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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...
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat review - jazz-themed docume...
The British writer and Africa specialist Michela Wrong recently wrote a whistle-stop summary of the upheavals that afflicted Congo in the early...
Gladiator II review - can lightning strike twice?
It has been nearly 25 years since Russell Crowe enjoyed his Oscar-winning finest hour as Maximus in...
Kenny Barron Trio, Ronnie Scott's review - a master of...
Kenny Barron, revered as the best jazz pianist around, is a perfect gentleman and a master of “cool” – a quality once described in great depth by...
Music Reissues Weekly: Magazine - Real Life, Secondhand Dayl...
“Let's walk down memory lane the Magazine way. Let's regurgitate fifth-rate Low [the David Bowie album] period pieces. Let's plonk plonk...
Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall review - cracked ritual from ro...
Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially the same band, once...
The Elixir of Love, English National Opera review - a tale o...
Sparkling Italian comic opera might have been just the tonic at this time. Trouble is, the bar was set so high recently by Wexford Festival Opera’...
Maddaddam, Royal Ballet review - superb dancing in a confusi...
Valiant souls who have recently read the Margaret Atwood trilogy on which this new Wayne McGregor piece for the...
ARK: United States V by Laurie Anderson, Aviva Studios, Manc...
Picture this: framing the stage are two pearlescent clouds which, throughout the performance, gently pulsate with flickering light. Behind them on...
The Sound Voice Project, Linbury Theatre review - an art ins...
What does it mean to have a voice? And what does it mean to lose it? Those are the questions the award-winning Sound Voice Project has explored –...