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Neko Case/Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Village Underground, London
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Neko Case wasn't about to launch a Yeah Yeah Yeahs-style pre-emptive strike aimed at the Village Underground's amateur camera-wielders. She doesn't mind the odd photograph, she...
Raven Girl, Royal Ballet/ Witch-Hunt, Bern Ballett/ The Great Gatsby, Northern Ballet
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Ballet is telling stories again. Last night Wayne McGregor’s debut as a narrator followed hot on the heels of Cathy Marston’s Witch-Hunt for Bern Ballett, both in the Royal Opera...
Classical CDs Weekly: Frank Martin, Mei Yi Foo, Powerplant
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Frank Martin: Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel Orchestre de la Haute École de Musique de Genève/Gábor Takács-Nagy (Claves)Prokofiev’s three-act Cinderella ballet score remains...
Lohengrin, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Friday, 24 May 2013
What is one to make of Lohengrin, Wagner’s last “opera” (as opposed to music drama), in this day and age? Is it a medieval romance, like Weber’s Freischütz but with a deus ex...
The Tudors Season, BBC Two
Friday, 24 May 2013
Is the BBC taking dictation from the Gradgrindian brain of Michael Gove? According to the education secretary’s latest wacky diktat, what the nation’s children want is facts facts...
The Hangover Part III
Friday, 24 May 2013
You don't have to be a fan of The Hangover franchise to get most of the jokes in Part III, although it certainly helps. How else would you understand why the line “It all ends...
tv
Mantel goes head to head with Starkey as Henry VIII executes everyone all over again for our pleasure
The welcome return of the legacy of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld
new music
Memorable moments aplenty as Americana goddess makes a long-awaited UK return
Passion and politics as country's great polymath tours a powerful new album with a powerful new band
six of the best
Shakespeare, Peter Nichols and Mormons: a bit of everything in theartsdesk's tips
Radio Show
A versatile American mezzo in London tells of her female-friendly debut album
classical
Child-centred pianism, rugged orchestral music and an enjoyable disc of contemporary songs
A joyful and accomplished opening to this year's Lufthansa Baroque Festival
Rousing Antipodean choral music, a downbeat symphony and lots of tangos
opera
WNO in their element in wide-stage Wagner marred by vocal problems
Comedy is king in a Falstaff revival which is consistently enjoyable but could be a little less nice
Strauss's opera reluctantly enters the Battle of Britain courtesy of a young German director
theatre
London ain't Alabama, but Harper Lee's attack on racial intolerance still resonates
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines cultural identity with insight and intelligence
A story-centric stage adaption of Khaled Hosseini's sentimental best-seller
visual arts
Her obsession with death and decay was leavened by a wicked sense of humour
On the eve of a new exhibition of his kinetic saints, the artist talks about death, destruction and turning 50
The welcome return of the legacy of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld
dance
Story-ballets are back, with witches, raven girls and the all too scrutable Gatsby
Guillem weaves her game-changing magic in Forsythe and Ek
Nine leading men answer the call to ballerina Alina Cojocaru's gala
comedy
Comedian who eschews the usual routes to fame proves to be both incisive and decidedly different
gaming
The dark, the mutants and the other survivors – fear rules this bleak first-person shooter



















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