This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...

Marina Diamandis is a proper pop star, brilliantly full-on, off on her own thing. The Welsh singer is primarily known for ...

If, like me, chamber music isn’t your most frequent home, there are bound to be revelations of what for many are known masterpieces. Mine in recent years have involved Brahms, a composer I love more ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

The first series of The Gold in 2023 was received rapturously, though apparently it only told one half of the story of the ...

In those seemingly long-ago times of loneliness and lockdown, artists around the world invited us into their kitchens and ...

Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should ...

The Bush Theatre is becoming a garden centre. Earlier this year, the venue staged Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, ...

If you’re horse mad or merely an every-four-years Olympic fan, you already know Nick Skelton’s story. Equestrianism can ...

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint ...

Little Simz clearly believes in meeting situations head on. Her sixth full-length album kicks off, in every sense of the ...