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Photographer Finetime and I have our first pints outside Dalton’s, a bar on Brighton seafront, at almost exactly midday. They ...
Every now and then a concert programme comes along that fits like a bespoke suit, and this one could have been specially ...
Nick Mohammed invented his Mr Swallow character – camp, lisping, with an inflated ego and the mistaken belief that he has ...
Ballet is hardly a stranger to Broadway. Until the late 1950s every other musical had its fantasy ballet sequence – think Cyd ...
It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to Beckett, or ...
The appalling destruction of Pan Am’s flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 was put under the spotlight in January this year in ...
Tell me what you see” invites Robert Forster during “Tell it Back to me.” The album’s eight songs do not, however, necessarily say what Forster actually sees. These vignettes about encounters between ...
There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and ...
Songlines Encounters is your round-the-world ticket to great world music and performances, a chance to travel widely in music ...
The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago established ...
The pieces here have a theme of confectionary, but this is not refined Swiss-chocolate music, this is the indecent sweetness ...
It was a daring idea to mark Ravel’s 150th birthday year with a single concert packing in all his works for solo piano.