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Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an e...
This frothy bio-fantasy about the 18th Century composer...
War Pony review - life on the Pine Ridge reservation in sout...
Set on the lands of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota, War...
Princess Ida, OAE, Wilson, QEH review - musical brilliance u...
Sullivan’s score for his eighth collaboration with Gilbert is vintage work, mostly equal to the splendid sentinels flanking it, Iolanthe...
Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery review - living in a materia...
It is fitting that I watch Otobong Nkanga’s performance on a stranger’s smartphone screen. Solid Maneuvers, 2015, is about...
Album: McFly - Power to Play
When McFly returned to our loudspeakers in the summer of 2020 with Young Dumb Thrills, the record marked their first in a decade. The...
Bezuidenhout, The English Concert, St Martin-in-the-Fields r...
An evening of Mozart favourites in a landmark church on a sunny evening: that might suggest a perfect recipe for gently soporific tourist...
Patriots, Noël Coward Theatre review - crash-bang brilliant...
With apocalyptic floods pouring through the Kakhovka dam, and millions of Ukrainians displaced or bereaved, it doesn’t feel decent to be laughing...
First Person: composer Kate Whitley on a new work for the Bo...
We at the Multi-Story Orchestra have been writing a new piece of music about social media. In one of the writing sessions I remember one of our...
Le Tigre, Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow review - letting out...
There was a youthful tinge to the jubilant chorus of “here we, here we, here we f****** go” that greeted Le Tigre arriving on stage. The band may...
Yours Unfaithfully, Jermyn Street Theatre review - resonant...
Miles Malleson, known as an inter-war character actor who popped up in numerous small roles on stage and screen, was also a...