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Paul Jesson

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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...

Hansel and Gretel, Shakespeare's Globe review - too sac...

Growing up within a few hundred yards of a major dock, I hardly knew darkness or quiet - the first time I properly felt their...

Album: The Unthanks - In Winter

By and large, most Christmas albums seem to fall into one of two camps. There’s either the lively poptastic soundtracks favoured at family or work...

Grand Theft Hamlet review - intriguing documentary about Sha...

On July 4, 2022, one of the most unusual performances in Hamlet’s lengthy and much travelled CV took place: an in-game stream...

Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog

Rachel Yoder says she wrote her debut novel Nightbitch as a reaction to Donald Trump’s first term as President, with what she saw as its...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on 'All We...

Payal Kapadia’s lyrical fiction feature debut...

Giltburg, Bournemouth SO, Wigglesworth, Portsmouth Guildhall...

A time must come again when British orchestras return to complete Tchaikovsky ballet scores in concert, as in the BBC glory days of the great...

Rumours review - pallid satire on geopolitics

It must have seemed such a delicious premise – a Buñuel-esque comedy about world leaders trapped at a luxury retreat as the apocalypse...

Album: Duster - In Dreams

There’s a lot of anger at algorithm-driven music discovery around – a lot of it justified, as the big platforms push the already-big acts and...