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Camp Siegfried, Old Vic review - the banality of evil, brill...
A stealthily powerful play gets the production of its dreams in Camp Siegfried, which marks a high-profile UK presence for the American...
Ben Howard, Royal Festival Hall review - authentic and reass...
Ben Howard is a man of very few words, unless of course, there’s a...
Esther Yoo, Yekwon Sunwoo, Wigmore Hall review - Korean duo...
The duo partnership between violinist Esther Yoo and...
The Lodger, Coronet Theatre review - underdeveloped family d...
The Coronet Theatre is a beautiful space – it’s a listed Victorian building, and the bar’s like something out of a film about Oscar Wilde....
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle review - period piece speak...
More than once, reading Colson Whitehead’s latest novel Harlem Shuffle, the brilliant Josh and Benny Safdie movie Uncut...
LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - a glimpse into Bruckner’s wor...
For most Bruckner fans, the multiple editions and revisions...
Anuvab Pal, Soho Theatre review - Empire and Bollywood colli...
Anuvab Pal may be a new name to some UK audiences (although many will know him from the global...
Sebastian Faulks: Snow Country review - insects under a ston...
Historical fiction – perhaps all fiction – presents its authors with the problem of how to convey contextual information that is external to the...
Leeds International Piano Competition Finals, Leeds Town Hal...
It’s easy to forget that what you see in a competition final isn’t always the full story, the jury members’ votes in this case based on what had...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 66: Etta James, BABii, George Harrison,...
As the summer folds away on itself, theartsdesk on Vinyl returns. Beset by backlogs at pressing plants and delayed by COVID, it's...