Saskia Baron
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theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Mike Hodges
Mike Hodges arrived in cinema through television, including a stint on the rightly revered Granada Television current affairs series World in...
Album: The Jayhawks - XOXO
If one song best captures the overall mood of XOXO, it's the Beatles-meets-country strains of "Living in a...
Dom Joly/ Daniel Sloss, Brent Cross reviews - UK's firs...
It was a weary and frustrated Dom Joly (**) who left the stage after performing the first drive-in comedy show in the UK. Sadly...
Classical music/Opera direct to home 19 – and two before a l...
It’s begun: very limited access to live music, the...
Les Blancs, National Theatre at Home review – triumphant rev...
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, where it opened...
Back Roads review - nice cheekbones, not much else
Back Roads has languished largely unseen since its completion in 2017, and one can see why: lurid to the point of absurdity, this...
Family Romance, LLC review - the chameleon blues
Werner Herzog’s appearance in The Mandalorian paid for this deadpan,...
Toast, Lawrence Batley Theatre online review - pungent adapt...
I knew what a Howard Hodgkin painting would look like before I ever saw one because of...
Album: Polly Scattergood - In This Moment
A decade ago, Polly Scattergood was Mute Records’ newest, most-likely-to signing and, while she never crossed over like similar unconventional...