alexandra coghlan
Bio
Alexandra is the classical music critic of the New Statesman, and has written on arts for The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Prospect, Gramophone, Opera Now, The Oxford Times and The Monthly. She was formerly Performing Arts Editor at Time Out, Sydney. She writes about classical music, theatre and film for theartsdesk.
Articles By Alexandra Coghlan
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Hatton Garden, ITV review - ancient burglars bore again
Have we passed peak Hatton Garden? It’s now four years since a gang of old lags pulled off the biggest...
Primal Scream, The Haunt, Brighton review - up-close, short,...
Primal Scream have played in this city, in the recent past, at the 4500 capacity...
First Person: Conductor Maxime Pascal on Stockhausen at the...
Stockhausen stands alongside Monteverdi and Beethoven as a composer who exploded the understanding of his art. Stockhausen deeply changed the...
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and ot...
There are children screaming in a nearby playground. Their voices rise and fall, swell and drop. Interspersed silences fill with the sound of...
Cannes 2019: Diego Maradona review - entertaining but skin-d...
Director Asif Kapadia's documentary on the...
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, BBC Two review - demoli...
Is there some tongue-in-cheek irony in BBC Two...
Blu-ray: The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window (1944) was the first of the two riveting...
Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic, Series 8 Finale review – who...
WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS! And so it’s over. Eight years of thrilling, fantastical, often emotionally devastating, in some senses ground-...
Sting and Shaggy, Roundhouse review - wilfully uncool and ir...
Musical odd couples don't come much stranger than Sting and Shaggy. Last night, at the...
La Damnation de Faust, Glyndebourne review – bleak and compe...
Mid-career, moving ever further away from composing for concert platform and church towards the stage,...