UK prog-rockers Gracious! acquired their exclamation mark when their first album was released in July 1970. Up to this point, they were Gracious. Barney Bubbles, who designed their LP’s sleeve, added ...

When, in late 2021, I heard the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio, it truly felt like a heaven-sent gift of musical and vocal splendour after the long famine of our lockdown ...

Sky Atlantic’s adaptation, written by Joe Barton, adheres fairly closely to its source material, but inserts the additional characters of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and the author Alexander Pushkin, ...

Of the rest, it’s all premiere recordings, with only Sussex Landscape previously recorded. This is a dark and bleak wartime ...

The wonderful Mirra exists in its own space.” Back in August, that was the conclusion of my review of Benedicte Maurseth’s ...

My musical year isn’t primarily made up of albums – there are so many other ways of enjoying “New Music” – not to mention the ...

A leftfield, Tony-winning phenomenon on Broadway, Cole Escola’s comedy comes to London very much living up to the hype. This ...

Mark Rothko’s colour field paintings invite contemplation, reflection, quietude, association, and in British, Irish and ...

JB Priestley’s glorious pot shot at marital complacency in pre-First World War Bradford proves to be a tonic at a time of year where, for better or for worse, many people are forced to play happy ...

In a warehouse, Tube trains rumbling below, Noah, his sister Tamara and his (Gentile) girlfriend Maud, live in a disused ...

Eugene Jarecki’s forensic investigation concludes that Julian Assange’s character flaws are dwarfed by the high crimes he exposed, and can’t justify the cruel and unusual punishment of his cramped ...

Yes, I know.Maybe everything bitched about them is true; an eye-watering marketing push, cynically calculated, monied, etc.