Sarah Wilkinson
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We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts…
For me, New Zealand has always felt like both a centre and an edge. It is a place people travel to, rather than through. That sense of…
There’s something slightly odd about listening to Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók’s great opera of darkness, on a sunlit spring afternoon.…
Along with Harry Styles, Zayn is one of the stars to emerge from the immensely successful boy-band One Direction. Now no longer a mere "boy…
Evil Grave were from Malta. They were a going concern between December 1971 and around May 1977. Despite their longevity, they released no…
Returning to the West End to celebrate two decades since those strange muppetty posters went up on London buses, I’m still laughing along…
Gerald Barry's Salome, NSO Ireland, Kuhn, National Concert Hall, Dublin review - funny-queasy genius
You know to expect a crazy ride, especially when Gerald Barry, greatest living Wildean and wild one among composers, has flagged up his…
The Southbank Centre’s second Multitudes festival – which commissions artists ranging from filmmakers to acrobats to shine new light onto…
Just now, everything WNO does inevitably bears the mark of their Arts Council-imposed financial troubles, and this new Flying Dutchman…
Carsie Blanton & the Burning Hell, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review - a fine revolutionary singalong
In these times of genocide, illegal invasions and a class war which the ultra-rich are emphatically winning, we clearly need a woman to…