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This follow-up to 2022’s Man vs Bee finds Rowan Atkinson reprising the role of Trevor Bingley, a bumbling no-hoper who is somehow still at…

There is, of course, a long tradition in this country of Christmas Messiah performances – but it’s not one I’ve ever previously…

Ask many a boomer about their scariest childhood memory, and they may very well cite the extraordinary 1957 East German production, The…

Filmmakers Powell and Pressburger were not the first to portray ballet dancing as a fatal obsession and choreographer Matthew Bourne won’t…

The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, with…

  Image ¡Feliz Navidad! – Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas Kölner Akademie/…

In all honestly, 2025 has not been a vintage year for new recorded music and there certainly seems to have been a significant paucity of…

That young person sitting next to you on the bus, earbuds wedged in, an enigmatic, Mona Lisa-ish smile on their face - are they listening…

Of all the problems a band could face, fighting for room onstage with a Christmas tree must be far down the list of possibilities. Yet…