There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death ...

During a false start to “Billy Don’t Fall”, on Sunday night at Birmingham’s iconic Town Hall, Sananda Maitreya took the opportunity to address the packed house before him. He noted that there’s now a ...

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s so very different about Belfast and Glasgow, both of which I have visited in the last few weeks, compared to, say, Manchester or Birmingham. Sure, there’s the ...

Am I dreaming? Did I really see a living composer of contemporary music given a prolonged standing ovation for conducting his own works in the Bridgewater Hall, twice over?

To St James’s Piccadilly to hear the young pianist Misha Kaploukhii give an impressive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Greenwich Chamber Orchestra. Kaploukhii is a ...

Issued in September 1974, Hall of the Mountain Grill was Hawkwind’s fifth LP. The follow-up to 1973’s live double album The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London, it found the band in a position ...

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre ...

Where the latter was a high-spirited and witty take on a game of chess, Miracle in the Gorbals mixes Glaswegian social realism with religious symbolism. It struck a chord with the wartime public, and ...

If the distance from Festen to The Railway Children looks like a long stretch of track, remember that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ...

Back in 2003, when Mick Herron was a humble sub-editor, his debut novel was published, the first of what became a four-volume ...

Robin Holloway is a composer and, till his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British ...

How can you tell she’s an alien?” asks Don (Aidan Delbis, an impressive neuro-divergent actor) of his cousin Teddy (the ...