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Dystopian theatre takes many forms — but this is the first which is a jury-room drama. Dawn King has previously explored the world of double-think...

It does need saying: the RPO may receive less frequent plaudits than some of their London peers, but this is a fine and wonderfully responsive...

There’s nothing quite like magic, live, up close and personal. Sure there are the TV spectaculars, the casino resort mega-shows and...

It is quite some years, if not decades, since the Edinburgh International Festival had any claim to be a festival of staged opera. This year we...

Hal Cruttenden, Pleasance Courtyard ★...

You know those people who claim to literally only like the very first music a band does at the start of their career, then kind “Meh” decades-...
Two quirky concertos – one for orchestra, though it might also be called a sinfonietta – and a big symphony: best of British but, more important,...

"I feel I owe you an explanation." That much James Thierrée concedes partway through his sprawling, freewheeling, dream-like, hallucinatory ...

The year 2024 will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the phenomenal Gabriel Fauré. For Tristan Raës and me, who have been...

Randy Feltface, Assembly George Square ★★...