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An exciting performance of West Side Story

An exciting performance of West Side Story

Eileen Caiger Gray reviews West Side Story at Sheffield Lyceum theatre For more than half a century, since 1957, following a battle to stage a musical that features such raw and gritty realism, West S ...
Music can work wonders for older people

Music can work wonders for older people

Should GPs prescribe a course of choral or group singing for older people who are feeling isolated, out of sorts or depressed? And could strumming a ukulele in the company of other music-makers also a ...
A band of brothers in Mistaken For Strangers

A band of brothers in Mistaken For Strangers

Mistaken for Strangers is another documentary about a band that is less about the music than about the front man.  Earlier this year, The Lamb of God: As the Palaces Burn told us a little about that e ...
Walking on Sunshine… woah-ohh!

Walking on Sunshine… woah-ohh!

In Walking on Sunshine, Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini, creators of the Street Dance films, focus more on the singing than on dancing and have a go at adding characters and plot to their previous films. ...