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It’s a Wonderful Life, English National Opera review - Capra...
Looking for a sparkly operatic musical, well sung and played, slick and saturated in a range of mainstream styles that stop short in the year...
Bones and All review - eat, don't heat
You expect gross-out movies to send your hands flying in front of your eyes. But Luca Guadagnino's ludicrous Bones and All is...
Basel Saleh, Sansara, United Strings of Europe, St Martin-in...
This collaboration between two young and exciting ensembles, the...
Nanny review - no spoonfuls of sugar in this spooky tale
Nanny is being marketed as a horror movie, and arachnophobes should certainly beware, but it’s also a stylish exploration of race...
Wet Leg, O2 Forum Kentish Town review - eclectic glee from a...
Arriving to the second night of two shows in the same venue, you would expect it to be a little quieter. But Wet Leg’s second outing at the O2...
Elf, Dominion Theatre review - hit musical revival slays it...
Just about the three toughest tricks to pull off in the theatre are making a...
Henry V, Shakespeare's Globe review - anatomy of a viol...
It begins in darkness. All that can be heard is the sound of a human struggling painfully for breath so that even before the lights go up we have...
The Manhattan Transfer, Queen Elizabeth Hall review - a clas...
On a dreary evening in our dark winter of discontent, a couple of hours spent in the company of The Manhattan Transfer was a joyous uplift. The...
Album: Sophie Jamieson - Choosing
Choosing packs a punch – the effect of which lingers. What’s captured by these 11 songs comes across as unfiltered, disconcertingly...
Dinner with Groucho, Arcola Theatre review - often opaque
The set at the Arcola for Frank McGuinness’s...