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Kate Bassett

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Kate is an arts journalist and a drama critic for The Times. She has written on theatre, film, books, dance and comedy for the Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman etc. Her book In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize, Sheridan Morley Prize and HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize in 2013.

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Wang, Lapwood, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - grace and pow...

It takes stiff competition to outshine Yuja Wang, who last night at the Barbican complemented her spangled silver sheath with a disconcerting pair...

My Favourite Cake review - woman, love, and freedom

The taxi cab has become a recurring motif in modern Iranian cinema, perhaps because it approximates to a kind of dissident bubble within the...

Beethoven Sonata Cycle 1, Boris Giltburg, Wigmore Hall revie...

A happy, lucid and bright pianist, a forbidding Everest among piano sonatas: would Boris Giltburg follow a bewitching, ceaselessly engaging first...

The Band Back Together, Arcola Theatre review - three is a d...

We meet Joe first at the keys, singing a pretty good song, but we can hear the pain in the voice – but is that...

Music Reissues Weekly: Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs

Although Dagenham’s Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs are less than a footnote in the story of beat boom-era Britain, appearances on archive...

The Critic review - beware the acid-tipped pen

The setting is the lively 1930s London theatre world, but any sense that The Critic will be a lighthearted thriller should soon be...

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, National Gallery review - pass...

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers includes many of his best known pictures and, amazingly, it is the first exhibition the...

Kim's Convenience, Riverside Studios review - KC and th...

One wonders what sitcom writers will do when supermarkets finally sweep the last corner shops away with nobody left old enough to buy...