Boyd Tonkin
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The Story of Looking review – bedside musings on how and wha...
Mark Cousins, the multi-award winning director...
Podium odes to joy: conductors at the 2021 BBC Proms
They must have been especially overjoyed to be back in front of (or with back to the greater part of) a live audience. But inspiring musicians is...
Rose Plays Julie review - a sombre story of rape, adoption a...
Rose (Ann Skelly; The Nevers) is adopted. The name on her birth certificate is Julie and the possibility of a different identity –...
The Magic Flute, Royal Opera review - all but a guarantee of...
Rarely has the revolving door of opera twirled so efficiently. David...
Album: Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner...
For those amongst you who listened obsessively to the soundtrack of Call Me By Your Name, the idea of an album by cult...
Hofesh Shechter Company, Double Murder, Sadler's Wells...
If I had to sum up in a single impression the work I’ve seen of Brighton-based, Israeli-born choreographer...
The Starling, Netflix review - a slender idea unsatisfyingly...
Despite an alluring cast which includes Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd and Kevin Kline, The Starling is doomed to be remembered, if at...
Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty, Dulwich Picture Gallery...
When you stand in front of Helen Frankenthaler’s Freefall, 1993, in your mind you drop into its gorgeous, blue abyss. It is enveloping,...
Album: Lil Nas X - Montero
Lil Nas X is good at being a pop star. Like, what could pop culture need more than a young, flamboyant, witty gay rapper from the deep south who...
Is God Is, Royal Court review – blister, flare and burn, bab...
God is a tricky one. Or should that be One? And definitely not a He. So when she says take revenge, then vengeance is definitely not only hers,...