It’s not often you get the green light from Bob Dylan to run riot with his songs. But for composer Simon Hale and playwright Conor...
Sean Paul is a party-starter. Few artists have a back catalogue better primed for the dancefloor than the multimillion-selling Jamaican...
At 21, the singer Jean Carne had uprooted her life in Atlanta, Georgia, to elope to Hollywood with jazz pianist Doug Carn. It was 1969,...
Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar – Shruti Dances Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators....
Early 00s pop TV was fertile ground for hyperactive performances. From the flirty cheek of TMi to the saccharine staging of CD:UK,...
‘Sometimes the truth is messy and illogical,” says Anupama Chandrasekhar. “But theatre can display the truth in ways journalism or other...
When he was 15, John Stephens of Springfield, Ohio, entered an essay competition run by McDonald’s for Black History Month. Asked “How do...
Unlike typical teens, composer Richard Jacques was an early riser. Waking up with the dawn chorus was a necessity — not because his...
Joe Rainey – Niineta The drum is central to powwow music. Singers beat in unison on its skin as their voices overlap with vibrato-laden...
When Tan France released his autobiography in 2019, it wasn’t the accounts of the constant racism he experienced growing up in Doncaster...