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Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Linbury Theatre review - to...
Most of us have been there: an impasse in a marriage, a bereavement in a dysfunctional family. Leonard Bernstein certainly had when he composed...
London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip t...
Conclave
Director Edward Berger won an...
The Last of the Sea Women review - a moving tale of feisty t...
“The ocean is our home… Even in my next life I will dive again,” says Geum Ok, one of a band of female divers from Jeju, a volcanic island 60...
First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Ad...
I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my new play The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse. The cast places a cake on...
Timestalker review – she's lost control again
Unlike the controversial Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which challenges many of the same attitudes towards sexual harassment, self-delusion...
Kanga, Manchester Collective, Singh, RNCM Manchester review...
Of all the inventive and enterprising things Manchester Collective do, it’s most often been the playing of a string ensemble led from first desk...
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' a...
Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater, “terrified” of making a full-length...
The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - three bro...
Merchant bankers then eh? It’s not a slang term of abuse for nothing, as the middlemen collecting the crumbs off the cake (in...
Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor review - Mozartian marriage...
Of all the ingenues in all the world of golden TV sitcom, Felicity Kendal was the most innocent, the most wicked, the most deceptive, with an...