David Benedict
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Music Reissues Weekly: Stan Tracey Trio - The 1959 Sessions
What’s now been titled The 1959 Sessions represents an unreleased studio album completed by the Stan Tracey Trio on 5...
Long Promised Road review - another attempt to probe the fra...
There has been no shortage of documentaries about king...
Album: Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Mr. E’s music examines hellish depths, but always climbs back towards the light....
Raymonda, English National Ballet, Coliseum review - a creak...
Neglected classics, whether books, plays or ballets, are usually neglected for a reason, and so it is with the three-act ballet Raymonda...
Nightmare Alley review - a dazzling trip through a heart of...
Director Guillermo del Toro has described Nightmare Alley as “a straight, really dark story”, lacking the supernatural elements in his...
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Piccadilly Theatre review - spect...
One of the many theatrical casualties of Omicron in December was the...
Memory Box review - exquisitely made drama set in Lebanon
Memory Box is that rare thing, a glimpse into a lost world from its traumatised inhabitants. Made by the...
Album: Earl Sweatshirt - Sick!
Around 2017, Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, known professionally as Earl Sweatshirt, said he wanted to push his music in a more experimental direction,...
First Person: Femi Elufowoju Jr. on directing Verdi's...
I find that my experience of living as a Black man in the UK cannot help but inform the way I approach my work and never more so than with...
Russell Howard, Netflix special review - joyous return to li...
In 2019, Russell Howard was all set to celebrate his 20th year in...