December 2024 | Page 6 | The Arts Desk

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December 2024

Blu-ray: Three Wishes for Cinderella

Messiah, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - once more, with real feeling

The Invention of Love, Hampstead Theatre review - beautiful wit, awkward staging

Albums of the Year 2024: Kneecap - Fine Art

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review - an old foe returns

Messiah, Wild Arts, Chichester Cathedral review - a dynamic battle between revelatory light and Stygian gloom

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Donmar Warehouse review - a blazingly original musical flashes into the West End

Albums of the Year 2024: Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso - Baño María

Strike: The Ink Black Heart, BBC One review - protracted, convoluted puzzler lifted by its leads

Albums of the Year 2024: Mercury Rev - Born Horses

The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world

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