The Critics

The welcome sound of silence

For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume

The gossip must go on

Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole

Artemisia exhibition banner

A unique art exhibition awaits an audience

Lifetimes of self-isolation

Composing in seclusion

Lockdown Cinema

Staying frosty in plague times

We have been here before

A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile

Online drama can be a hit

Some of the shortcomings of the theatre turn to benefits in digital translation

The only thing to do is dance

When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show

Wildest dreamland

It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom

Welcome to the unfrozen North

How Canada reinvented its musical prowess