fri 19/09/2025

alexandra coghlan

alexandra.coghlan's picture
Bio
Alexandra is the classical music critic of the New Statesman, and has written on arts for The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Prospect, Gramophone, Opera Now, The Oxford Times and The Monthly. She was formerly Performing Arts Editor at Time Out, Sydney. She writes about classical music, theatre and film for theartsdesk.

Articles By Alexandra Coghlan

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Album: Biffy Clyro - Futique

For the trio of Biffy Clyro, the years since their previous album, 2021’s The Myth Of The Happily...

Album: NewDad - Altar

With their second album Altar, the Irish combo NewDad has moved from...

Romans: A Novel, Almeida Theatre review - a uniquely extraor...

OMG! I mean OMG doubled!! This is amazing! Or is it? Can Alice Birch’s Romans: A Novel at the...

Robert Redford (1936-2025)

Somehow both rugged and smooth, embodying American values yet often turning up his collar against them, Robert Redford – who died on 16 September...

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Round Chapel review - enchantment in East...

Hackney’s Round Chapel is an appropriate venue. Scottish...

First Person: Musician ALA.NI on how thoughts of empire and...

I’ve never thought of myself as a political artist. I write...

Robert Redford: remembering All the President’s Men

In the summer of 2005, Robert Redford, who died this week, attended the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, to collect a life...

The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Appl, Levickis, Wigmore Hall review - fun to the fore in cab...

Concerts at the Wigmore Hall offer many types of pleasure, but not...