We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts…

When news first filtered through that the Scouse comedian John Bishop’s marital woes were going to be turned into a film, my brain lazily…

On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my destination – St Peter’s…

“One pure sonofabitch 45. The record to put them high in the national charts. Top five at least.” In October 1976, the weekly music paper…

There is nothing to compare with the visceral experience of hearing a massed choir – in this case the 230-strong combined forces of the…

Tim Crouch is one of our great theatrical alchemists. Most famously – in his conceptual show An Oak Tree – he creates a portrait of grief…

Image Stravinsky: Late Works Cappella Amsterdam, Nord Nederlands Orkest/Daniel Reuss (…

Spanning centuries, cultures and an ocean, Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo’s new musical, Ballad Lines (say it fast and it sounds like…

It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its…

Location, location, location... a tangible sense of place and local identity can make or break a TV drama, and Under Salt Marsh …