In a programme of early 20th- and 21st-century music, it was in the contemporary works that the new cohort of teenagers were most impressive ...

Georgia Ellery of Jockstrap performing at the Barbican - Redferns/Burak Cingi It was something of a homecoming for London duo Jockstrap, who began life among the concrete pillars and passageways of ...

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director Thomas Ostermeier - once the enfant terrible of German theatre, who famously said that directors over 40 should stop working, himself now ...

Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois were the perfectly matched vocal soloists as James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a ferociously committed performance of his own Christma ...

This detailed, melancholy and moving RSC revival of Shakespeare’s festive-season comedy, originally staged in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2024, suffers a moderate case of bloat. Over the fine grain of his ...

No matter; this was a vintage Wilson programme, and the mastery of him and his players was immediately apparent in the softest, most magical sounds possible in Vaughan Williams’ infallible Fantasia on ...

The life of a horny, selfish, mixed-heritage teenager in Seventies Bromley is brought to rich and vivid life in Emma Rice’s production, which she adapted with Hanif Kureishi from his ...

Tucked away in the corner of the Barbican away from the dark gloom of wintery London is a kaleidoscopic slice of warm-hearted whimsy. The audience enter through draped curtains as if crossing the ...

A journey of the mind becomes as much one of the body. Love remains, along with memories and fantasies, but now the human beloved must share their place with something else: the mountain. Obsessive, ...

Galway-based Brú Theatre is presening Not a Word, a 'new piece of physical theatre about the forgotten Irish navvies who worked hard, faltered and slowly faded from memory.' Lyndsey Winship, The ...

There’s a delicious, haunting air of melancholy to the RSC’s spellbinding production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Yes, it’s Christmas, and boughs of twinkling greenery deck the stage. But with the ...