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War Horse was without a doubt one of the boldest experiments in the National Theatre’s history. As Tom Morris, co-director with Marianne…

It's nine years since soprano Lise Davidsen gave a Wigmore Hall audience her first credentials as a recitalist, in true partnership with a…

Whereas the more venerable European jazz festivals, founded from the 1960s onwards, are typically faced with challenges of mid- or later…

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Freshly-exhumed from the vaults, this latest Children's Film Foundation selection follows an established template. We get nine pacy short…

If you find endless riches in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's words and Richard Strauss's score for their "Comedy for Music", as I do, you'll be…