In many ways, 2024 has been a stellar year for New Music. There have certainly been plenty of albums released that could ...

Broadway shows sometimes hit the West End like, well, like a comet, burning brightly but briefly (Spring Awakening, for ...

Can men really love each other – without sex? Or, to put it another way, how many different forms of male love can you name?

It’s difficult to believe that the last stop-motion Wallace and Gromit short graced our screens way back in 2008. Describing the pair’s new outing as a return to form is unnecessary: this duo never ...

When does a concert become a ceremony? You generally visit the Barbican for art rather than ritual. Yet, during the Academy of Ancient Music’s performance last night, the bulk of a packed house still ...

Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku) is one of Czech cinema’s best-loved pohadky, or "fairy tales".

How do you refresh a masterpiece? Bringing back his first and still greatest hit, Swan Lake, Matthew Bourne seems to have ...

Kenny Barron’s Beyond This Place is glorious. Whereas I’ve found some of the more talked-about albums of 2024 either been ...

The Young Vic has opened under a new artistic director with a puzzle play. The puzzle is, why stage this piece today?

Vanilla Fudge could provoke a strong reaction. Writing about them in 1982, Tom Hibbert – then best-known for his ...

It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film ...