Cape Town Opera’s production of Show Boat is a powerful commentary on race and rights — and you will feel its meaning anywhere in the world, writes Jo Kerrigan

Michael Jackson has earned $90m (€61m) since he died.

Irish actor Jim Norton has won a Tony Award in the United States for his performance in Conor McPherson's 'The Seafarer'.

Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittering MGM musicals such as Showboat, Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get Your Gun and later revived his career on TV soap Dallas, has died of colon cancer.