David Benedict
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Emilia, Vaudeville Theatre review - shouting for change
Emilia Bassano Lanier is not a household name. But maybe she should be. Born in 1569, she was one of the first women in England to publish a book...
Pose, BBC Two review - transgender goes mainstream
NYC, 1987. AIDS is ravaging the city, Reagan’s in power, Trump is in his tower. The American dream is available - to some. And for some of those...
Downstate, National Theatre review - controversial but also...
"Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful and wounding...
The White Crow review - gripping depiction of the brilliance...
Genius is as genius does, and Rudolf Nureyev made sure...
Mike Nelson, The Asset Strippers, Tate Britain review – exhi...
Mike Nelson has turned the Duveen Galleries into a museum commemorating Britain’s industrial past (pictured below right). Scruffy...
The Bay, ITV, review - Broadchurch goes north
In the 1970s, the Mancunian stand-up Colin Crompton had a famous routine about Morecambe. He characterised Morecambe as “a sort of cemetery with...
CD: Sleeper - The Modern Age
While Oasis have so far resisted the temptation of the big pay-off that a Gallagher family reunion would ensure, plenty of other...
The Bay at Nice, Menier Chocolate Factory review - David Har...
David Hare knows a thing or two about sustaining an...
Bach St John Passion, Les Arts Florissants, Christie, Barbic...
William Christie kicked off Passion season in London this year with a particularly sombre reading of the...