Simon O'Hagan

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We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts…
Time is a terrifying force in Romeo & Juliet, and Robert Icke's headlong production never lets playgoers forget that fact. Returning to…
Just a year after the first series, Your Friends & Neighbours returns to titillate and amuse us with the escapades of the moneyed but…
Science on stage is quite the thing at the moment with a revival of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen opening at Hampstead Theatre next week and…
Mountain Call from ECM – it consists of recordings made in Prague in very different contexts and settings between 2003 and 2010 – is a…
If ever there was a piece that epitomised the view that villains are infinitely more fun than heroes, it would be Pierre Choderlos de…
There was something incongruous about seeing Basement Jaxx in a venue best known for regularly playing host to the likes of Scotland’s…
About a dacade ago and then again last year, Seattle’s proto-grungers, Melvins and Birmingham’s grindcore originators, Napalm Death hit the…
François Ozon’s film of Albert Camus's The Stranger, one of the most iconic works of French existential literature, is as well-paced and…
The baldness of the titles the writer-director Stefan Golaszewski gives his TV series — Him & Her, Mum, Marriage and now Babies — is a…