ...
Night CRIÚ evokes clandestine ceremonies in forest glades, covert rituals taking place in the depths of a cave. Crepuscular ...
Robin Holloway is a composer and, till his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British ...
If the distance from Festen to The Railway Children looks like a long stretch of track, remember that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ...