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From his sickbed, after a nervous breakdown during basic training for the army, the 18-year-old Noel Coward started churning out plays,…

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…

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…

The Weaving is an Ango-Irish trio of accordion, voice, fiddle and piano. The voice belongs to Méabh Begley, from Kerry’s prominent musical…

“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…