The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in LondonThe soprano Golda Schultz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983. She studied journalism before switching to singing at the University of Cape Town and then Juilliard in New York. In 2011 she joined the Bavarian...

The comedy producer, 51, reflects on early ambitions to be a stockbroker, dodging racism by being a wheelchair user, and being noisy enough to get invited to the partyI was born in Cairo and moved to Northern Ireland when I was two for my parents’ work – they’re both doctors. I’d open my mouth and this really manic Northern Irish accent would come out,...

Barbican Hall, London EC1 Folk, classical and jazz textures from a quietly stellar band back the singer’s elegant, swooping voice on an almighty debut tourEyes shut, feet bare, with the stage in virtual darkness, singer Beth Gibbons clings to her microphone stand as though to a sapling in a gale, a veil of blond hair periodically falling across her...

Chilling performances in Breaking Bad, Civil War and now Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness have made the actor cinema’s go-to wrong ‘un – but the roles he plays can be hard to shake offJesse Plemons is a successful young actor, instinctive and natural, who likes to inhabit every role he takes on. He can play lead or support; light comedy or dark drama;...

Blondie meets J Dilla in the alt-rock of this idiosyncratic Londoner who made her name covering the likes of Grimes and PJ HarveyA good idea or song can circle the world in a second these days, and Aziya has plenty of both. The 24-year-old Londoner gathered a lockdown following via guitar-heavy TikTok covers of PJ Harvey, Santigold and Grimes. Now she...

The Costa-winning author describes her creative career, from embracing the arts scene in London to finding her voice as a writer in BarbadosIt was the end of the 1990s, and I was in my 20s working as a legal academic at King’s College London, but I wasn’t in love with the law. I needed a change. During a sabbatical, I saw a newspaper advert for a foundation...