On her 14th album, the US singer-songwriter enters new territory. “Pulse” is nothing like anything she has done before, and the Mitchell-esque leanings towards jazz are more evident than when they ...

It's an uncanny coincidence that two operas about pain relief which goes wrong should premiere at Irish and Scottish festivals at the same time. Today also sees Simon Thompson's review of Missy ...

Marsalis’ work is in 12 movements to mirror the structure of 12-bar blues, and traces themes like the circle of life and the triumph of freedom. Squeezed onto the stage of Edinburgh’s Usher Hall for ...

Czech animator Jiří Trnka’s rise to international fame mirrored that of his contemporary Karel Zeman, both filmmakers producing work as sophisticated as anything from the Disney studios but utterly ...

What would ol’ Shakey think of such liberties? Two plays that may or may not be a single narrative, which may or may not have a missing middle section, stitched together with a bit of text added here ...

Olga Koch comes bounding on to the stage and tells us she needs a time machine to tell her story, to prevent someone being ...

The cast of Game of Thrones: The Mad King - Is that a lance in your hand or... I cannot have been alone in sitting in a reconfigured Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the audience around, within and above ...

On paper, this Prom looked like a well-stocked display-case for collective choral virtues. Baroque wizard Peter Whelan (pictured below) led the Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a ...

Which means the inner character of Monk’s jagged, arresting music, with all its tensions and tales of the unexpected, is turned right down in favour of a soft, glistening solo set that barely ripples ...

Haunted by school traumas, Esme is struggling to put paintbrush to canvas to complete her MA at the Glasgow School of Art. Harris, on the other hand, treated school as a joke, but has nonetheless ...