We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts…

There is nothing to compare with the visceral experience of hearing a massed choir – in this case the 230-strong combined forces of the…

Tim Crouch is one of our great theatrical alchemists. Most famously – in his conceptual show An Oak Tree – he creates a portrait of grief…

Image Stravinsky: Late Works Cappella Amsterdam, Nord Nederlands Orkest/Daniel Reuss (…

Spanning centuries, cultures and an ocean, Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo’s new musical, Ballad Lines (say it fast and it sounds like…

It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its…

Location, location, location... a tangible sense of place and local identity can make or break a TV drama, and Under Salt Marsh …

In the 1990s, the world of electronic music was a frontier where the unimaginable often happened. These were the days of early Aphex…

In 2016, when Richard Jones's production of Musorgsky's original 1869 Boris Godunov first amazed us, Putin had invaded Crimea but not the…

The latest brainwave of director Richard Linklater is wonderfully simple: don’t do another remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film, A bout…