David Benedict
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Anything Goes, Barbican review - an explosion of joy
"Times have changed", we're informed in the cascadingly witty title number of the Cole Porter...
Zola review - high-energy comic thriller tackles sex work
It’s hard to imagine a movie more of its time than Zola, as it takes on...
Wonderville, Palace Theatre review - magic and illusion fami...
Variety is a form of entertainment most usually seen on Saturday night television these days, but Wonderville is an attempt to bring it...
Album: Alan Vega - Alan Vega After Dark
Following in the slipstream of wide critical acclaim for posthumous album ...
Brauss, BBC Philharmonic, Gernon, BBC Proms review - surpris...
Two nights after the Scottish Chamber Orchestra had brought the first great E flat major symphony to the Proms – Mozart’s 39th – a serendipitous...
First Person: young musicians Brooke Simpson and Erin Black...
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain’s Hope...
Album: Tomu DJ - Feminista
The endless circles and spirals that dance music moves in can take you to some strange places.
It is, after all, a little...
RhineGold, Birmingham Opera Company, Symphony Hall review -...
The love of power corrupts, the power of love falters or fails. The essence of...
Johnston, BBCNOW, Bancroft, BBC Proms - laments and luminosi...
The Proms are back, even if they don’t yet feel remotely...
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir: Magma review - love burns in debut no...
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir’s Magma is certainly not an easy read. It describes, in short...