mon 08/09/2025

Helen Hawkins

Articles By Helen Hawkins

I Fought the Law, ITVX review - how an 800-year-old law was challenged and changed

Read more...

The Paper, Sky Max review - a spinoff of the US Office worth waiting 20 years for

Read more...

Interview, Riverside Studios review - old media vs new in sparky scrap between generations

Read more...

Little Trouble Girls review - masterful debut breathes new life into a girl's sexual awakening

Read more...

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked satire?

Read more...

Eight Postcards from Utopia review - ads from the era when 1990s Romania embraced capitalism

Read more...

Every Brilliant Thing, @sohoplace review - return of the comedy about suicide that lifts the spirits

Read more...

Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert, Sadler's Wells review - exciting dancing, if you can see it

Read more...

Good Night, Oscar, Barbican review - sad story of a Hollywood great's meltdown, with a dazzling turn by Sean Hayes

Read more...

The Daughter of Time, Charing Cross Theatre review - unfocused version of novel that cleared Richard III

Read more...

Giselle, National Ballet of Japan review - return of a classic, refreshed and impeccably danced

Read more...

That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comic staging of the battle of the Bohèmes

Read more...

Till the Stars Come Down, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - a family hilariously and tragically at war

Read more...

Too Much, Netflix - a romcom that's oversexed, and over here

Read more...

The Other Way Around review - teasing Spanish study of a breakup with unexpected depth

Read more...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunity to give new stage life to a Who classic

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 92: Marianne Faithful, Crayola Lectern,...

VINYL OF THE MONTH

Black Lips Season of the Peach (Fire)

...

Ganavya, Barbican review - low-key spirituality

At the start or her show, the white-robed singer Ganavya does something unusual: while other performers usually warm their audience up before...

Music Reissues Weekly: Chiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Ye...

Chiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Years at 45 RPM is a triple album marking the 50th anniversary of the first release...

I Fought the Law, ITVX review - how an 800-year-old law was...

ITV continues its passion for docudramas about injustice, which you can’t...

theartsdesk at the Lahti Sibelius Festival - early epics by...

It’s weird, if wonderful, that vibrant young composers at the end of the 19th century should have featured death so prominently in their hero-...

Deaf Republic, Royal Court review - beautiful images, shame...

The Ukraine war is not the only place of horror in the world, but it does present a challenge to theatre makers who want to respond to events that...

Album: Josh Ritter - I Believe in You, My Honeydew

Americana rocker Josh Ritter can write a beautiful song....

Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, Underbelly Boulevard Soho revie...

Laura Benanti has been enchanting Broadway audiences for several decades now, and London has this week been let in on the secret that recently...