Simple change almost never is. English institutions and maybe the English character are constructed of crooked timber and sometimes defy reason... more
Miranda Hart, Hugh Bonneville, Al Murray, Stephen Mangan and more than 50 other comedians and actors united to break the Guinness World Record for the largest kazoo ensemble... more
He has signed up Juan Diego Flórez and squared up to Erwin Schrott — now, as his recital series reaches its tenth anniversary, City lawyer Ian Rosenblatt tells Petroc Trelawny why funding the arts remains pleasure, not business
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The annual Meltdown festival is set to be a family affair as generations of folk-rock stars led by Loudon Wainwright III and his children Martha and Rufus take to the Southbank stages.... more
The Mikado is The tiny Union's fourth musical - and second all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan - in a year and it keeps getting better.... more
Mike Leigh's latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a surprisingly sunny story of a chirpy London school teacher. It is, he says, his tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
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Hairspray eminently deserves its four Olivier awards, particularly for the way it has brought the Shaftesbury Theatre back to life, says Nick Curtis.... more
Unfailingly polite, moving with the curious, gawky grace of a prep school pupil auditioning for Gilbert and Sullivan, John Aizlewood was fascinated by The Rakes singer Alan Donohoe.... more
W.S. Gilbert would have exploded at the use of surtitles with The Gondoliers but without them the audience watching this ENO production would have been a bit lost.... more
Badly Drawn Boy's hour-long set of hypnotic, lo-fi indie rock threatened to send the crowd into a deep sleep but that, says Martha de Lacey, is part of his charm.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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