Boyd Tonkin
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review - a post-human para...
Planet of the Apes is the most artfully replenished franchise, from the original series’ elegant time-travel loop to the reboot’s rich,...
Sappho, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - a glitzy celeb...
Who is Sappho? What is she? Not much is known about the...
Gomyo, National Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, National Concer...
No soloist gets to perform Shostakovich’s colossal First Violin Concerto without mastery of its fearsome technical demands. But not all violinists...
The Winter's Tale, Royal Ballet review - what a story,...
If there is a more striking, more moving, more downright enjoyable way to experience...
Sansara, Manchester Collective, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester...
Manchester Collective have come a long way since their early days of chamber music in dark and dingy Salford basements and former MOT test centres...
La Chimera review - magical realism with a touch of Fellini
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as...
Twelfth Night, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review -...
In Shakespeare's day theatre was regarded as "wanton" by those of a Puritan disposition who feared boys dressed as girls could engender wicked...
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review...
This long, fascinating documentary was apparently intended as the centrepiece of last autumn’s BFI celebration of the films of Michael Powell and...
Multiple Casualty Incident, The Yard Theatre review - NGO me...
We open on one of those grim, grim training rooms that all offices have – the apologetic sofa, the single...