In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having ...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I’ve sometimes started by celebrating youth, and it’s ...

O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing ...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed ...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight, that made The Split’s two-parter ...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he reckoned with en route.

Except that I almost wanted Ruth Jones and James Corden to put a bomb under their famous creation and blow it apart with key ...

From the iconic Pop anthems that dominated this Summer, to the Pop Punk resurgence that is still going strong, it’s been an ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had ...

Someone told me recently that Netflix subscribers can view just 22 films made before 1980. I've no idea if this is true ...

Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian ...