It’s a story being repeated the world over – apex predators such as lynx, wolves and bears hunted to extinction, followed by ...

Edward Simon shows again on this new album of re-imagined songs from Venezuela what a very fine pianist he is. His touch and ...

Mandy, Indiana are a Mancunian four-piece with a French singer who's based in Berlin. They make a lot of noise.

A right wing populist, a master manipulator of the media, he appears to be immune to the long accepted norms of professional behaviour. Foul-mouthed and a bully, but backed by an oligarch, he rides ...

Another interesting thing about the endless flux of the streaming era is that, for all that it’s supposed to homogenise and ...

There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring ...

"How can we sleep for grief?", asks the brilliant and agitated Thomasina Coverly (the dazzling Isis Hainsworth) during the first act of Arcadia, a question that will come to haunt this magisterial ...

From his sickbed, after a nervous breakdown during basic training for the army, the 18-year-old Noel Coward started churning out plays, many of which were never staged. The Rat Trap, finished in 1918, ...

It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its premiere, so it’s certainly time for a fresh look at it. And ...

Spanning centuries, cultures and an ocean, Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo’s new musical, Ballad Lines (say it fast and it ...

Nothing about this album suggests that it’s a debut. Shaking Hand’s eponymous introductory shot is so assured it sounds as if an awful lot of groundwork has preceded its appearance. As it happens – ...

On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...