ASH Smyth
Bio
ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com, Guernica, Stop Smiling, and the Sri Lankan Sunday Times. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a potted history of WS Gilbert's "Little List".
Articles By ASH Smyth
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Britney, Soho Theatre review - finding the funny in a brain...
A brain tumour isn't usually the subject of a comedy show but Britney, written and performed by comedy duo Charly Clive and Ellen...
Sleaford Mods, Dreamland, Margate review – musical news from...
Sleaford Mods are livid. About everything. But then, aren’t we all? If any single voice could represent this particularly bewildering era, it...
Banine: Days in the Caucasus review - revolutions, pogroms a...
By fifteen Ummulbanu Asadullayeva — or Banine, to call her by the name under which she wrote and translated — had already lived more than most of...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Terry Allen
Torso Hell tells the story of an American soldier whose limbs were blown off in Vietnam. Amazingly, he and his buddies survived, and in...
CD: The Cranberries – In the End
In the End, the final album by Limerick band the Cranberries arrives three decades after they first formed and just over a year after...
Brockes-Passion, AAM, Egarr, Barbican review - fleshly Hande...
Whips, scourges, sinews, blood and pus: where Bach’s two Passions...
SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, Isango Ensemble, Linbury...
While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace, this elegy for black lives lost over...
St Matthew Passion, Ex Cathedra, Skidmore, Symphony Hall Bir...
For the final instalment of their three Matthew Passions this Holy Week, Ex Cathedra gave a large scale performance of Bach’s oratorio in their...
Red Joan review - Judi Dench can't lift lumbering espio...
The decades-long stage relationship between Judi Dench...
