David Nice
Bio
David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he is a regular voice on BBC Radio 3. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs his own lecture series, Opera in Depth, at the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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Bitter Wheat, Garrick Theatre review - Malkovich monologue i...
John Malkovich is back in town - and he's starring in the most controversial play of the year. Trouble is, it might well also be the worst. When...
Download Festival: downpours can't dampen spirits at me...
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The Light in the Piazza, RFH review - Broadway musical looks...
A Broadway show as melodically haunting and...
Years and Years, Series Finale, BBC One review - soggy endin...
As Russell T Davies’s doomsday odyssey reached its endgame...
Soweto Kinch, Jazz Cafe review - instant karma in Camden
Camden’s Jazz Cafe reverberated to the sounds of a 50-year-old spiritual...
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture...
Under a turbulent sky racked with jagged clouds suggesting bolts of lightning, pale figures hurl themselves into a spitting expanse of water....
Citysong, Soho Theatre review - big writing, big heart
Irish playwright Dylan Coburn Gray's new play won...
Milton Nascimento, Barbican review – besotted audience hails...
Milton Nascimento is 76. Physically, he is quite frail; he had to be helped carefully onto the stage and then up into a high stool for this London...
Ackley Bridge, Series 3, Channel 4 review - we gotta get out...
In the Yorkshire town of Ackley Bridge, education is like...
The Best Plays in London
London is the theatre capital of the world, with more than 50 playhouses offering theatrical entertainment. From the mighty National Theatre to...