Tom Priestley

Articles By Tom Priestley

Wednesday, 15 August 2012 Read more...

When your special guest is a young soprano with all the world before her, the total artist already, your programme might seem to run itself. Yet...

Here in Europe we mainly see subtle, lyrical Iranian films, targeted at international festivals or art house audiences, so it’s great to get the...

Complicité, the adventurous theatre company led today by Simon McBurney, one of its founders, is now 40. Over the last four decades, McBurney and...

There’s something about the Irish coastal village that makes filmmakers see...

Maybe you’ve heard the Native American parable about the two...

One wonders if Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan pondered long over their debut musical’s title. Silvio might...

Handel’s Theodora – voluptuously beautiful, warm-to-the-touch music, yoked to a libretto of chilly piety about Christian martyrdom in 4...

Sierra Pettengill has made the politest angry film I have seen. It has an incendiary quality that comes precisely from its calm stance towards its...

There’s something charmingly unassuming and humble about The Zombies. Nowadays their 1968 second album Odyssey and Oracle regularly...

With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...