David Cheal
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Spiral, Series 7, BBC Four review - hard-hitting return of o...
And welcome back to our favourite French cop show – perhaps our favourite...
The Mask of Orpheus, English National Opera review - amorpho...
Advance publicity overstated the case for The Mask of Orpheus. "Iconic"? Only to academics and acolytes, for British audiences haven't...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review - fantasy follow-up fall...
Angelina Jolie is back again with those cut-glass cheekbones and...
Don Pasquale, Royal Opera review - fun and frolics in stylis...
Venetian director Damiano Michieletto’s new...
Glennie, Lubbe, Ticciati, O/Modernt, Kings Place review - a...
Some of the greatest pieces of the string orchestra repertoire are based on pre-existing pieces: the fantasias by Tippett and Vaughan Williams, on...
CD: PJ Harvey - All About Eve (Original Music)
PJ Harvey is not just a consummate rock musician but a multi-...
The deathless Alicia Alonso, in person
The magnificent, controversial Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, who asserted that she would live to 200, died yesterday in Havana, aged nearly 99....
Giri/Haji, BBC Two review - inspired Anglo-Japanese thriller...
Well here’s an interesting one. We’ve been up to our eyebrows in Eurocops for the past few years, but this Anglo-Japanese fusion from...
[Blank], Donmar Warehouse review - strong but dispiriting
Clean Break, the theatre company that specialises in working with women in the criminal justice system, is doing a lot of celebrating. It's the...