wed 28/05/2025

Owen Richards

Articles By Owen Richards

The Toll review - once upon a time in west Wales

Read more...

Black Bear review - unexpected knotty treat

Read more...

Sisters With Transistors review - the forgotten frontier

Read more...

Filmmaker Darius Marder: 'Deafness is a culture. That's not being PC'

Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Daryl Hall

Read more...

Baby Done review - romcom done right

Read more...

Filmmaker Frank Marshall: 'People don’t understand what geniuses The Bee Gees were'

Read more...

Mogul Mowgli review - displacement and generational trauma

Read more...

Filmmaker Bassam Tariq: 'Great cinema doesn't need to be perfect - embrace the imperfections'

Read more...

The Secret Garden review - blooming charming

Read more...

Time review - a stunning portait of enduring love

Read more...

Eternal Beauty review - imagination in every frame

Read more...

Miss Juneteenth review - a ray of Texan sunshine

Read more...

Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui: 'The disability community is the world community'

Read more...

Young Ahmed review - jihadist drama misses the mark

Read more...

Album: Glass Animals - Dreamland

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Album: Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a Lie

Ready to Live a Lie is so sonically vaporous it almost isn’t there. While the album’s 11 tracks draw from continental European musical...

Il Trittico, Opéra de Paris review - reordered Puccini works...

So here in Paris, as at Salzburg in 2022, it’s no longer “Puccini’s Trittico” but “the Asmik Grigorian Trittico”. Which would be...

When the Light Breaks review - only lovers left alive

Grief takes unexpected turns over the course of a long Icelandic...

Marwood, Crabb, Wigmore Hall review - tangos, laments and an...

James Crabb is a musical magician, taking the ever-unfashionable accordion into new and unlikely places, through bespoke arrangements of a...

Dennis, RSNO, Dunedin Consort, Søndergård, Usher Hall, Edinb...

"How long is Wagner’s Ring Cycle?" That’s not the opening to a joke, it’s a genuine question asked by a friend who I’d met up with before heading...

Dara Ó Briain, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review - master stor...

Dara Ó Briain’s  has described his previous show So… Where Were We? – in which he describes his search for his birth...

Album: Anna Lapwood - Firedove

This album Firedove (Sony Classical), surely, has to be seen as part of a bigger story: that of organist, choir director and...