The ultimate anguish: John Relyea as Gurnemanz, Audun Iversen as Amfortas, Daniel Johansson as Parsifal and Kristina Starek as Kundry Besides, Mijnssen doesn't really allow Relyea much dramatic agency ...

“Houdini of Rock 'n' Roll” is one of ten tracks The Hollywood Stars recorded in 1976 for what’s posthumously dubbed Sound City, a shelved album released for the first time. It was recorded at Van Nuys ...

His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...

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 ...

No guarantees with conceits like this, but Tom Littler has plenty of form with this sort of caper at Orange Tree Theatre (co-producers with Guildford Shakespeare Company) so, taking one’s seat in the ...

The vigorous attack of the LPO strings at the start of the Allegro maestoso made for a dynamic, athletically poised start, before the woodwind introduced the theme with a quiet luminosity that made it ...

The production’s budget shows from the off. The Blisses’ riverside home in Cookham, Berks has become a grand mansion with chandeliers and modish Italianate furniture (set design is by Frankie Bradshaw ...

Of course the verdict was never in doubt. A morality tale in which the middle-aged woman who strays is punished with rape and imprisonment? Well they can put such bile and filth in fancy books for the ...

Let's get her contributions out of the way first and hope for better next time (which will happen; I've heard better before). Middleton had the inspired idea of starting with the Adagio from Bach's D ...

The vibe of Doveland is one that is reminiscent of Junip, José González’s band from the early 2000s, with its atmospheric songs seemingly being conjured from dreams and mysteries. Gentle and melodic, ...

That body art, he explains, represents how Chladni have been observed since ancient times, and can be seen throughout the natural world: tortoiseshells, leopard spots, zebra stripes, and, when sliced ...

A lot, obviously, as Morpurgo plays other characters who populate this tale – the strict principal, the school bully and a cheerleader among them – but chiefly that he loses his diary which contains, ...