Sheila Johnston
Bio
Sheila worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for 10 years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Sight and Sound, Guardian, Libération, Interview and New York Daily News, among other places.
Articles By Sheila Johnston
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Radio & Juliet/Faun/McGregor + Mugler review - a fashion...
A pas de deux is normally an opportunity for two dancers to express the pinnacle of their skill and...
Dinosaur Pile-Up, O2 Institute, Birmingham review - grungy p...
Dinosaur Pile-Up may have been around for more than a decade, but it would be fair to say that their career has been something of a slow burn....
Les Arts Florissants, Christie, Agnew, Barbican review – spl...
“How many times have you heard the conductor sing?” asked William Christie after the final number, but before the two encores, of last night’s...
Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch, BBCSO, Bychkov, Barbican revie...
“Hieronymus!” bellowed David Wilson Johnson from the Barbican...
Cyrano de Bergerac, Playhouse Theatre review - James McAvoy...
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC's His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of...
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Semyon Bychkov in Prague
It's a very big deal for musical Prague: Czechia's symphonic...
Elizabeth Is Missing, BBC One review - a tender but tough-mi...
In films, as in life, unreliable narrators are not hard to find. But there is something remarkable about the unreliable narrator of Elizabeth...
Fairview, Young Vic review - questioning the assumptions of...
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview comes to...
The Cave review - heroic Syrian hospital workers
War crimes are war crimes, irrespective of the victims’...
Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Wickham, K...
At this time of year the musical world – and particularly the...