It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...

Marina Diamandis is a proper pop star, brilliantly full-on, off on her own thing. The Welsh singer is primarily known for ...

If, like me, chamber music isn’t your most frequent home, there are bound to be revelations of what for many are known masterpieces. Mine in recent years have involved Brahms, a composer I love more ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

The first series of The Gold in 2023 was received rapturously, though apparently it only told one half of the story of the ...

Eva Quartet are four outstanding Bulgarian voices of polyphonic purity and depth, drawn from the legendary choir Le Mystere ...

Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should ...

The Bush Theatre is becoming a garden centre. Earlier this year, the venue staged Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, ...

If you’re horse mad or merely an every-four-years Olympic fan, you already know Nick Skelton’s story. Equestrianism can ...

When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for ...