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Hey-hey! Alright! The standard greeting of Kendall Roy will be much missed, along with all the other regular joys of...

Sometimes a production which isn’t trying to do anything too clever can be quite refreshing. Sinéad O’Neill's revival of...

What’s better than having a star soloist on the billing for a concert? Three star soloists! The Royal Scottish National Orchestra billed this...

John Kearns' comedy is what you might call niche; absurdist,...

Council Skies was created in Noel Gallagher’s new studio, partly during lockdown, an attempt to reconnect with where he came from,...

Gardener Narvel (Joel Edgerton) sniffs soil the way Blue Velvet’s Frank inhaled gas, finding erasure and release. Following Ethan Hawke’s...

Taking a book and lifting it from the page so that it works on the stage is daunting. When the target audience happens to be ...

Tunisian lives unfold over a working day in Erige Sehiri’s debut Under the Fig Trees, with fig-picking the backdrop to furtive, sparking...

Masterminded by writer-director Robert Rodriguez...

The audience questions are when Kieran Yates’ talk boils over. Her book All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In considers housing policy through...