When it comes to a dance roundup, you surely won’t be able to come up with a Top Ten, will you? Even a Top Five might be a ...

For a beautiful treatment of Matsuo Bashō's celebrated haiku “A frog jumps in”, the dreamlike stream-of-consciousness of “I ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

It wasn't exactly a stellar year for comedy but there were plenty of shows that shone brightly and have stayed with me, even ...

A foreign-language release steeped in Catholicism isn’t exactly what you’d expect to top virtually every end-of-year album ...

Turner and Constable, Rivals and Originals, Tate Britain, November 2025Whoever thought of creating an exhibition comparing ...

The stylish gentlemen pictured above are Crimson Earth, a band active from 1970 to 1976. Regardless of their longevity, the ...

It’s 1952 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, seven years after the Enola Gay dropped a bomb on the Japanese empire, but one ...

If it's possible for snippets from live theatre to play in the mind on a perpetual loop, the London theatre during 2025 ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

Working with West Bank Palestinian musicians during the Gaza War had clearly changed DePlume in gigs in Brighton and Norway’s Moldejazz festival, and A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole. He sometimes ...

It was a year for outstanding individual performances, especially from relative newcomers, and at least three flawless ...