Edward Seckerson
Bio
Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.
Articles By Edward Seckerson
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The Turn of the Screw, English National Opera review - James...
At first, you wonder if the peculiar voice of Henry James’s maybe unreliable narrator can be preserved in this production. Surely the outcome is...
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...
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...
Album: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante - Sweet Release
Sweet Release opens up a landscape of redemption by riding the rails of a classic ...
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...