ASH Smyth
Bio
ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".
Articles By ASH Smyth
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Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human review - charting our age...
Music and time each dwell inside the other. And the more you attend to musical sounds, the...
The Importance of Being Earnest online review - Oscar Wilde...
Oscar Wilde's fabulous play satirised Victorian England and contained...
Album: Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
When Laurence Binyon wrote: “Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn…” he was, of course, talking about the...
Mare of Easttown, Sky Atlantic review - Kate Winslet shines...
Dark family dramas set in unglamorous, unprosperous communities in the north-east of the USA have become a genre unto themselves. One thinks here...
The Gesualdo Six, St Martin-in-the-Fields online review - pe...
For their concert debut at St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Gesualdo Six brought a programme of English motets for the final instalment in...
Blu-ray: Straight Shooting / Hell Bent
There are moments in Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then "Jack") Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-...
A Splinter of Ice, Original Theatre Company online review -...
There’s such a genial feel to the pairing of Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in...
Helen McCrory: 'If there's one interesting thing a...
Each generation is given an actress who can do everything – be...
Promising Young Woman, Sky Cinema review - Emerald Fennell...
After winning a couple of Baftas, and with five nominations at next week’s Oscars, Promising Young Woman comes surging in on the crest of...
