fri 09/06/2023

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Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an e...

This frothy bio-fantasy about the 18th Century composer...

War Pony review - life on the Pine Ridge reservation in sout...

Set on the lands of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota, War...

Princess Ida, OAE, Wilson, QEH review - musical brilliance u...

Sullivan’s score for his eighth collaboration with Gilbert is vintage work, mostly equal to the splendid sentinels flanking it, Iolanthe...

Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery review - living in a materia...
It is fitting that I watch Otobong Nkanga’s performance on a stranger’s smartphone screen. Solid Maneuvers, 2015, is about...
Album: McFly - Power to Play

When McFly returned to our loudspeakers in the summer of 2020 with Young Dumb Thrills, the record marked their first in a decade. The...

Bezuidenhout, The English Concert, St Martin-in-the-Fields r...

An evening of Mozart favourites in a landmark church on a sunny evening: that might suggest a perfect recipe for gently soporific tourist...

Patriots, Noël Coward Theatre review - crash-bang brilliant...

With apocalyptic floods pouring through the Kakhovka dam, and millions of Ukrainians displaced or bereaved, it doesn’t feel decent to be laughing...

First Person: composer Kate Whitley on a new work for the Bo...

We at the Multi-Story Orchestra have been writing a new piece of music about social media. In one of the writing sessions I remember one of our...

Le Tigre, Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow review - letting out...

There was a youthful tinge to the jubilant chorus of “here we, here we, here we f****** go” that greeted Le Tigre arriving on stage. The band may...

Yours Unfaithfully, Jermyn Street Theatre review - resonant...

Miles Malleson, known as an inter-war character actor who popped up in numerous small roles on stage and screen, was also a...

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