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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…

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

In the 1990s, the world of electronic music was a frontier where the unimaginable often happened. These were the days of early Aphex…

In 2016, when Richard Jones's production of Musorgsky's original 1869 Boris Godunov first amazed us, Putin had invaded Crimea but not the…

The latest brainwave of director Richard Linklater is wonderfully simple: don’t do another remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film, A bout…

One of the great problems with modern music criticism is that it hasn’t got past the models of the second half of the last century, and…

The typical Jason Statham character is a taciturn loner with a dark and secret past, maybe as a hitman, a safe-cracker or a former member…