Performing Arts

30 years in the making: a world-first for Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
Actor Samuel West took a gamble in 2006, taping himself performing half of one of Beckett's most famous works. In…

Theatre review: Handbagged, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Moira Buffini’s insightful comedy peeks inside those confidential weekly audiences between the Queen and the PM.

Dance review: Vollmond, Sadler’s Wells
Fasten your seatbelts for a stormy night with Pina Bausch.

Musical review: Bat out of Hell, The Alexandra, Birmingham
Chaos, camp and confetti... 'Bat Out of Hell' is as loud as it is unhinged.

Theatre review: The Years, Harold Pinter Theatre
A brave and intelligent play brought to life by an astonishingly good ensemble.

Opera review: The Marriage of Figaro, London Coliseum
The English National Opera sets Mozart’s classic opera buffa in a stark white box.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ambassadors Theatre
F Scott Fitzgerald’s fantastic fable is indeed ‘an unordinary musical’.

Music review: Mitsuko Uchida & Mahler Chamber Orchestra: Mozart, Royal Festival Hall
Mozart shines under the gentle touch of Dame Mitsuko Uchida.

Small is beautiful, but can small-scale programming survive within growth markets?
As blockbuster shows fill up arts calendars everywhere, the value of smaller scale arts projects is being neglected to the…

Mogwai’s new album ‘The Bad Fire’ transforms trauma into art
Stuart Braithwaite, co-founder of post-rock titans Mogwai, reflects on the personal pain that helped shape the Scottish band’s 11th studio…