aleks sierz
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Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.
Articles By Aleks Sierz
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Slipknot, Arena Birmingham review – Iowa metal-heads tear th...
Given Slipknot’s studied image as arch misanthropes, their imposing singer Corey Taylor spent an unexpected amount of time between songs on the...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Game Theory - Across The Barrier Of Soun...
Since this column last caught up with the totemic California art-popsters Game Theory, band mainstay Gil Ray passed away. He died in January 2017...
Cargill, BBCSO, Saraste, Barbican review - less is more in S...
Jukka-Pekka Saraste doesn’t visit London much these days. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the...
Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music, BBC Four review...
Drums away: Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police and a score of other groups, composer for films, video games and operas, now beams...
Robert Henke CBM 8032, Barbican - a vision of possibilities...
Robert Henke is to techno fans as Leo Fender and Les Paul are to...
Album: Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming
The first album from the Boston-bred songwriter Squirrel Flower opens and closes with autobiographical songs. “I-80”...
Uncle Vanya, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a superlative co...
Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of...
The Personal History of David Copperfield review – top-drawe...
Armando Iannucci’s move away from the contemporary political satires that made his name, first signalled by his bold, uproariously brilliant...
The Sunset Limited, Boulevard Theatre review - all talk, no...
Cormac McCarthy’s two-hander, premiered at Chicago's mighty Steppenwolf Theatre in 2006, has by this point been everything short of an ice ballet...