The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means.

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From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter Inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the ...

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What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

The National Health Service was established 77 years ago this month. Resident doctors are about to strike for more pay, long ...

Billie Eilish may be one of the biggest names in new music, but here at the O2 Arena, she’s just Billie – the one who stares ...