Reviews
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, Breach Theatre online review – a riveting watch
Monday, 06 April 2020
Artemisia Gentileschi has definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance painter in the style of Caravaggio, and the first woman to become a member of Florence’s Accademia di Arte del Disegno, her work was attributed to her father Orazio for centuries.
Ozark, Series 3 review, Netflix - money-laundering saga hits new heights
Monday, 06 April 2020
While not the most headline-catching show on Netflix, Ozark has been steadily accruing critical accolades (including a couple of Emmys) and a devoted audience. Perhaps this superb third series will mark the tipping point where Ozark crosses over from cliqueishness to mass adulation.
Classical Music/Opera direct to home 5 -...
Monday, 06 April 2020
Necessity has certainly been the mother of invention over the past three weeks, and orchestras especially, left in the dark with no means of...
Rumpelstiltskin, Sadler's Wells Digital...
Monday, 06 April 2020
The latest in Sadler’s Wells’ Digital Stage programme – an impressively assembled online offering to keep audiences entertained during the shutdown...
Rachel Fairburn, Go Faster Stripe review - smart...
Monday, 06 April 2020
Rachel Fairburn says she didn't know what to wear for the gig. She's dressed in an all-black ensemble; hotpants, animal-print boots and a feather...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters
The ‘Smashed Full Of Wonder’ comp celebrates zeitgeist-sensitive Eighties Brit-combo |
One Man, Two Guvnors, National Theatre at Home review – bliss, utter comic bliss
NT Live version of this masterpiece of farce is now available for free |
The Platform review - timely, violent and effective
New Netflix high-concept horror skewers capitalism |
Lazy Susan, Soho Theatre On Demand review - sketch duo's ingeniously plotted show
Freya Parker and Celeste Dring examine male behaviour |
ReMastered: Tricky Dicky and the Man in Black, Netflix review - dynamic saga of music and politics
Riveting hour-long documentary about Johnny Cash's White House concert in 1970 |
The Turn of the Screw, Opera North, OperaVision review - claustrophobic visions of terror and beauty
Strongly-cast revival keeps the ambiguities of Henry James's ghost story in play |
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, BBC Four review - the undying allure of the spying game
A voyage through the secret world on celluloid |
Wild, Hampstead Theatre online review - timelier than anticipated
Mike Bartlett's 2016 play chimes with our topsy-turvy times |
Four Kids and It review – a family friendly yarn that needs more magic
Jacqueline Wilson’s contemporary update is a so-so Blytonesque adventure |
Oliver Craske: Indian Sun, The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar review - a master receives masterly treatment
Definitive biography of India's most influential musician |
Bacurau review – way-out western
Sonia Braga and Udo Kier star in a genre mash-up with lashings of spaghetti sauce |
The Trip to Greece, Series Finale, Sky 1 review - bittersweet swansong for the cantankerous comrades
Farce, vanity and profound seriousness somehow hang together |
Czech Philharmonic Benefit Concert online review – profound musicianship in sombre masked fundraiser
Three violinists, two cellists, four pianists and a harpist play superbly to an empty hall |
The Whalebone Box review - documentary through unreliable surrealism
A different kind of road trip with artist Andrew Kötting |
Pen15, Sky Comedy review - the horror of adolescent schooldays revisited
Thirty-somethings Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle revisit their Y2K pubescence |
The Steph Show, Channel 4 review - magazine show debuts from host's front room
Steph McGovern to the rescue |
Elton John’s iHeart Living Room Concert for America, YouTube review - the real star was a Mayo Clinic doctor named Elvis
Sir Elton John: this time we can't stand by |
The Croft, Original Theatre online review – give me the remote
Original Theatre’s tartan gothic thriller is complex but also a bit overwrought |
Christine and the Queens/Instagram review - musical missives during lockdown
French singer-songwriter's petits cadeaux for her fans |
Fitzcarraldo Editions wins Republic of Consciousness Prize
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s visceral tour de force scoops prize for outstanding fiction by a small press |
Batwoman, E4 review - can Bruce Wayne's female cousin fill his bat-costume?
Ruby Rose plays Batwoman, Gotham City's newest saviour |
Le nozze di Figaro, Garsington Opera, OperaVision review - natural comedy, musical sublimity
Durable period setting enshrines perfect characterisations. Plus a Handel special |
Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, Netflix review - edgy and original material
US comic takes no prisoners |
Sam Bourne: To Kill a Man review – the woman who fought back
A highly improbably but immensely addictive thriller on the #MeToo fallout |
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