In one sense it was a New Year’s Day “nearly”, just stopping short of giving us the already great Irish lyric-dramatic ...

Mk.gee has been an unexpected thread in a year of music that’s pulled me in many different directions, punctuating the need ...

Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...