My earliest encounter with the music of Bernard Herrmann was in the early 1970s, as a teenager growing up in Belfast who was interested in contemporary music and always on the lookout for the scores of new pieces I could afford to buy. I discovered by sheer chance the music...
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The weekend we have been building towards is nearly upon us and signs of the coming of OverWorlds & UnderWorlds are springing up around our city, in particular a giant tree with a ship wrecked boat emerging up from Briggate.
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Katie Mitchell’s immersive video installation Five Truths is at the Howard Assembly Room until Saturday 25 February. Here’s a round up of responses to the installation online so far.
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Shakespeare's plays lend themselves to multiple interpretations; this is one of the reasons audiences will see them, and read them, again and again. These often aren't subtle changes, they can be radical and political, and tell us as much about the interpr...
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The western established a new idea of modernity, setting a technologically advanced society against the blank slate of a nation in its infancy. The Hollywood dream machine manufactured heroic tales of its founding fathers only a few generations into the past, but always roo...
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