My name is Winston Smith and only good things happen to me.” With a name shared with the everyman protagonist of George ...

Working in London, producer Adrian Corker, percussionist George Barton, and Japanese singer Tujiko Noriko came up with a new ...

Sir Mark Elder was back on the scene of past triumphs last night as he returned to the Hallé at the Bridgewater Hall – and he ...

Mavis Staples, the woman to whom a young Bob Dylan proposed marriage when they met at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and ...

Given that the film industry is a fairly vain business, it follows that every movie is to some extent a vanity project. So it ...

There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death ...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche ...

After cancelling his Birmingham gig an hour before curtain-up due to illness, the anticipatory hype around whether Benson ...

Emotional truth backed up by musical sophistication is what saves Puccini’s drama about a geisha deserted by an American ...

It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually ...

Where the latter was a high-spirited and witty take on a game of chess, Miracle in the Gorbals mixes Glaswegian social ...

Robin Holloway is a composer and, until his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British ...