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Plantoid, Moth Club review - Brighton-based band showcases a penchant for jazz

Kieron Tyler |

“Jazz,” exclaims an audience member just after Plantoid launch into “Ultivatum Cultivation,” tonight’s second song – also the second song on the band’s recent second LP Flare.

Witch Fever + Cowboy Hunters, Bodega, Nottingham - an enthralling night with two sets of rising stars

Thomas H. Green
It’s the first date of Manchester rockers Witch Fever’s European tour and things are off to an iffy start. Drummer Annabelle Joyce has food poisoning…

Elisabeth Leonskaja, Wigmore Hall review - fantasy and rigour

David Nice
The master pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus impressed upon Elisabeth Leonskaja the maxim "don't look for yourself in the music, but find the…

The Tasters review - spring greens time for Hitler

James Saynor
Do we really care what Hitler liked to eat? Well, here’s a film that does, so I can reveal an answer. Typical meals might have included chick pea…

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The Love that Remains review - regret, joy and giant rooster nightmares

Helen Hawkins
Hlynur Pálmason creates an entrancing, novel form of film-as-memory

David Hockney, Serpentine North review - step into digital darkness

Sarah Kent
A frieze of iPad pictures that sends you hurrying for the door

Bach's St John Passion, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Whelan, St-Martin-in-the-Fields review - high drama, fine detail

Boyd Tonkin
The great Gospel tragedy rendered bright, swift and fierce

Hayes, The Common Ground Ensemble, Koko review - a whirligig of exuberance and joy

Rachel Halliburton
Irish fiddler sets ego aside and completely surrenders to the music

The Holy Rosenbergs, Menier Chocolate Factory review - still timely and thought-provoking

aleks.sierz
Excellent revival of Ryan Craig’s 2011 play about an British-Jewish family in crisis

Ballet Black at 25, Linbury Theatre review - a 21-year-old's dream comes of age

Jenny Gilbert
After 25 years and counting, Cassa Pancho's fine company remains essential

Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, National Portrait Gallery review - identity put on display

Sarah Kent
Photographs of California’s queer community in the 1990s

Unfamiliar, Netflix review - funerals in Berlin

Adam Sweeting
Spies, lies and surprises in gripping German thriller

David Byrne, SEC Armadillo, Glasgow review - a theatrical spectacle with fiery energy

Jonathan Geddes
The former Talking Heads singer mixed old and new alike in a compelling show.

Rebels and Heroines, Davis, Richmond, O'Sullivan, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin review - straight to the operatic heart of the matter

David Nice
World-class Irish artists celebrate International Women's Day with poise and passion

A Private Life review - promising French noir fails to deliver

Saskia Baron
Director Rebecca Ziotowski gives Jodie Foster a free rein in French

Music Reissues Weekly: This Can’t Be Today - A Trip Through The US Psychedelic Underground 1977-1988

Kieron Tyler
Significant box-set examination of an important strand of America’s pre-grunge musical landscape

The Bride! review - feminist Frankenstein is a radical riot

Demetrios Matheou
Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale are a scream as lovestruck monsters on the run

Harry Styles is back with reflection and rhythm on 'Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.'

Ellie Roberts
A muted approach that will likely age well

Ozone, RSNO, Edusei, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow review - unrequited love and unexpected jazz

Simon Thompson
Glitzy Rachmaninov and a glittering Zemlinsky ‘Mermaid’

Erasure, Goodwood Art Foundation review - in the bleak midwinter

Mark Sheerin
Three artists explore global concerns in rural West Sussex

Broken Glass, Young Vic review - exaggerated version of a modern classic

aleks.sierz
Timely revival of Arthur Miller’s 1994 study of anti-Semitism, marriage and psychology

CMAT, Barrowland, Glasgow review - a charismatic and life-affirming show

Jonathan Geddes
The 'Dunboyne Diana' mixed great songs with star power and cheeky humour

Drive to Survive, Season 8, Netflix review - hi-tech and low cunning in the paddock

Adam Sweeting
Big beasts and big bucks battle for supremacy

Birgitta Trotzig: Queen review - shadow lands

India Lewis
Saskia Vogel brings a darker than dark tale of rural grief to English for the first time

Scream 7 review - snooze

Nick Hasted
The ironic slasher franchise's 30th anniversary finds it timid and tired

Tracey Emin: A Second Life, Tate Modern review - self-obsession put to good use

Sarah Kent
The rise and rise of an artist

Ukraine Unbroken, Arcola Theatre review - telling snapshots of a population at war

Helen Hawkins
Five playwrights conjure the Ukrainian experience, from 2014 to today

Mahler's Second Symphony, BBCSSO, Runnicles, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - grand gestures and overarching arguments

Simon Thompson
A great conductor returns in triumph to crown an orchestra’s anniversary celebrations

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