Tim Cumming
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Taylor Swift, Wembley Stadium review - the Eras Tour lights...
Unless you were around when The Beatles toured America in...
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 Cesare...
Kelly Clancy: Playing with Reality - How Games Shape Our Wor...
For a couple of decades, the free video game America’s Army was a powerful recruitment aid for the US military. More than a shoot-em-up,...
Album: Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk
Madeleine Peyroux made her name with her second album, 2004’s Careless Love. It consists almost completely of cover versions, delivered...
Music Reissues Weekly: The Cryin’ Shames - Please Stay, Do T...
Liverpool’s The Cryin’ Shames were responsible for two of mid-Sixties Britain’s most striking single’s tracks. The February 1966 top side “Please...
theartsdesk at Smetanova Litomyšl - three fascinating operas...
What did they put in the water of Czechia’s central Bohemia/Moravia borderlands? From south to north there's Mahler’s birthplace in Kali...
The Exorcism review - salvaged horror movie is a diabolical...
Helpfully, this is a film that reviews itself. Like it says on the posters, “They were making a cursed movie. They were warned not to. They should...
Album: Zara McFarlane - Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Va...
When Zara McFarlane sang the National Anthem at this year’s FA Cup Final, it served as a reminder of quite how adaptable she is, how suited so...
Green Border review - Europe's baleful boundary
We’re used to dabs of colour splashing briefly across black-and-white movies – Spielberg’s Schindler’s List or Coppola’s Rumble Fish...