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Album: Panelia - Nothing and All At Once

Nothing and All at Once is the debut album from New Delhi...

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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...

Music Reissues Weekly: John Cale - The Academy in Peril, Par...

The return to shops of a consecutive sequence of five of John Cale's Seventies albums through different labels is undoubtedly coincidental. All...

Blu-ray: Black Tuesday

The universal fear of dying is the theme of Black Tuesday, a terse, bleak 1954 thriller that is belatedly being recognized as a major...

The Importance of Being Earnest, National Theatre review - n...

If Harold Pinter’s work represents, as he slyly joked, the weasel under the cocktail cabinet, then...

Conclave review - secrets and lies in the Vatican's inn...

“You either got faith or you got unbelief, and there ain’t no neutral ground,” as Bob Dylan sang, but Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) isn’t...

Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre review - perfectly pitche...

It's all too easy to underplay the melancholy of ...

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Other Pa...

Percy Jackson is neither the missing one from Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, nor an Australian Test cricketer of the...

Album: Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road

When first I clicked on the stream for this album, I really wasn’t sure about it. In fact, I thought I wasn’t going to like it, much as I had...

Expendable, Royal Court review - intensely felt family drama

British theatre excels in presenting social issues: at its best, it shines a bright light on the controversial subjects that people are thinking,...