This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 when James Joyce ...

"When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an attempt to extol the virtues of a good Presbyterian work ...

Death can be a powerful driver for comedy, as countless stand-ups and sitcom writers will affirm, but it has to be ...

A look at Darling on its 60th anniversary offers a sobering reality check on the "Swinging Sixties", a reminder of the ...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions for the price of one. Other than being on the same bill, Edward Burra and ...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but ...

Tchaikovsky has precisely two operas in the standard repertoire (including The Queen of Spades, currently playing at ...

The opening and closing concerts of a season tend to be statements of intent – to pursue a path of exploration or (latterly) ...

Jarvis Cocker is proudly holding the No 1 trophy handed to him on the day Pulp topped the album chart for the first time in ...

Had a passer-by from outwith Newcastle been asked to guess what was taking place at St James' Park, football would have been ...