by Web Editor | Jul 17, 2016 | Music
Knight capers Christopher Morley The CBSO’s concert-season and Edward Gardner’s tenure as principal guest conductor could not have ended on a more joyous note – a scintillating performance of Verdi’s final opera, which had a packed Symphony Hall setting the rafters... 
by Web Editor | Jul 14, 2016 | Drama
There is a discussion taking place in the press and on Facebook about bad behaviour in theatre as a result of what happened after a couple brought in some Chicken McNuggets to a performance of Dr Faustus starring the Game of Thrones actor Kit Harrington. The result... 
by Web Editor | Jul 14, 2016 | Music
Hearts on fire Robert Thicknesse Pity and terror: the basics of tragedy, pursued with ferocious focus by Verdi’s great 1853 opera. We all have a little chuckle when Trovatore is mentioned, of course (and the audience gamely manages a few more during the show): it’s... 
by Web Editor | Jul 12, 2016 | Drama
William Russell At 91 Thelma Ruby is going back on stage in her one woman show to launch the Festival 46 season at the King’s Head theatre in Islington later this month. Star of revue, musicals, films and plays – she has done pretty well everthing in her... 
by Web Editor | Jul 7, 2016 | Music
Just like Germans Robert Thicknesse Outside the Festival Hall, the billing for a conference: “The Establishment is amassing wealth and power, and there is nothing to stop it.” Had Slavoj Žižek and little Owen Jones broadened their horizons, they’d have noticed that... 