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Tim Cumming

Articles By Tim Cumming

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A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic review - older, wiser, and ye...

Familiarity has bred something quite fantastic with the Old Vic Christmas Carol, which is back for a seventh season and merits ringing...

Boat Story, BBC One review - once upon a time in Yorkshire

It was as long ago as January last year that the prolific Williams brothers,...

Dariescu, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Man...

John Storgårds found himself literally facing both ways for the third item on the BBC Philharmonic’s programme on Saturday: towards the audience,...

Mark Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris review - a show...

The vast and various spaces of Frank Gehry’s monumental Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris suit the needs of the thrilling Mark Rothko exhibition...

Blu-ray: King and Country

British anti-war films inspired by “the war that” failed “to end all wars” include Oh! What a Lovely War, The Return of the Soldier...

The Dante Project, Royal Ballet review - brave but flawed ta...

Singular in its variousness, this is a three-act ballet that need some unpicking. No wonder those hooked on first acquaintance in 2021, like t...

CMAT, Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow review - an evening of ex...

There was a moment towards the end of this exuberant evening when Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson compared the show to a pantomime. This was an...

MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio, Lois, Williams, RSNO, M...

It is not every day that a new choral work by a living composer can confidently be labelled a masterpiece. Yet this is what we have here. James...

Oh What A Lovely War, Southwark Playhouse review - 60 years...

In Annus Mirabilis, Philip Larkin wrote,


"So life was never...