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.

Since its revival in 2020, All Creatures Great and Small has drawn big audiences internationally and become Channel 5’s ...

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 ...

Travis arrived onstage with the theme tune from classic sitcom Cheers as an accompaniment. The cavernous OVO Hydro might not ...

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