Dressed in a white Forties dress, sporting a blonde bobbed wig and in the middle of a seven-hour set playing Cole Porter and George Gershwin on a white baby grand piano, Sarah Balfour looked around Piccadilly's In and Out Club and thought: "I could do this"... more
Cape Town Opera, about to make its London debut, has found new resonance in Gershwin's great love story by setting it in the townships where many of its company live.... more
The first big event in London’s music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold’s 1920 work that finally brought opera into the real world... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
An Evening Standard investigation into the state of West End theatre shows musicals in danger of finishing off straight plays. But what are the figures?... more
Trevor Nunn has triumphantly rescued George Gershwin's famous black folk opera Porgy And Bess, reconceiving it as a musical for the people, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
In this week's album releases Yo La Tengo tread an eclectic path, The Fratelli's Costello Music relies on ol'-fashioned geezer charm and The Rogers Sisters play it cool.... more
Howard Alden - the man movie buffs know as the fingers of Emmett Ray in Sweet And Lowdown - was on masterful form at Ronnie Scott's last night.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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