RECENT years have seen a proliferation of autobiographical writing from performers who emerged from the frenetic days of punk ...

• Two charismatic names in London this week are the cellist Abel Selaocoe, interestingly paired with a choir at Wigmore Hall, ...

In the latest in his series on eminent Victorians, Neil Titley turns his attention to the Australian operatic diva Dame Nellie Melba ...

The Brightening Air (a quote from WB Yeats’ poem The Song of Wandering Aengus) treads a familiar path. Sibling rivalries ...

He is joined in the Basement Bar by the sympathetic and expressive duo of Sam Watts on piano and Jack Garside on bass.

Singaporean playwright Joel Tan’s Scenes from a Repatriation follows the fictional return of a 1,000-year-old statue from ...

The Gang of Three opens just after Wilson announces his shock resignation, leaving a power vacuum in the Labour government.

As you will recall, Floyd was stopped on suspicion of trying to use a counterfeit $20 to buy some cigarettes. There was some ...

ASKED what it takes to sing the taxing, long-duration works of Wagner, the soprano Birgit Nilsson famously replied “a comfortable pair of shoes”: a musical accessory that may also prove useful for ...

THERE are still over five weeks before the transfer window opens, and the gossip columns are already busy feeding fans’ insatiable appetite for which players are going where. One rumour that has been ...

IT’S not quite mission impossible, but it is certainly a mission against all odds as Arsenal look to topple the best club to ever play in the UEFA Women’s Champions League if they are going to make it ...

SIR Keir Starmer has been blocked from moving his constituency office into a building run by a disabled organisation. The prime minister – who is also the MP for Holborn and St Pancras – was told by ...