Heather Neill
Bio
Heather Neill is a critic and theatre writer. She was Arts Editor of The Times Educational Supplement and has contributed features to The Times, Telegraph and theatre programmes. She reviews for The Stage, interviews for theatrevoice.com and has been a judge of the Offies and the Theatre Book Prize and an assessor for NT Connections.
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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...
Supergrass, Barrowland, Glasgow review - nostalgia played wi...
It is a family affair at Supergrass shows these days. There were plenty of parents and offspring filing onto the Barrowland’s famous old...
Louis Cole, Roundhouse review - nothing is everything
London's iconic Roundhouse, packed to the rafters, provided the perfect setting for the UK premiere of Louis Cole's groundbreaking album ...
Album: Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive
Following on from an impressive set with the Libertines – last year’s No 1 album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade – Peter Doherty...
Here We Are, National Theatre review - Sondheim's sensa...
You don't have to be greeting the modern day with a smile unsupported by events in the wider world to have a field day at Here We Are....
Riefenstahl review - fascinating fascism? Portrait of the Na...
There used to be an unwritten rule among BBC commissioners about how long an interval had to pass before greenlighting a new documentary on a...
Giant, Harold Pinter Theatre review - incendiary Roald Dahl...
When Mark Rosenblatt was preparing his debut play, the miseries of the assault on Gaza were still over the horizon. Now they are here,...
'Classic-era prog’s Olympian pinnacle': Pink Floyd...
Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”, the ineffable progressive rock epic that occupies side two of...
The Surfer review - Nicolas Cage is relentlessly down and ou...
“Don’t live here, don’t surf here,” is the menacing motto (sounds more scary with an Australian accent) of the tanned, muscular denizens of Luna...
Einkvan, Det Norske Teatret, The Coronet Theatre review - al...
Watching the stricken faces on the split screen, I felt at times like callow Farfrae in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge: when faced...