First performed by its author, Ntozake Shange, and four female friends in a Californian bar in 1974, this piece moved on to more mainstream theatreland and played over 740 performances on Broadway.

To plug into Chat Pile’s new album is to latch onto a wormhole that reaches back to the mid-1980s to sample a scene that was ...

"Iconic" must be the most used and abused word in the reviewer’s lexicon - a single in the Top Ten and a slot down the bill ...

Andy Sheppard, like other artists who record frequently for ECM, has built a substantial oeuvre in the label’s mighty ...

It’s hardly surprising that director Grant Gee, one of the most outstanding documentarians around – with acclaimed films ...

If you’ve read previous theartsdesk roundups from We Out Here festival, you’ll know that this is one time of year when your ...

If you watch the Donmar’s A Month in the Country, as I did, through the prism of Frederick Ashton’s sparer 1976 one-act ...

Bomb disposal clearly isn’t a job for the faint-hearted, but Vicky McLure’s Lana Washington, who heads the specialist ...

In 2023, the reality competition show Dream Academy documented the formation of the girl group Katseye and the intensive ...

After the mighty artillery of the Berliner Philharmoniker, here was a German-themed and German-delivered Prom full of subtle, ...

Theatrical trickster extraordinaire, purveyor of bewilderingly lavish stage illusions to unsuspecting and often jaw-dropped ...

Kicking of the final leg of Icelandic rock giants Sigur Rós’s world tour, the Edinburgh Playhouse had been sold out months in ...