REVIEWS

It’s impossible to come out of Trinity Laban musical theatre department’s epic production of the Broadway hit City Of Angels without...

Our modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so...

What could be musically more exciting than a live jazz-funk gig? One featuring James Taylor on Hammond organ, that’s what. His show at...

Robert Vincent has been called the Scouse Springsteen but in fact he’s vastly more than that. Although his Americana-drenched...

One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...

Producers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that...

Artists are drawn to the darker side of the human condition – for every enigmatic Mona Lisa smile or Ode To Joy there are any number of...

There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who...

Superstar composer Steve Reich came to Trinity Laban to be given an honorary fellowship, answer questions from students (above) and watch...

If anyone ever doubts the contemporary relevance of what’s played and displayed at the perennially marvellous London International...

Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast...

There is at least one guitar hero for every kind of popular music - folk legend Richard Thompson, bluesman Buddy Guy or jazz giant Wes...

I’m not given to rating events out of 10 but if I had to I wouldn’t hesitate to award Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter and Contemporary Music...

Contrasts matter. Bad weather helps us appreciate good, sadness joy, chaos calm. And the banter between folk legends John Tams and Barry...

Forty-something years ago, the tagline for the blockbuster Christopher Reeve movie Superman was You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly because the...

A stunning show at Laban theatre by Deaf Men Dancing contained any number of great moments – but the best for me was a simple...

With half-term fast approaching, here’s a must-see for all ages at Creekside Discovery Centre – a chance to splash about in the river at...

Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...

Fifty years ago Nick Harper was a four-year-old boy living with his parents in a one-bedroom flat at 58 Fordwych Road in Kilburn. But...

If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve...

Dance films have to be so much more than just performances captured on film – they have to be cinematic artworks in their own right. And...

Great jazz musicians seem to have an almost telepathic understanding with their bandmates. And when, as in the case of Zoe and Idris...

Traditional folk music, American blues and organ-driven jazz all on the same bill in the lovely surroundings of Mycenae House gardens -...

In a full assault on the senses, rock giants Muse threw everything at their O2 London audience. Not only did they play a storming set of...

The annual Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer Of The Year winners’ exhibition returns to the National Maritime Museum with some of...

There are pictures in Reflections 4 Labour, the gorgeous new exhibition of works by Nick Raynsford at the Greenwich Gallery, which are so...

Anton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even...

The harrowing damage to mental health caused by poverty, lack of opportunity and official indifference is the theme of Alice Malseed’s...

Restoration comedy is about mocking the ruling class and shocking audiences. Both feats are hilariously achieved in Nell Gwynn, Jessica...

Two of the most iconic photos ever are Earthrise, the shot of our blue planet taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited the moon, and the picture...

The spaces where artists work have inspired some of the finest paintings in history - just think of Velasquez’s mysterious Las Meninas or...

Get it wrong and comic opera can be a disaster. But get it right, like this year’s sold-out Blackheath Halls opera La Belle Hélène, and...

Pure sound, like pure colour in a painting, can be transcendent, revealing depths of consciousness undreamt of in daily life. I had that...

The divisions in British society today are as wide and bitter as they have been in decades, which is why events that celebrate...

A brilliant contemporary opera written by a woman with an all-female cast – there could be no better way to round off Trinity Laban’s...

By Reeva Charles On a glorious summer’s evening Changeling Theatre used a stunning outdoor setting in Woolwich for a production of The...

Singer-songwriter Chris Wood is not only a great musician, he’s also one of our greatest ever lyricists. His ear for the sort of minutiae...

One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is...

The three Rs usually refers to reading, riting and rithmatic. But if you’re a Trinity Laban student it can also mean Roots, Riots,...

Sweet Charity has a heck of a musical pedigree – the original director was Bob Fosse, the book was by Neil Simon and the near-perfect...

Close to the Albany stands a house where, in 1981, a fire killed 13 black youngsters and injured many more during a 16th birthday party....

This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...

There are free lunchtime recitals at St Alfege’s pretty much every week of the year and the range of programmes on offer is...

There were some terrifying statistics highlighted at World Oceans Day at the National Maritime Museum. For example, without radical...

If I walked down a busy shopping street and saw a talking wolf on the pavement, a bevy of dancing princesses in red capes or a pack of...

If you ever wanted an example of the diversity dance is capable of providing you’d struggle to find a better one than Transitions’ triple...

Is there a story in the English language that’s better known or more loved than The Wind In The Willows? I doubt it – but that makes it a...

We’re rather spoilt for enjoying rivers in Greenwich because not only do we have the Thames but a stone’s throw away is Deptford Creek...

Pound for pound, folk music has more than its fair share of virtuosi - but can sometimes come across as rather worthy, a strange...

You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...