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Nancy Evans

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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...

Conclave review - secrets and lies in the Vatican's inn...

“You either got faith or you got unbelief, and there ain’t no neutral ground,” as Bob Dylan sang, but Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) isn’t...

Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre review - perfectly pitche...

It's all too easy to underplay the melancholy of ...

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Other Pa...

Percy Jackson is neither the missing one from Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, nor an Australian Test cricketer of the...

Album: Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road

When first I clicked on the stream for this album, I really wasn’t sure about it. In fact, I thought I wasn’t going to like it, much as I had...

Expendable, Royal Court review - intensely felt family drama

British theatre excels in presenting social issues: at its best, it shines a bright light on the controversial subjects that people are thinking,...

Senna, Netflix review - the life and legend of Brazil's...

Brazilian Formula One triple-champion Ayrton Senna was already...

The Purists, Kiln Theatre review - warm, witty, thoughtful a...

Watching Dan McCabe’s 2019 play, older folk might be reminded of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s indelible lyrics, “Can blue men sing the...

Landman, Paramount+ review - once upon a time in the West

Is there only one Taylor Sheridan? His output is so prolific you’d think there must be half a dozen of them. Although little acknowledged in the...

The Dead, ANU, Landmark Productions, MoLI Dublin review - vi...

James Joyce’s Misses Morkan have gone up in the world for their Christmas gathering this year, from the upper part of a “dark, gaunt house” on the...