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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...
Manchester Collective, RNCM review - exploring new territory
Manchester Collective, now very much a part of the establishment world of new music, are still enlarging their territory. For this set, performed...
Henry Gee: The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire - Why Ou...
Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK...
All Happy Families review - unhappy in their own way
Director Haroula Rose’s gentle, good-hearted new comedy-drama All Happy Families takes its title from the famous first sentence...
Album: The Loft - Everything Changes, Everything Stays The S...
“Sitting on a sofa, cigarettes and beer, ten years disappear…agreeing to agree, just to get along.” By going into the difficulties of...
Black Bag review - lies, spies and unpleasant surprises
Michael Fassbender recently starred in Paramount+’s rather laborious spy drama The Agency, but here he finds himself at the centre of a...
Weather Girl, Soho Theatre review - the apocalypse as surrea...
Can Francesca Moody do it again? Fleabag’s producer has brought Weather Girl to London, after a successful run at...
Clueless: The Musical, Trafalgar Studios review - a perfectl...
Before there was Barbie: The Movie, before there was Legally Blonde, there was Clueless, the Valley Girl movie that...
Album: Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow
America – the pro-wrestling-ass nation, the ultimate society of the spectacle – famously likes things big, and modern country and western music...
Bavouzet, BBCSO, Stasevska, Barbican review - ardent souls i...
Not to be overshadowed by the adrenalin charges of the Budapest Festival Orchestra the previous evening, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its...
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Listed: The World and Beyond - London Jazz Festival 2014Tuesday, 11 November 2014Jazz. Is there any other term in contemporary culture so widely recognised, yet so difficult to... Read more... |
Listed: Wall Flowers - The Best of BerlinSaturday, 08 November 2014It has long since become a cliché that the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination is implanted on... Read more... |
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Listed: 10 Mozart Operas You've Never Heard (of)Saturday, 28 June 2014Mozart operas – we’ve all been there, whistled the arias, untangled the love triangles (quadrants/... Read more... |
Listed: The Best UK Summer Music Festivals For FamiliesSaturday, 14 June 2014While you give your tent an airing in anticipation of festival season, think about the imaginative... Read more... |
Listed: The World Cup's Most Beautiful GoalsSaturday, 07 June 2014Is football a thing of beauty? It depends who you ask. If you’re that way inclined, it is possible... Read more... |
Listed: 10 Great Trouser RolesThursday, 08 May 2014It's the genre of gender-bending and cross-dressing, where women play warriors and men sing like... Read more... |
Listed: Unmissable BBC PromsSunday, 27 April 2014The first bit of the annual Proms ritual is now out of the way, with the publication of the... Read more... |
Listed: Top 10 Children's Theatre ShowsSaturday, 12 April 2014If you are seeking to keep small children entertained this Easter, there's no need to sit around... Read more... |
Listed: Hauschka's Abandoned CitiesMonday, 07 April 2014Hauschka is a musician and composer from Düsseldorf, performing in what has been dubbed a "post-... Read more... |
Listed: Celebrating Dylan ThomasSunday, 30 March 2014It won’t have escaped the attention of anyone with an ear for poetry that Dylan Thomas turns 100... Read more... |
Listed: The Vikings - Life and LegendTuesday, 04 March 2014The British Museum's exhibition The Vikings: Life and Legend promises to redefine the Viking age... Read more... |
Listed: 10 American paintings before PollockSunday, 16 February 2014The National Gallery recently embarked on a first: they acquired their first American painting. Men... Read more... |
Listed: The Best Uncredited CameosSaturday, 18 January 2014There are no awards, nor nominations. On the plus side there are no publicity chores either. And... Read more... |
Listed: The 12 Derangements of ChristmasSunday, 22 December 2013We at The Arts Desk are as fond as the next person of swans-a-swimming, partridges and pear-trees,... Read more... |