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A thoughtful debut treatise that finds intimacies in surprising places

A book talk becomes an enraged, engaged meeting about property and social division

Matthew Shindell explores our celestial neighbour through the ages

The inspirations for the directing...

Needy, truculent, and aggressive, an in-your-face stick of intensity and guilt-inducing melancholy, privileged young Amanda in...

We all need a break from time to time, especially now given the grim state of the world. So it’s not surprising that comedy is making something of...

There are a few perils to saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, as Janette Manrara discovered on this opening night of...

Five years ago, breaking dry January a few days early, I joined a throng of folks amongst the merch boxes and strip lights of Rough Trade East to...

Devoted fans may not learn anything that new about Noel Coward from Barnaby Thompson’s...

Lip-syncing has become the hobby of many a young TikToker, but only an intrepid professional would contemplate using the technique to...

This is a slight album in terms of length (under half an hour) but not in emotional insight. It’s absolutely...

“I am a poor student,” the Duke tells a smitten Gilda, in music that can barely keep a straight face, so plush is its melody, so oozing with...

Conversation just before this concert started concerned Verdi’s Il trovatore and the truism that it needs “the four greatest voices in...

Peerless interpretations of quartets by Mozart, Prokofiev and Brahms

Choral-orchestral performance meets contemporary dance in cross-cultural fusion

'All Star Gala' shines as much in the contributions of the regulars as in its guests

A handsome season opener doesn't quite stab where it counts

Choral-orchestral performance meets contemporary dance in cross-cultural fusion

Wagner's gallon in a pint pot with mixed results