William Berger
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'I think of her as a proto-punk': documentarist Sv...
Anita Pallenberg was a vital presence in the Stones’ most vital years. Her bright eyes and hungry mouth betrayed a ferocious appetite for pleasure...
Passing Strange, Young Vic review - exuberant pocket musical...
From New York’s Public Theater, the venue that nurtured Hamilton, comes another estimable pocket...
theartsdesk Q&A: Eddie Marsan and the American Revolutio...
He’s not the kind of actor who has paparazzi following him...
Album: Samana - Samana
The final track of Samana’s third album is titled “The Preselis,” after the west Welsh mountain range – the place antiquarians suggested as the...
The Great Escape Festival 2024, Brighton review - 12 hours o...
If the weather’s good TGE Beach is a grand start to a day. As it sounds, it’s a purpose-built seafront space to the east of central...
DVD/Blu-ray: Billy Connolly - Big Banana Feet
The most striking thing about the 1976 documentary (restored and re-released by the BFI) is just how polite Billy Connolly comes across as. Not...
Rebus, BBC One review - revival of Ian Rankin's Scottis...
The previous incarnation of Ian Rankin’s Scottish detective on ITV starred, in their contrasting styles, John Hannah and Ken Stott. For this ...
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sousa, St Martin-in...
Better (much better, indeed) late than never. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique should have given their cycle of Beethoven symphonies at...
Die Zauberflöte, Glyndebourne review - cornucopia of visual...
Five years after it first clattered onto the ...
Hough, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - a...
It’s probably a bit early to be getting misty-eyed about the approaching end of Sir Mark Elder’s time as music director of the Hallé, but the...