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Steve Earle, Royal Festival Hall
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Steve Earle is country music's great polymath - short story writer, playwright, novelist, activist, actor, oh yes, and singer and songwriter of some of the most acutely...
Rob Newman, Little Angel Theatre
Thursday, 23 May 2013
There's a quite a contrast between the 12,000-seat Wembley Arena in 1993 where, with the help of his erstwhile writing and performing partner David Baddiel, Rob Newman “invented”...
Disgraced, Bush Theatre
Thursday, 23 May 2013
There’s one big problem about being an Asian actor in America — you just don’t get the big parts. So the multitalented Ayad Akhtar put acting on hold, and turned to screen writing...
Something in the Air
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Cinema sometimes seems to have left the Age of Aquarius behind. The filmmakers who came of age in the Sixties have long since said what they needed to, and nowadays the decade’s...
The Kite Runner, Theatre Royal Brighton
Wednesday, 22 May 2013The absolute loyalty of a little boy to his under-deserving friend is what swells The Kite Runner’s heart and fuels its tragedy. So you can’t really blame Matthew Spangler’s stage...
The King of Marvin Gardens
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Bob Rafelson’s 1972 The King of Marvin Gardens takes its title from the Atlantic City Monopoly property, connoting the New Jersey resort’s then imminent future as a board game for...
disc of the day
CD: British Electric Foundation - Music of Quality and Distinction Vol 3: Dark
Resurrected after 22 years, does this covers project still work?
film
Melancholy meets irrational optimism in Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood classic
tv
The welcome return of the legacy of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld
The entertaining tale of the protracted birth of a British rock scene which took America on at its own game
new music
Resurrected after 22 years, does this covers project still work?
Mouthy London trio's debut is loaded with enjoyable bawdiness and attitude
The pioneer of continuous music astonishes while Bon Iver’s preferred artist Gregory Euclide paints live, on stage
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
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
Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez and Michael Spyres triumph over adversity
theatre
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
Guillem weaves her game-changing magic in Forsythe and Ek
Nine leading men answer the call to ballerina Alina Cojocaru's gala
The Royal Ballet prima ballerina on what gives meaning to her brilliant career
comedy
Comedian who eschews the usual routes to fame proves to be both incisive and decidedly different
gaming
The game of 2012 gets a 1980s action make-over in this both dumb and smart expansion



















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