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?

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre ...

To St James’s Piccadilly to hear the young pianist Misha Kaploukhii give an impressive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Greenwich Chamber Orchestra. Kaploukhii is a ...

Robin Holloway is a composer and, till his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British ...

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 ...

The Irish diaspora in London were out in force for Emma Doran’s appearance at Leicester Square Theatre. Her online work and ...

If the distance from Festen to The Railway Children looks like a long stretch of track, remember that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ...

The first words are spoken after “Worldwide Epiphany,” the 20th song. “Thank you” is all Todd Rundgren says. With this, the ...

Kelly Reichardt has a thing about losers. You often see them in her films. It's the failure of American individualism that ...

Night CRIÚ evokes clandestine ceremonies in forest glades, covert rituals taking place in the depths of a cave. Crepuscular ...