Reviews
Points of Departure, Brighton Festival 2021 review - Ray Lee's harbour-based sound art impresses
Thursday, 06 May 2021
They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums.
Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects, Gagosian Gallery review - apocalyptic sheds
Thursday, 06 May 2021
Sheds have flourished in lockdown: they’ve always been places to escape to and in the past year, when spruced up as home offices, even more so. They’re also emblems of isolation.
BBC Young Musician 2020 Finale, BBC Four review...
Tuesday, 04 May 2021
“You have to be careful you’re not judging the piece,” cautioned a pearl-necklaced Nicholas Daniel, great oboist and winner of the 1980 BBC Young...
Being Mr Wickham, Original Theatre Company online...
Tuesday, 04 May 2021
It wasn’t Jane Austen’s subtlest move, naming her roguish soldier George Wickham. As countless GCSE English teachers have patiently read in...
Line of Duty, Series 6 Finale, BBC One review -...
Monday, 03 May 2021
WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERSHalf the fun of this series of Line of Duty has been the crescendo of conspiracy theories surrounding it, fuelled by the...
Money, Southwark Playhouse online review - ethical dilemmas for the Zoom generation
A vivid and credible production that is also limited by its form |
Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy Club, the Hop Farm review - strong kick-off to 2021 live comedy
Kent venue provided picturesque backdrop |
Tarantula, Southwark Playhouse online review – spine-tingling love and trauma
Philip Ridley’s new monologue is a dazzling masterclass in storytelling |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 7
Once again, the essential series comes up with the goods |
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation review - genius dogged by disappointment
Empathic documentary honours two literary legends |
Intergalactic, Sky One review - lovely CGI, shame about the drama
Cosmic jailbreak yarn struggles to convince |
Psappha, Phillips, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester online review - Turnage world premiere
New music specialists mark 30 years of enterprise and dedication |
Comedy podcasts round-up 5: politics, relationships and spoofery
Chatty women and happy couples |
The Artist's Wife review - uninspired portrait of dementia in the Hamptons
An artist's wife rediscovers her own creativity: Lena Olin and Bruce Dern star |
Viewpoint, ITV review - the perils of the peeping tom police
Who's watching whom in DC Young's surveillance operation? |
Booth, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall online review - contemporary music programme lacks diversity
Excellent playing and singing can’t disguise the absence of variety |
Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review - epic voyage on a luxury vessel
Lavish late-Romantic seascapes with a first-rate crew |
Kate Lebo: The Book of Difficult Fruit review - a rich, juicy delight
Essays on tricky and fascinating fruits, food and medicine, pain and care |
Line of Duty, Series 6, Episode 6, BBC One review - the pace accelerates for AC-12's final countdown
Apocalypse soon as the end of the line looms |
Oscars 2021: Sluggish, yes, but some surprises too
Hopkins and McDormand pull last-minute upsets in pared-down ceremony |
Brian Elias Focus Day, Concert 1, Wigmore Hall online review - portrait of the artist in miniature
Young artists deliver a compelling composer showcase |
Black Bear review - unexpected knotty treat
Plaza delivers a career-best performance in rug-pulling drama |
The Winter's Tale, RSC, BBC Four review - post-war poise colours a solid production
Overcoming lockdown challenges, a broadcast first for Stratford |
Album: Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
Line-up changes are no obstacle to sustained excellence |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Jason Pierce and co’s first album reappears |
Greig, I Fagiolini online review - poetry and music to redeem a damaged world
Voces8 spring festival marks Earth Day by 'Re-Wilding the Wasteland' |
Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human review - charting our age-old relationship with music
The futility of capturing music with words shows in this beguiling attempt at “big history” |
The Importance of Being Earnest online review - Oscar Wilde updated for the Nando's generation
Yasmeen Khan's spoof has a big heart |
Mare of Easttown, Sky Atlantic review - Kate Winslet shines in finely-drawn Pennsylvania mystery
Tangled secrets in a dirty old town |
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