Bruce Dessau
Bio
Bruce specialises in music, TV and comedy. He writes for The London Evening Standard and is the author of biographies of numerous major figures, including George Michael and Rowan Atkinson. His latest book is Beyond A Joke: Inside The Dark World of Stand-Up Comedy (Random House). He is also the editor of comedy website beyondthejoke.co.uk
Articles By Bruce Dessau
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Monica review - sombre American drama
There’s a rich seam of folk stories about changelings, infants snatched from home and replaced with a substitute child, to the horror and...
Album: Cher - Christmas
I honestly never thought I'd add a Cher song to my painstakingly curated ...
Natalie Dessay, Philippe Cassard, Milton Court review - flas...
It could have been a winner: a charismatic star soprano of great emotional and interpretative intelligence, a top pianist given a little space to...
Album: Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish
The cat in the hat with the mellifluous voice delivers his Christmas Wish for the festive season, his first Christmas album, and it...
Paul Lewis, Wigmore Hall review - Schubert sonatas revisited...
A decade has passed since Paul Lewis concluded an endeavour of a kind never previously undertaken: to perform, over two and a half years and...
The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre review - Pinter's dis...
As the audience enters, thick mist envelopes the thrust stage and jazz music fills the...
Blu-ray: Blackhat
The Boxing Day release of Michael Mann’s first feature in eight years, Ferrari, finally follows up Blackhat, a Chris Hemsworth-...
Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city
Folklore tends to depict Dublin as a convivial and picturesque city, with a bar on every corner full of revellers on wild stag weekends, but that’...
Voces8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, Smith, Voces8 Centre...
There’s a game called Whamageddon, where people see how deep into December they can go without hearing “Last Christmas”. I’m like that, but with...
Dreaming and Drowning, Bush Theatre - dense and intense mono...
Kwame Owusu’s 55-minute one-hander does...