Helen Hawkins
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The Real Ones, Bush Theatre review - engrossing, enjoyable a...
Platonic love should be simple — basically you’re best mates. And without the complications of sex, what could go wrong? Waleed Akhtar, whose big...
Prom 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys
Out of emergencies may come revelations. Sir András Schiff has broken his leg, and we wish him a super-speedy recovery. At the Proms, his promised...
Frang, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - a concerto performanc...
Hauntings, memories, echoes: Antonio Pappano has started his official tenure as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra by looking back...
The Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death r...
Based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect...
Lee review - shaky biopic of an iconic photographer
Anyone who has seen Lee Miller’s photographs – those taken of her in the 1920s when she was a dazzling American beauty, those she took as a...
Our Country's Good, Lyric Hammersmith review - lively b...
The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 award-winning play about a performance of Farquhar’s ...
Why Am I So Single?, Garrick Theatre review - superb songs i...
Going to the theatre can be a little like going to church. One communes on the individual level, one’s faith in the stories...
Reawakening review - a prodigal daughter returns, or does sh...
“I’d know her. Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. Would I know her? Would I?” John (a brilliant Jared Harris, who’s also an executive producer)...
Album: Floating Points - Cascade
I made a terrible mistake when I first got this LP: I played it on my laptop speakers. That’s not the straight up foolishness you might think,...
LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - singular adventures for a ne...
Somehow those of us required to translate the musical experience into words look for the moments which defeat us. One such was the extraordinary...