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Nigel Williamson

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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...

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...