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 ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded excellent productions (and some duds, too), but as often as not it's a particular ...

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

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

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.

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for women artists, so forgive me for focusing solely on them.

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

Since its revival in 2020, All Creatures Great and Small has drawn big audiences internationally and become Channel 5’s ...

There are no white-sheeted ghosts in this year’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. The BBC’s annual adaptations of MR James’s best ...

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