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

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

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 Blackheath Halls had i...

Robert Vincent has been called the Scouse Springsteen but in fact he’s vastly more than that. Although his Americana-drenched compositions bow to the Boss, t...

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

Producers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that costs no more than perf...

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 pietàs and requiems. ...

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 fought and died in th...

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

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

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 moving between those ...

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

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 Group concert at Bl...

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

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

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

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 low tide while watch...

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

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 this was no ordinary ho...

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 seen on a stage in a...