Tom Birchenough

Articles By Tom Birchenough

Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse review - fraught family reunion blisteringly told Friday, 23 August 2019 Read more...	DVD: Are You Proud? Tuesday, 13 August 2019 Read more...
Peter Pan, Troubadour White City review - off to a flying start Monday, 29 July 2019 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: Ash Is Purest White Tuesday, 23 July 2019 Read more...
Varda by Agnès review - a richly moving film farewell Friday, 19 July 2019 Read more...	Equus, Trafalgar Studios review - passionate intensity Tuesday, 16 July 2019 Read more...
DVD/Blu-ray: A Case for a Rookie Hangman Tuesday, 09 July 2019 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: Sauvage Saturday, 22 June 2019 Read more...
Three Sisters, Maly Drama Theatre, Vaudeville Theatre review - a Chekhov of luminous clarity Thursday, 20 June 2019 Read more...	Sweat, Gielgud Theatre review - searing drama of working life Thursday, 13 June 2019 Read more...
Bronx Gothic, Young Vic review - fervid intensity Monday, 10 June 2019 Read more...	DVD: Sink Saturday, 08 June 2019 Read more...
The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Cheek by Jowl/Pushkin Theatre, Barbican review - theatre satire updated Thursday, 06 June 2019 Read more...	King Hedley II, Theatre Royal Stratford East review - concentrated, enveloping drama Monday, 03 June 2019 Read more...
Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad review - a Soviet national epic Sunday, 02 June 2019 Read more...	DVD/Blu-ray: Maurice Friday, 17 May 2019 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

There are no white-sheeted ghosts in this year’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. The...

Since its revival in 2020, All Creatures Great and Small has drawn big audiences internationally and become Channel 5’s biggest hit, even...

Travis arrived onstage with the theme tune from classic sitcom Cheers as an accompaniment. The cavernous OVO Hydro might not be a place...

Robert Eggers' strength as a director is his ability to bring historical periods alive with gritty, tactile realism. He does this...

For many thousands of years, humans have turned to art to tell stories about themselves and others because it feels good. It feels good because we...

Though Death in Paradise is an Anglo-French production filmed in Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, the Frenchness seems to have...

Enough is as good as a feast, they say. But sometimes, especially at Christmas, you crave a properly groaning table. At the Wigmore Hall, The...

A suitable place to find yourself out for the winter solstice, buttoning up for the longest night of the year, was at the Cadogan Hall off Sloane...

There are some years where my pick for album of the year is obvious; something stands out so...