Mandy, Indiana are a Mancunian four-piece with a French singer who's based in Berlin. They make a lot of noise.

"How can we sleep for grief?", asks the brilliant and agitated Thomasina Coverly (the dazzling Isis Hainsworth) during the first act of Arcadia, a question that will come to haunt this magisterial ...

Another interesting thing about the endless flux of the streaming era is that, for all that it’s supposed to homogenise and ...

There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring ...

From his sickbed, after a nervous breakdown during basic training for the army, the 18-year-old Noel Coward started churning ...

Nothing about this album suggests that it’s a debut. Shaking Hand’s eponymous introductory shot is so assured it sounds as if an awful lot of groundwork has preceded its appearance. As it happens – ...

New writing takes many forms: this is one of the glories of contemporary British performance. One of these is the shared narrative, a style pioneered decades ago by Irish playwrights such as Brian ...

Last time we heard from Blackburn heavy rockers Sky Valley Mistress, they were a four-piece who'd recorded their 2020 debut ...

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 premiere, so it’s certainly time for a fresh look at it. And ...

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

Irish trio of accordion, voice, fiddle and piano. The voice belongs to Méabh Begley, from Kerry’s prominent musical family – ...

On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...