Chris Brooke

Articles By Chris Brooke

Friday, 05 May 2023 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...

They say cinema is dying (you never know, they may be wrong), but you can’t help noticing the stampede of movie stars towards TV and streaming....

A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh...

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Beth Gibbons’s latest album touched me more deeply than most of...

The most hyped special of the season came to a...

Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian let’s-make-an-opera, while...

In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had Happened Was......