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...
La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review -...
Just now, the notion of a long-term project that concludes in 2041 sounds like an optimistic bet on the far future worthy of some 18th-century...
La Cocina review - New York restaurant drama lingers too lon...
La Cocina is one of those films that cuts an excellent trailer, succinctly delivering just enough characters, plot and visual...
Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia
It’s been 14 years since Alison Krauss and Union Station released an album – 2011’s Paper Aeroplane. The world’s shed a few skins since...
Batsashvili, Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester revie...
Mariam Batsashvili, the young virtuosa pianist from Georgia, is a star. No doubt about that. Trained at the Liszt Academy in Weimar and winner of...
Blu-ray: Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper changed cinema with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) for pennies in rancid Southern heat, but came closest to a mainstream...
Der fliegende Holländer, Irish National Opera review - saili...
So much looked promising for Irish National Opera’s first Wagner: the casting, certainly, the conductor – Music Director Fergus Sheil knows and...
The Potato Lab, Netflix review - a K-drama with heart and wi...
When the world’s darkness is too much, there is a Netflix rabbit-hole you can disappear down to a kinder place: the...
Lauren Mayberry, Barrowland, Glasgow review - solo star stay...
It took until the last song before Lauren Mayberry started to well up onstage, which was good going. The singer had mentioned early on the...
Album: Toria Wooff - Toria Wooff
On the cover of her eponymous debut album, the Bolton-raised Toria Wooff reclines on a church pew located in Stanley Palace, a 16th-century...