Planet - The Welsh Internationalist

The Cathedral of Alerces

Tony Corden tells a tale of tall trees and long memories in the shadow of Victor Jara in a National Park in southern Chile.

Vultures of Unthink

Nigel Jenkins

Daniel G. Williams celeberates the life of Nigel Jenkins

A Few Thoughts on an R.S. Thomas Year

R.S. Thomas by Gwent Jones

Tony Brown looks back on the centenary year of R.S. Thomas

More Stuarts, Please

Seiriol Tomos

Hywel Dix on Welsh National Opera's new Tudor-themed productions of Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena

The Welsh Pinter

Seiriol Tomos

A review of Saer Doliau (Doll Mender) at Finborough Theatre, London

story

The way I see it, microfictions are very short stories which (like any good writing) have a beginning, a middle, and an end...

Reviving Angels

Jeptha

A Review of Welsh National Opera's Jeptha

Muddy Waters, or Keeping Politics Out of Music

A Janus Faced Tragedy

The Persians

Carl Lavery on Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes' return to the Welsh heartlands with their brilliantly conceived performance of The Persians

"If the Trumpet shall sound an Uncertain Note...": the record producers' craft and the Musical Professoriat

There's Nothing New Under the Sun

New Narratives

Niall Griffiths ventures down to the New Narratives festival in Newport, Pembrokeshire

Wales and the Great Composers — Just Good Friends?

The Year of the Great Composers

Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008)

A Memoir by Nigel Jenkins

How many music festivals make a summer? Even before the first notes of the Welsh Proms, the sounds of annual musical junketings were rustling all around our fair land...

Romantics, Revolutionaries and Camp-Followers: The Welsh Proms

Ancestral Voices Prophesying War, Mendelssohn's Elijah

The Welsh Beckett

Gwen Elis on the plays and passing of Wil Sam Jones

In Wrecsam we take what culture we can get. Billy Bragg’s appearance at Glyndwr University was a very welcome change and the place was full.