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Byline: Andrew Clements Star Rating: 3 stars 'A home for the promiscuous music lover' is how the London contemporary music festival (LCMF) describes itself, but in fact it is a [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 4 stars A Black couple have moved into a gated suburban enclave and the white folk around them are worried. Who are they, and could [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars This musical begins as a sunny coming-of-age story, with a teenager and aspiring novelist excitedly driving off to 'writing camp'. That journey quickly [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Winship Star Rating: 3 stars It was inevitable really, that the strongest piece of this triple bill from National Ballet of Canada would come from Crystal Pite. One [...]

Byline: Tim Ashley Star Rating: 5 stars Annilese Miskimmon's English National Opera production of Suor Angelica relocates Puccini's one-act tragedy of faith and familial cruelty from a 17th-century Florentine convent [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars Band reunions seem to be in the air, or one band 's, at least. Here is another, which may not have defined an [...]

Byline: David Jays Star Rating: 3 stars The title? It's a sandwich filling. In Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's first full-length play, boy woos girl with his signature sarnie: a blend of sweet [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks In the ecology of country house opera -- privately funded, seen by dedicated but relatively small audiences -- much remains hidden, or unseen. The optional dressing up [...]

Byline: Kitty Empire Star Rating: 4 stars It all starts with the mercurial Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré doing a little black-slope run down some scales, to whoops of anticipation [...]

Byline: Laura Cumming Star Rating: 3 stars Mary Delany (1700-88) was a witty memoirist of 72 when she in effect invented the paper collage in Britain. Noticing the affinity between [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks 'Agency' is a current buzzword in opera, well-worn but still valid and usually preceded by 'female'. Women, abused, controlled, dying, were long assumed to have no free [...]

Byline: Simon Parkin Star Rating: 4 stars Video game conventions are typically boisterous affairs, as thousands of visitors queue under a constellation of screens for the chance to play one [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars As a drama about the literary canon's most famous sisters, Underdog explores the prickly edges of competitive sisterhood, first with a passing jibe [...]

Byline: Sarah Crompton Pina Bausch's Nelken (Carnations) opens with a breathtaking image, as dancers in evening dress wade through a field of 8,000 pink carnations, standing tall and lovely. They [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks The exclamation mark in the title warns you. No collective strikes, rebellions, revolutions, except outside and over there -- or when a chorus is needed. Instead, the [...]

Byline: Anya Ryan Star Rating: 3 stars 'Welcome to my first tour of the day,' says Samuel to the audience. We're in the courtyard of a former slave castle in [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars Who are the ghosts who haunt two orphaned children and their governess in a country house? Our response to Benjamin Britten's The Turn [...]

Byline: Kate Wyver Star Rating: 3 stars In the cold air outside a sticky nightclub in Bradford, 17-year-olds Stacey and Jen are at a crossroads. In one direction lies the [...]

Byline: Tim Ashley Star Rating: 3 stars Commissioned and written as a double bill, Tchaikovsky 's Iolanta and The Nutcracker, his final opera and ballet, were premiered together in St [...]

Byline: Erica Jeal Star Rating: 4 stars Two years in, the partnership between the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Vasily Petrenko continues to be transformational for the RPO. [...]

Byline: Andrew Clements Star Rating: 3 stars For 25 years, the violinist Viktoria Mullova and her cellist husband Matthew Barley have nurtured a dream to perform Schoenberg's string sextet Verklärte [...]

Byline: Sarah Crompton Dance in the open air is something you come across on holiday abroad. British weather has traditionally put a dampener on it. It doesn't seem so much [...]

Byline: Kit Buchan Star Rating: 4 stars Theatreland's newest venue, @sohoplace, finding its feet after only four shows to date, is put blissfully through its paces in this spanking new [...]

Byline: Erica Jeal Star Rating: 5 stars It is nearly a decade since the Aurora Orchestra and its conductor, Nicholas Collon, started performing works from memory -- a calling-card that [...]

Byline: Damien Morris Star Rating: 5 stars Never cheat on a songwriter. Especially not Lana Del Rey. We learn this at Hyde Park, under a sun-dappled sky streaked with clouds [...]

