Kate Bassett
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Kate is an arts journalist and a drama critic for The Times. She has written on theatre, film, books, dance and comedy for the Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman etc. Her book In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize, Sheridan Morley Prize and HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize in 2013.
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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...
Onegin, Royal Ballet review - a poignant lesson about the pe...
It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of...
Blu-ray: Stray Dog
Kurosawa’s 1949 thriller probes post-war morality in a Tokyo whose ruins and US occupation mostly remain just out of shot, in a heatwave causing...
Nakariakov, SCO, Emelyanychev, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh...
What a delight to see an almost full Queen’s Hall for a programme solely of...
Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - pa...
It’s been 50 years since the USA bowed to the inevitable and pulled out of Vietnam, in the midst of harrowing scenes of anguish and chaos. Apple’s...
The Flying Dutchman, Opera North review - a director’s take...
Saturday night could have given us the opportunity to witness the Opera North debut of Canadian soprano Layla Claire at the Grand Theatre, as well...
Play On!, Lyric Hammersmith review - and give me excess of i...
If you saw Upstart Crow on television or on stage in the West End, you’ll know the schtick of Sheldon Epps’ dazzling show ...
Amy Gledhill, Soho Theatre review - delightfully bawdy take...
At the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Amy Gledhill won best show for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster, ostensibly a cheery collection of stories...
Album: Inhaler - Open Wide
You could be easily forgiven for thinking that the young indie rockers, Inhaler, would stick to the formula that has already served them so well...
Music Reissues Weekly: You Got Me Hooked! - More Marylebone...
After co-fronting Vinegar Joe with Robert Palmer, Elkie Brooks first charted as a solo artist in 1977 with “Pearl’s a Singer.” Yet there was more...