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Owen Richards
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Blessed with a red sunset and an adoring crowd, Noel Gallagher brought life to the ruins of Cardiff Castle. With support from fellow 90s alumnus Gaz Coombes, and Wales’s...
Veronica Lee
Saturday, 25 May 2019
They’re back and they’re looking and sounding good – and Spice Girls mania took over Dublin’s city centre for several hours before their concert yesterday. Hotels were booked out...
Joseph Walsh
Saturday, 25 May 2019
It has been ten years since Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan first debuted I Killed My Mother at the Cannes Film Festival. A decade on he returns in competition with a title that...
Liz Thomson
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Was it imagination or did The Waterboys’ audience at London’s Roundhouse, invited to sing along to “The Nearest Thing to Hip”, really sing extra-loud and lustily on the line “in...
Demetrios Matheou
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Chilean Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a beautifully crafted example of the kind of Latin drama that is slow-burn and sensorial, conveying emotion through gestures and looks...
Graham Rickson
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Bartók: Complete String Quartets Quatuor Diotima (Näive)Technical infallibility is now a non-negotiable when it comes to Bartók's six fiendishly difficult string quartets....
Tim Cumming
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Soundwalk Collective is a multi-disciplinary audio-visual collective founded by Stephan Crasneanscki, a musical psycho-...
Boyd Tonkin
Friday, 24 May 2019
By some strange alignment of the stars, Peter Sellars’s staged version of Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of...
Saskia Baron
Friday, 24 May 2019
Rocketman opens with its hero in flamboyant stage costume stomping into a drab group therapy session. Pulling the sparkling...
Owen Richards
Friday, 24 May 2019
Oh Sees have long been touted of as the perfect festival band. Their racuous, high-tempo rock'n'roll always riles up the...
Jenny Gilbert
Friday, 24 May 2019
The first surprise is that this hasn’t been done before. The poems that comprise TS Eliot’s Four Quartets are so embedded...
Joseph Walsh
Friday, 24 May 2019
Like Snowpiercer before it, Bong Joon-ho’s rage-fuelled satire Parasite puts class inequality squarely in its sights. This...
Veronica Lee
Friday, 24 May 2019
Most people know Emily Atack from The Inbetweeners, where she played Charlotte, the object of Will's desire. More recently,...
Mark Kidel
Friday, 24 May 2019
Anatole Litvak’s The Night of the Generals (1967), beautifully restored here to 4K, is a tortuous and at times entertaining...
Nick Hasted
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Rokia Traoré’s passage through this year’s Brighton Festival has been central, binding it to her Malian identity in a series...
Boyd Tonkin
Thursday, 23 May 2019
You seldom hear a Champions League-level roar of approval at the Wigmore Hall. Last night, though, Igor Levit drew a throaty...
Joseph Walsh
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Moments before Quentin Tarantino’s blistering, outrageous work screened at Cannes, a message was delivered on behalf of the...
Rachel Halliburton
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Mammon and Yahweh are the presiding deities over an epic enterprise that tells the story not just of three brothers who...
Tom Baily
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Next up in Disney’s parade of live-action revamps is: yes, Aladdin. The other recent re-dos – Cinderella, Beauty and the...
disc of the day
CD: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith - The Peyote Dance
Peyote, poetry and a voyage to the otherworld with Patti Smith
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tv
Summer of Rockets, BBC Two review - pride and prejudice in 1950s Britain
Real-life experiences make Stephen Poliakoff's Cold War drama ring true
Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me, BBC Two review - is there an alternative to a life on anti-depressants?
Former spin doctor explores solutions to his mental health issues
Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport, ITV review - 80 million passengers but not much action
Fifth season of meandering documentary gets off to an uneventful start
film
Cannes 2019: Matthias & Maxime review - a gently charming new drama
Xavier Dolan shows a new level of maturity with his tale of male friendship and more
Too Late To Die Young review - an absorbing, Chilean coming-of-age
The idealism of a green community holds little allure for a teen on the brink of adulthood
Rocketman review - fabulous musically but a tad miserable too
Elton John settles old scores and pulls out all the stops
new music
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Cardiff Castle review - wonder within castle walls
Former Oasis guitarist tops an excellent day of music
Spice Girls, Croke Park Dublin review - uncomplicated fun
Older, wiser - and absolutely fabulous: Spice World 2019 kicks off deliriously
The Waterboys, Roundhouse review - energetic delights
From Burns and Yeats to Mick Jones - an eclectic dialectic
classical
Classical CDs Weekly: Bartók, Bruckner, Busoni
Hungarian string quartets, a late romantic symphony and an epic piano concerto
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gershon, Sellars, Barbican review – embodiments of remorse
Grandeur, and fussiness, in Peter Sellars' staging of a choral masterwork
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall review – full-spectrum Bach from a prodigious talent
The Russian-born Berliner delivers gripping pianistic theatre
opera
Donnerstag aus Licht, Pascal, RFH review – indulgent genius at work
Me, myself and I on stage: the trinity of Stockhausen, Michael and Jesus
First Person: Conductor Maxime Pascal on Stockhausen at the Southbank Centre
The man in control of a cosmic opera tonight on its visionary German composer
La Damnation de Faust, Glyndebourne review – bleak and compelling makeover
Berlioz's Romantic Everyman seen in a sobering light
theatre
The Lehman Trilogy, Piccadilly Theatre review - stunning chronicle of determination and dollars
A simultaneously sweeping and intimately human production
Superhoe, Brighton Festival 2019 review - a darkly vital one-woman show
Nicôle Lecky's raw, persuasive play about sex work, social media and female empowerment
ANNA, National Theatre review - great thriller, shame about the tone
Intriguing Cold War thriller is thoroughly immersive, but lacks a convincing sense of history
dance
Four Quartets, Barbican Theatre review - ultimate stage poetry
TS Eliot's poems staged with dance and music are a revelation
Tribe//Still I Rise, Brighton Festival 2019 review - an evening of poetic movement
Convincing choreography based on the poetry of Maya Angelou
Traptown, Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, Brighton Festival 2019 review - obscure to the point of ridiculous
An uneasy and inaccessible evening of performance that searches for abstraction but gets lost in its own concept
comedy
Emily Atack, Clapham Grand review - I'm a Celebrity... star's first solo show
Likeable but light on laughs
Al Murray as the Pub Landlord, Embassy Theatre Skegness review - comic pulls his punches
Ageing character has little new to say on Brexit
Ruby Wax, Brighton Festival 2019 review - how to be human
An evening of laughs alongside real lessons in mindfulness and neurology
gaming
Rage 2 review – garish but great post-apocalyptic shooter
Challenge The Authority in this 'Mad Max on mushrooms' renegade romp
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World War Z review - bloodthirsty fun with the zombie apocalypse
Chainsawing the brain-eaters as you battle against the tide of the undead
visual arts
Manga, British Museum review - stories for outsiders
Enormous exhibition on the Japanese art of graphic stories
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and otherworldly onyx
Duds and gems in mixed show of paintings and sculptures
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