by Web Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Music
Barocking Rick Jones And lo, the early music virtuosi L’Arpeggiata cast a spell over a sold-out Wigmore Hall three nights before Christmas. Their sins of sub-jazz impro with Purcell, committed during their last visit in 2014, were forgiven; that local hero is still a... 
by Web Editor | Dec 22, 2015 | Visual Arts
Clare Finn Thursday, 22nd October saw the equivalent of the Oscars awarded for Conservation of our artistic and cultural heritage, in a ceremony hosted by the Royal Academy’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Organised by the... 
by Web Editor | Dec 20, 2015 | Drama
Pantomimes are in full throttle at the moment, the theatrical art form once in danger of disappearing is alive and well – if not in the West End of London. The Palladium pantomime is no more. London has other pantomimes, although there is more to theatre than... 
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2015 | Music
Is your journey really necessary? Amanda Holloway Anyone expecting a straightforward recital of Schubert’s Winterreise from bright young British tenor Allan Clayton at Shoreditch Church will have been broadsided by this wacky ‘reimagining’ for orchestra and voice by... 
by Web Editor | Dec 10, 2015 | Drama
Whats on Stage has just published an anonymous piece by someone who has worked Front of House, and clearly hopes to do so again given the anonymity. It makes interesting reading, and one point worth noting the writer makes is that it is all those people who receive... 