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Kristin M Jones

Articles By Kristin M Jones

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Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Disney+...

Director Thom Zimny has become the audio-visual Boswell to Bruce Springsteen’s Samuel Johnson, having made...

The Buddha of Suburbia, Barbican Theatre review – farcical f...

Hanif Kureishi’s 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia begins like this: “My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost...

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Rigoletto, English National Opera review - another hit for M...

How we used to mock those stuck-in-the-mud opera houses that wheeled out the same moth-eaten production of some box-office favourite decade after...

How To Survive Your Mother, King's Head Theatre review...

It is unsurprising to learn in the post-show Q&A that each audience receives Jonathan Maitland’s new play based on his 2006...

Album: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

Could melancholia be an elixir of creative youth? Or is it that sad people were never really that youthful, so age suits them? Certainly it seems...

Industry, BBC One review - bold, addictive saga about corpor...

All three seasons of Industry are now on iPlayer, and after watching the most recent one and then backtracking for another...

theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera - let's make thre...

Name three operas framing dramas within, and you’d probably come up with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos...

Dr Strangelove, Noël Coward Theatre review - an evening of d...

Even by Stanley Kubrick’s standards, Dr Strangelove went through an extraordinary evolutionary process. After starting it off as a...

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, La Nuova Musica, Bates, Wigmore Hal...

Last time I saw the lovelorn Cyclops from Handel’s richly turbulent cantata, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, he was in a warehouse at Trinity...