There is a jovial intensity about the Jeremy Ledbetter Trio. As they launch vivaciously into the second set of their visit to ...

One completely joyous moment has eclipsed all my other impressions of this Glyndebourne Entführung revival. By the end of Act ...

At every turn in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, references to other stories pop up. There are the murderous sexual shenanigans ...

Is this the near-future? The premise of Ann Droid is that in place of our over-stretched social services, before long we may ...

You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the ...

Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s Chad Smith (alto and C-melody saxophones), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson ...

Ish” is the name of the lead character in this movie, but it also might be a suffix attached to adjectives describing it.

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very ...

Not that Celeste is a copy of anyone by any means: her voice is very much her own with its own strengths and mannerisms, and her gothic cabaret-tinged style and presentation doubly so. On her second ...

Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd was my introduction to musical theatre. I was in my early 20s and a friend of mine had ...

Even for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the world, WOMAD 2026 ...

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating. The globalisation of music culture, from ultra mainstream to underground, in the ...