aleks sierz
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Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.
Articles By Aleks Sierz
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Music Reissues Weekly: The Twilights - Twilights Time The Co...
On 26 September 1966, The Twilights set-off from Australia to Britain. The journey, on the liner the Castel Felice, took six weeks. A day after...
Sun Rings, Sacconi Quartet, Festival Voices, Kings Place rev...
What better way to start a season...
Album: Larkin Poe - Bloom
The Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan can be heard supporting Ringo Starr on his new album of country songs, while at the same time their seventh...
A Complete Unknown review - how does it feel?
Being unknowable has been almost as much of a preoccupation for the erstwhile Robert Zimmerman as writing songs. Previously on film he has played...
Love Life, Opera North review - Lerner and Weill's blas...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. But in Love Life, Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s...
Vermiglio review - a simple tale, simply but beautifully tol...
Another new release opens with the sounds of people in bed playing over the credits, but these are not Babygirl’s sighs of a...
Album: Kele - The Singing Winds Pt. 3
Of the big UK indie bands of the 00s wave, Bloc Party were always the most austerely art-rockish. Where Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Franz Ferdinand...
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Dudamel, Barbican review -...
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela took the Barbican by storm last night with a thrilling account of Mahler’s...
Jenůfa, Royal Opera review - electrifying details undermined...
This was always going to be Jakub Hrůša’s night, his first at the...