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Paul Bullock

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera North review - one of the b...

Martin Duncan’s 2008 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of the best and funniest things Opera North has ever done – back...

Rose Matafeo, Arcola Theatre review - Starstruck star muses...

Rose Matafeo knows how to make an entrance, as she enters the stage with a choreographed dance. She's useless at ending things, she says – shows,...

Album: MC5 - Heavy Lifting

MC5 were the original proto-punkers who led the charge against wafty hippy music in the late Sixties and early Seventies. They were touted by...

A Raisin in the Sun, Lyric Hammersmith review - of race and...

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is not only the first play by a black woman to premiere on Broadway, back in 1959, but it’s also...

Salem’s Lot review - listless King remake

A boy’s dead friend scratching at his first-floor window, Nosferatu-like vampire Barlow rearing up with heart attack shock…The Texas Chain Saw...

Music Reissues Weekly: Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa

In 2022, Spritualized’s Jason Pierce described his musical goal as "trying to find somewhere between Arvo Pärt and The Stooges.” Amongst the most...

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...