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Strictly speaking 12 Angry Men isn’t a courtroom drama at all since the action takes place in a jury room following a murder trial. But like the best plays in which a court setting is used to explore not just an individual crime but the greater ills...

The Fairmont Southampton was rammed last weekend with an audience hungry to hear The Company Men’s unique brand of reimagined pop and classic medleys. This slick, four-man vocal group has shared stages with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan and Sheena Easton...

The festival jazz concert on Friday night at the Fairmont Southampton’s Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre proved a provocative listening experience for many lovers of Latin jazz. The brilliance of Arturo O’Farrill’s instrumentalists was never in doubt as from ...

Tenors Un Limited Friday, February 3 at the Fairmont Southampton In the middle of the first act of Friday evening’s concert, the fire alarm unexpectedly went off in the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre. With buzzing sounds and flashing lights going, it is c...

There is no darkness but ignorance, Feste sings. But the real music is in watching the truth come to light in Shakespeare’s classic comedy of errors, Twelfth Night. Originally produced for an outdoor performance in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the play’s relo...

Praised for its uniqueness, it’s then unsurprising that an evening of shadow dancing was a first for me. Created in 2008, Catapult is Adam Battelstein’s take on ancient Chinese shadow theatre, using bodies instead of puppets. With no point of refer...

Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts: Vocalosity Friday, January 13 at Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts The ten-strong energy-packed, virtuosic ensemble of young a cappella musicians who make up Vocalosity drew quite a crowd for ...

Mike Jones I think we can all do with some Christmas joy in these uncertain times. Marjorie Pettit and her team of musicians and singers certainly gave us an abundance of it on Friday night with a thoughtfully chosen, subtly linked and beautifully e...

The indelible popular image of Noël Coward as a showman, bon vivant and epigram-dropping wit too often overshadows his remarkable skills as a dramatist. The one-time Bermuda resident was one of the most enduring and successful playwrights of his era...

In his introductory speech BMDS president Than Butterfield asked where else in the world would you get to see six world premieres in one evening? Indeed. For this is the 14th playwriting contest held by the society which has raised more than $300,000...

Fifty years ago, on November 23, 1966, RMS Queen of Bermuda slipped through Two Rock Passage for the final time, closing a gilded era of luxury sailing between New York and Bermuda. The commemorative show at Masterworks, Hail to the Queen, celebrates...

The watercolour show at Windjammer 3 Gallery is a predominantly figurative take on the island’s landscape and architectural detail. A good watercolour is greater than the sum of its parts. Christopher Marson exemplifies the principle in several pain...