Rupert Thomson
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Album: Camila Cabello - C,XOXO
Oh this is sad. Up until this point Camilla Cabello has been a good pop star. Her biggest songs were loaded with familiar-to-the-point-of-...
theartsdesk Q&A: Lucie Shorthouse is flying high with...
Lucie Shorthouse is enjoying some high-profile TV action with her roles in Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts, about the adventures of an all-...
Album: Johnny Cash - Songwriter
Wow, this is a trip back in time. A visit from "The Man in Black" 21 years after he passed away, just a few months after his beloved wife, June...
Taylor Swift, Wembley Stadium review - the Eras Tour lights...
Unless you were around when The Beatles toured America in the mid-1960s, it’s doubtful you've heard anything like this. In 40 years of extensive...
Strike: An Uncivil War review - shame of the nation
Forty years later, they have haggard faces, grey hair if any, and sorrowful expressions tinged with incredulity at the outrages perpetrated...
Album: Linda Thompson - Proxy Music
She has one of the most distinctive voices in folk and contemporary British music, impossible to forget once heard, and impossible to ignore. Even...
Bartlett, Fantasia Orchestra, Fetherstonhaugh, Proms at St J...
Any programme featuring Gershwin’s top large-scale works might tend to the “pops” side. Bernstein’s West Side Story Overture and even the...
My Father's Fable, Bush Theatre review - hilarious and...
Following the huge success of Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, which transfers soon to the West End, the...
Blu-ray: Army of Shadows
One of those rare films that leaves you speechless after the closing credits, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (L'Armée des...
Giulio Cesare, Glyndebourne review - every number a winner f...
How much better can a classic get? Sebastian Scotney more or less asked the same question on theartsdesk the last time Giulio...