sat 02/08/2025

Tom Birchenough

Tom Birchenough's picture

Articles By Tom Birchenough

Mommy

Read more...

Nina Conti Clowning Around, BBC Four

Read more...

DVD: Pictures of the Old World

Read more...

Dreamcatcher

Read more...

Appropriate Behaviour

Read more...

Hostages, BBC Four

Read more...

theartsdesk in Moscow: Remembering George Costakis

Read more...

The Romanians Are Coming, Channel 4

Read more...

Maidan

Read more...

Love Is All

Read more...

Dancing in Jaffa

Read more...

Blu-ray: Bad Timing

Read more...

Touched by Auschwitz, BBC Two

Read more...

Holocaust: Night Will Fall, Channel 4

Read more...

Surviving the Holocaust - Freddie Knoller's War, BBC Two

Read more...

DVD: Southern District

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - Passion in the Ca...

“Powerful, Timeless, Inspiring” it says on the front cover of the programme-book for this year’s supposedly 297th Three Choirs Festival at...

BBC Proms: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaljuste rev...

Arvo Pärt was into his 40s before he made had his Big Musical Idea: simplicity. He has spent the subsequent half-century pursuing this ideal,...

Top Hat, Chichester Festival Theatre review - top spectacle...

After 76 years, you’d have thought they could’ve come up with a better story! Okay, that’s a cheap jibe and, given the elusive...

Late Shift review - life and death in an understaffed Swiss...

Floria (the superb Leonie Benesch: The Crown; The Teachers’ Lounge; September 5) is a nurse, working the severely understaffed...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Alright Sunshine / K Mak at t...

Alright Sunshine, Pleasance Dome ...

The Naked Gun review - farce, slapstick and crass stupidity

The original Naked Gun series (spun off from the Police Squad! TV show) brought reliable belly-laughs to the Eighties and...

Album: Reneé Rapp - Bite Me

The stage musical update of Mean Girls, and the film adaptation, pushed Reneé Rapp into the public eye. She played queen bitch Regina...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, BBC One review - love, de...

Readers of Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel will be familiar with its themes of war, extreme suffering, ageing, memory, fidelity and...

BBC Proms: Kholodenko, BBCNOW, Otaka review - exhilarating L...

According to the programme, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra is heard somewhere around the world every other week. In which case I’ve...