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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...
Second Best, Riverside Studios review - Asa Butterfield brin...
Your response to Barney Norris’s one-...
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...
Nakariakov, SCO, Emelyanychev, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh...
What a delight to see an almost full Queen’s Hall for a programme solely of...
Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - pa...
It’s been 50 years since the USA bowed to the inevitable and pulled out of Vietnam, in the midst of harrowing scenes of anguish and chaos. Apple’s...
The Flying Dutchman, Opera North review - a director’s take...
Saturday night could have given us the opportunity to witness the Opera North debut of Canadian soprano Layla Claire at the Grand Theatre, as well...
Play On!, Lyric Hammersmith review - and give me excess of i...
If you saw Upstart Crow on television or on stage in the West End, you’ll know the schtick of Sheldon Epps’ dazzling show ...
Amy Gledhill, Soho Theatre review - delightfully bawdy take...
At the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Amy Gledhill won best show for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster, ostensibly a cheery collection of stories...