“Glee,” the spunky TV musical comedy about high school misfits and the teachers who shepherd them, was a top Emmy nominee Thursday with 19 bids, including for best comedy series and stars Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele. The leading nominee was the gritty, unsparing World War II drama, “The... 

Just the warm-up … Alice Cooper at Sonisphere. Photograph: Tina Korhonen/Retna Although only two years old, Sonisphere has elbowed Donington’s Download aside to become the UK’s premier metal festival. It says something about the scale of the operation that Alice Cooper can be... 

Fish Story. No One Knows About Persian Cats; Fish StoryNetwork Releasing DVD; Third Window DVD Music movies have to be one of the trickiest genres to tackle. Anything current can seem dated almost immediately; actors tend to show themselves up as non-musicians, and true-life rock tales are... 

A modern Australian classic … Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson at the Cock Tavern theatre in London How many great Australian plays can you name? And no, the stage version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert doesn’t count. If it’s not many, that is hardly surprising, because it’s...