Heidi Goldsmith
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New music and jazz critic. Follow @goldsmithheidi
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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...
Gladiator II review - can lightning strike twice?
It has been nearly 25 years since Russell Crowe enjoyed his Oscar-winning finest hour as Maximus in...
Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall review - cracked ritual from ro...
Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially the same band, once...
The Elixir of Love, English National Opera review - a tale o...
Sparkling Italian comic opera might have been just the tonic at this time. Trouble is, the bar was set so high recently by Wexford Festival Opera’...
Maddaddam, Royal Ballet review - superb dancing in a confusi...
Valiant souls who have recently read the Margaret Atwood trilogy on which this new Wayne McGregor piece for the...
ARK: United States V by Laurie Anderson, Aviva Studios, Manc...
Picture this: framing the stage are two pearlescent clouds which, throughout the performance, gently pulsate with flickering light. Behind them on...
The Sound Voice Project, Linbury Theatre review - an art ins...
What does it mean to have a voice? And what does it mean to lose it? Those are the questions the award-winning Sound Voice Project has explored –...
Joy review - the birth pangs of in vitro fertilisation
Marie Curie excepted, movies about female scientists remain scarce, not just because STEM careers and Nobel Prizes still favour men. Now comes the...
Wolves on Road, Bush Theatre review - exciting dialogue, but...
Cryptocurrency is like the myth of El Dorado – a promised land made of fool’s gold. Despite its liberatory potential, it frequently attracts...
Album: Linkin Park - From Zero
The return of Linkin Park has been a long, winding path. The seven years since Chester Bennington's passing have swirled with speculation over...