thu 06/02/2025

James Rampton

Bio
James writes on television and comedy for the Daily Telegraph, Independent, The Times and The Scotsman.

Articles By James Rampton

Three Miles North of Molkom

Read more...

Julia McKenzie's Miss Marple

Read more...

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

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

It followed some...

Album: Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Twilight

It was only six months ago that Hifi Sean and David McAlmont released their Daylight album. A fine disc of summery dance pop that was...

The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera review - long...

Who’s in and who’s not – on the secret, the joke, the relationship, the family, the club? That’s the fulcrum of Joe Hill-Gibbins’ ingeniously...

Mrs President, Charing Cross Theatre review - Mary Todd Linc...

The phenomenal global success of Six began when two young writers decided to give voices to the wives of a...

Album: Biig Piig - 11:11

Is there such a thing as a boundary between pop and alternative any more? The presence of strange characters like Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish and...

Onegin, Royal Ballet review - a poignant lesson about the pe...

It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of...

… Blackbird Hour, Bush Theatre review - an unrelentingly tou...

In a world tainted with racism and homophobia, the ...

Blu-ray: Stray Dog

Kurosawa’s 1949 thriller probes post-war morality in a Tokyo whose ruins and US occupation mostly remain just out of shot, in a heatwave causing...