Byline: Laura Cumming Star Rating: 4 stars Carrie Mae Weems was the first African American artist to have a solo show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The veteran [...]

Byline: Tim Ashley Star Rating: 4 stars Bushra El-Turk 's multimedia opera Woman at Point Zero is an angry yet restrained distillation of the 1975 novel of the same name [...]

Byline: Andrew Clements Star Rating: 3 stars Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first conquered the world's highest peak 70 years ago, there has been no shortage of mountaineers, amateur [...]

Byline: Emma Garland Star Rating: 5 stars 'This is going to get more dramatic than I anticipated,' Chris proclaims after his drummer showers him with roses midway through the show. [...]

Byline: Kate Kellaway Star Rating: 4 stars Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects of Love was first performed in 1989 and is based on a second-rate novel by David Garnett, published [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars Time was when Simon Rattle, a Liverpool lad good at playing drums, thought his destiny was to be a conductor. His main challenge, [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars As if immobilised by an alien force, the audience scarcely stirred for the 105-minute duration of Innocence by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho [...]

Byline: Brian Logan Star Rating: 3 stars All standups operating in the space between medicine and comedy now do so in the shadow of Adam Kay's all-conquering This Is Going [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Winship Star Rating: 4 stars In 1891, a group of singers named the African Choir sailed from Cape Town to Britain to begin a two-year-long tour, aiming to [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars The cheers in Manchester on Tuesday night were not only for the football (City's 7-0 win against Leipzig). Another contest took place the [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars 'I want to kill myself,' says a woman living in a future in which humans are implanted with immorality chips. So begins Daniel [...]

Byline: Laura Cumming You enter, stage right, through an unfamiliar door straight into a storeroom. Corridors of shelves bear nameless bubble-wrapped objects, old doors of all sorts are propped against [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 5 stars It takes some time for Travis Alabanza's show about the underground drag scene to set alight. But once it does, somewhere in the [...]

Byline: Adrian Searle Star Rating: 3 stars Roman statuary and Renaissance door-knockers, maps of the world and mortified saints; Easter parade penitents and bloodied, polychrome Christs, souls in torment and [...]

Byline: Brian Logan Star Rating: 4 stars Your ears will ring, your heart will sing. Not for the Lyric the genial unfolding of a well-loved folk tale with added knockabout [...]

Byline: Stephen Pritchard Ruthless politicians using a foreign threat to hide a local evil; brutish men dismissing all women as whores; soldiers meting out violence on the innocent. The themes [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Winship Star Rating: 3 stars Lewis Carroll's Alice has inspired plenty of stage spin-offs, but despite the ubiquity, Wonderland provides weak source material. Sure, there is a succession [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 2 stars Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order: to turn the topics of parental depression and death into a comedy drama. It does not [...]

Byline: Kate Wyver Star Rating: 4 stars As in: Evita was also there. The second wife of the Argentinian president Juan Perón, Eva, was immortalised in Andrew Lloyd Webber and [...]

Byline: Brian Logan Star Rating: 4 stars Emmy Award-nominated for playing a standup comedian, how good is Hannah Einbinder at being a standup comedian? If the success of HBO series [...]

Byline: Tim Ashley Star Rating: 4 stars The history of Offenbach 's La Princesse de Trébizonde is essentially a tale of bad timing. It was first performed in Baden Baden [...]

Byline: David Jays Star Rating: 3 stars Each man kills the thing he loves, though rarely on the battlefield. Shobana Jeyasingh's richly layered new dance work draws on a 16th-century [...]

Byline: Susannah Clapp Suddenly, theatre is firing on its newest cylinders. Immersive ingenuity, political fantasy, choreography that stretches the vocabulary of the stage. Coventry, currently the UK city of culture, [...]

Byline: Stevie Chick Star Rating: 5 stars 'I feel like Adele,' grins Eddie Vedder, giddily drinking in the vast crowd before him. He might often have worn his stardom with [...]

Byline: Fiona Maddocks Star Rating: 4 stars As a young man, Antonín DvoÅák (1841-1904) was playing viola in the Prague opera pit when Richard Wagner came to conduct his own [...]