I doubt that writer, James Ijames, had The Lion King’s box office in mind when he set out to create a Deep South, black and ...

One door closes, and another one opens. A lot. It’s extraordinary what value those two simple additions to the Royal Albert ...

If she decided to run for election, Suranne Jones would probably stand a good chance of winning. The Chadderton-born actress and producer has been a driving figure in British television ever since she ...

Playwright Mike Bartlett is, like many writers, a chronicler of both contemporary manners and of the state of the nation. In ...

In this strangely dreary recreation of 11th Century history, it’s not just grim oop north, it’s grim everywhere. King & ...

Does the orchestra that sways together play together? Quite apart from their (reliably gorgeous) sound, the tight-packed ...

How often is an orchestral concert perfect in every texture, every instrumental entry, every phrase? Wednesday's Phiharmonia ...

Handel probably wrote his cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno in 1707 while he was in the service of the Marquis of Ruspoli in Rome ...

During the opening seconds of Mirra, an unusual sound leaps out – a grunting. It’s integral to a shifting aural pallete which ...

Klaus Mäkelä teased out all the fragility and the sense of impending mortality in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, revealing a vision ...

There is, let’s be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfaction among some particularly well-heeled sections of ...

Wolf Alice are a band who consistently over-deliver. Their presentation is so staid, their cited influences so safe (The ...