In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having ...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I’ve sometimes started by celebrating youth, and it’s ...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he reckoned with en route.

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed ...

O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing ...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight, that made The Split’s two-parter ...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for women artists, so forgive me for focusing solely on them.

From the iconic Pop anthems that dominated this Summer, to the Pop Punk resurgence that is still going strong, it’s been an ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had ...

Except that I almost wanted Ruth Jones and James Corden to put a bomb under their famous creation and blow it apart with key ...

A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh attention.