Writer Ellen Brammar and co-directors Luke Skilbeck and Paul Smith have created something of a cartoon from new play Modest. It is all caricature, camp

Wonderful to see a packed theatre buzzing with anticipation. The lights dim, evocative music begins, then blackout! Eight actors enter, and so the journey begins

Apart from Parliamentarians, who must be wide-eyed innocents, most people responded to the revelation Boris Johnson told lies with a weary, “well, duh”. One cannot

Never before had Bryn Terfel sung a role in Russian, let alone tackle the greatest in that country’s great history of opera. Yet this magnificent

May be out of my depth here. Lapsed Catholicism and listening to the Today programme may not be sufficient to appreciate a play about the complexities of

If asked to picture a musical set in Dublin, you might be forgiven if that evoked an imagined mishmash of Riverdance, pints of the black

Mrs Doubtfire, the new comedy musical, is the latest in a long line of all-singing, all-dancing versions of classic retro ’80s / ’90s movies filling

English National Ballet School (ENBS), founded in 1988 by the then ENB artistic director (1984–1990) Peter Schaufuss, with only twelve students as a feeder for

The Manchester International Festival (MIF) is an arts festival with a capital ‘A’. There is a tendency to favour works which are extreme or obscure.

The première of Nabucco at La Scala in Milan in 1842 was a major turning point in the 28-year-old Giuseppe Verdi’s artistic career. The ensembles

Peter James is one of the world’s most successful thriller writers. His fictional character Roy Grace, the lead character of his police procedural novels which

The Yard Theatre finishes its fourteen-year existence in its existing building with a stylistically adventurous production of Tennessee Williams’s memory play The Glass Menagerie. Tom (Tom