Theatre Correspondent Ruth Spurgeon was at York Theatre Royal to watch Harold Pinter's The Homecoming.

The University of Cumbria’s new inclusive choir, featuring members from campuses in Cumbria and Lancashire, has taken part in a major UK choral festival.

Was it Miss Scarlett, with the revolver in the dining room, or Professor Plum, with the lead pipe in the library, or even Miss White in the billiard room with the rope? All familiar names which began life as a board game, invented during the second world war, but has since morphed into other entertainment mediums, and is still played and enjoyed by millions.

Sonnet 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself…

Best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson is the multi award-winning author of some of the world's best loved children's books, most notably the modern classic The Gruffalo which has sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

In a bright and breezy new play by Mikron newcomer Lindsay Roden, the uber-talented and always hard working cast of just four treat us to a whirlwind history of the weather / climate change and all things meteorological. For those who don't know Mikron (where have you been?), they are a delightfully small and permanently touring force of nature.

For a moment I was blinded by a psychedelic assortment of colours, a smorgasbord of textures, by shapes and sizes of canvasses. It was an experience I’ve not had for over two years. It hit my sight and sensory organs immediately, because like many of us, I have not had the opportunity to visit a museum or art gallery for two years.

With a secular fatalism that later became his artistic blazon, Philip Larkin once said that ‘nothing contravenes the coming dark’, and though he may have had a point respecting the inexorable certainty of death, his life, and poetic judgment, were terminally shadowed by the prospect of it.

Our Eurovision Song Contest 2022 fan and arts correspondent, Jeremy Williams-Chalmers, had a good, albeit nail-biting night in on Saturday.

Kalush Orchestra completed a story like no other by winning the Eurovision Song Contest final in Turin, Italy. Achieving 631 points, the Ukrainian band were crowned champions with their song ‘Stefania’.

When The Divine Comedy released Charmed Life, The Best of the Divine Comedy earlier this year the album was a gentle education to introduce me to the songs of Neil Hannon who to all intents and purposes, is The Divine Comedy. Songs such as National Express and Becoming More Like Alfie were more in the public’s consciousness but others maybe not so.

The lack of control experienced by the somnambulist is frightening and this novel explores the fear and sense of uncertainty it may arouse in sufferers. Physical torture is bad, mental torment is so much worse.

In the third of our series of interviews with authors on the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Fiction 2022 longlist, Group Editor Andrew Palmer catches up with Cumbrian writer MW Craven.

This train has left the city … This train has left the city approximately ten years late. You sway and stare at the glitter thinning out into fields, a Hopper model darkness frames, your hair tied back, your dress still thinking it’s summer. We share a cup’s hand-warmer. Here comes a tunnel, a pause where I cannot hear clearly the song that nests in your head.

What a fabulous show! Written by Rick Elice and directed by Arlene Phillips, The Cher Show tells the story of Cher’s spectacular rise to fame from humble beginnings living in California to the global stardom she now enjoys.

There is no doubt that The Rasmus had no idea that their school band, formed back in 1994, would end up representing their nation at Eurovision near 30 years later.

Hilarious mishaps and DIY disasters are bringing the house down, quite literally, as Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em hits the road with Joe Pasquale (New Faces, I’m a Celebrity, Spamalot, The Producers) as the lovable accident-prone Frank Spencer, written & directed by Guy Unsworth the adaptation of the hit TV show is coming to Blackpool.

23 year old Sheldon Riley is no stranger to public vote competitions. Having first come to prominence on the 2016 series of X Factor Australia, where he competed both as a soloist and as part of a group, he has since appeared on The Voice (Australia) and America's Got Talent.

Strictly Come Dancing star, Craig Revel Horwood, is taking to the road in the Spring with his debut solo tour! Craig talks to us about what we can expect from the show.

Back in 2018 the pressure was mounting for Norway's Sigrid. Having been met with a flurry of hype for her initial singles and EPs, she suddenly found herself named the winner of BBC Music Sound of 2018 and the winner of Newcomer of the Year at the Spellemannprisen.

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Even during the speculation stage of Eurovision 2022, the excitement that Amanda Tenjford might be representing Greece was high. As a result, the pressure was on for her to deliver. And wow. She has done just that! Die Together is powerful and beautiful. While there may have been questions as to how it would sound live, acoustic performances since have only heightened the depth of its beauty.