Empty theatres due to pestilence – routine in Shakespeare’s time – created financial black holes sucking the lifeblood from companies, venues and individuals. Our governments, meanwhile were bewilderingly slow to understand that COVID was at least catastrophic for the arts as for the travel and hospitality industries. Streaming, embraced by…
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The epiphany came in his late teens. He was supposed to be studying McNeill’s History of Western Civilisation, but when he opened the cover, rather than any words, her saw a vision of Miles Davis. He checked the New York gig guide. Miles and his quintet were playing at Birdland…
The Wharf Revue, the satirical institution that for two decades has been the prelude to mistletoe and Mr Claus, has not so much been hibernating during the pandemic, as incubating. Now Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott have clambered back to their feet, peered behind them, and discovered that…