Music and Performance

So much music: the singer-songwriter Liam Hayes. Photograph: Jim Newberry

By Yo Zushi - 19 April 11:28

The musician talks to Yo Zushi about writing songs for Roman Coppola and the cost of remaining "autonomous".

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Illustration: Nick Hayes for the New Statesman

By Stewart Lee - 16 April 12:53

Yes, Jimmy Carr avoided tax and the BNP loves Al Murray’s Pub Landlord, but it’s hard to find a comedian who votes Tory.

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Justin Bieber performing recently at the O2 in London. Photograph: Getty Images

Justin Bieber is a glorified Furby. Why do we expect him to have views on the Holocaust?

By Eleanor Margolis - 16 April 9:32

We need much more of a Henry VIII-style attitude to celebrities – less adulation, and more “amuse me minstrels and if you’re very, very good I might not have you executed”.

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Colin Davis during a performance in 1965. Photograph: Getty Images

Sir Colin Davis: a conductor without compare

By Caroline Crampton - 15 April 15:35

The London Symphony Orchestra's longest-serving conductor has died at the age of 85.

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A cross-cultural masterpiece

By Sarah Howell - 12 April 15:50

Reviewed: Sutra.

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Judi Dench as Alice and Ben Whishaw as Peter. Photograph: Johan Persson

Reviewed: Peter and Alice at the Noel Coward Theatre

By Caroline Crampton - 09 April 8:46

Child’s play.

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Wagner aimed to overthrow 19th-century silliness

The ultimate seduction: revisiting the case of Wagner

By Ed Smith - 09 April 8:26

Wagner aimed to overthrow 19th-century silliness and replace it with a new "music drama".

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David Bowie performs his final concert as Ziggy Stardust

Starman returns: The perfect re-emergence of David Bowie

By Dylan Jones - 09 April 8:11

Reviewed: "David Bowie Is…” at the V&A.

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Reviewed: The Book of Mormon

By Andrew Billen - 09 April 5:36

Not so salty.

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Bach on the farm

By Alexandra Coghlan - 09 April 5:26

Alexandra Coghlan talks to John Eliot Gardiner.

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Reviewed: What About Now by Bon Jovi

By Kate Mossman - 27 March 16:31

Hair apparent.

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Helen Mirren as the Queen in "The Audience".

Reviewed: The Audience; Trelawny of the Wells

By Andrew Billen - 21 March 11:32

A cartoon of cameos.

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Cabaret artist Meow Meow in the Threepenny Opera.

Reviewed: Threepenny Opera

By Alexandra Coghlan - 21 March 9:41

Mack the nice.

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Immersive theatre and the anxiety of choice

By Tara Isabella Burton - 16 March 11:12

Yes, you might discover a secret orgy in a hidden room or go on a desperate quest for a missing ring, but at heart, immersive theatre is about turning the traditional power dynamics of actors and audience on their head.

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Sony's Walkman first freed Londoners to travel in a private sound world. Photogr

Tunnel visions: Krautrock on the Underground

By Paul Morley - 14 March 12:54

Paul Morley recalls 1979, and travelling on the London Underground with his first ever Walkman, listening to the other-worldly sound of Can.

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President Saakashvili, upon whom “The President Has Come to See You” is based.

Playfulness and pragmatism collide as Georgian theatre comes to London

By Tara Isabella Burton - 13 March 15:40

As a biting satire of President Saakashvili makes its English language debut, Tara Isabella Burton explores the state of a fascinating theatrical tradition.

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Should feminists lay off Rihanna?

By Sarah Ditum - 11 March 11:20

The pop star gets criticised for her hypersexual persona - and for returning to the man who abused her. But before you attack her choices, work out what you'd do if someone you actually knew was making the same mistakes.

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