What happens if you’ve overstepped your mandate?” aristocrat-architect Cesar Catalin (Adam Driver) is asked. “I’ll apologise, ...

Kwei Armah chose to end his tenure at the Young Vic by directing this soggy musical by Elvis Costello (songs/lyrics) and the American playwright Sarah Ruhl (book).

If there was ever a time for the inevitable "Rach Three” (piano concerto, not symphony) in the composer’s 150th anniversary ...

Only this pianist could possibly follow Pavel Kolesnikov's revelatory take on Schubert's crowning glory, the B flat Sonata D960 the previous Sunday. Leonskaja, his friend and mentor, has of course ...

In 2016, Amy Liptrot made a fine publishing debut with a memoir about her alcoholism, The Outrun. Now she has co-written a ...

The Velvet Underground first played before an audience on 11 December 1965. A year earlier, their two founder members Lou Reed and John Cale were beginning a period of schlepping around New York and ...

This autumn, the Philharmonia’s “Nordic Soundscapes” season promises music suffused with the epic vistas, and weather, of ...

If audience rection is anything to go by, Kahchun Wong’s season-opening first concert officially in post as principal ...

The National’s new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier stage. But it has ...

Before Joe Rogan gained fame for his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, he has been, variously, a comic,  presenter of goofball television shows and an analyst of UTC bouts. Now with  his Netflix ...

Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual ...

That phenomenal technique in trills, runs and top notes remained, but it’s surprising how soon the more heroic tone to the middle range emerged – in Weber’s “Ocean! Thou mighty monster” from Oberon, ...