Heather Neill
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Heather Neill is a critic and theatre writer. She was Arts Editor of The Times Educational Supplement and has contributed features to The Times, Telegraph and theatre programmes. She reviews for The Stage, interviews for theatrevoice.com and has been a judge of the Offies and the Theatre Book Prize and an assessor for NT Connections.
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dr...
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At a time when the powers that sadly be in America are trying their damnedest to erase and rewrite history, the latest release from Rhiannon...
Manhunt, Royal Court review – terrifyingly toxic masculinity...
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what...
St Matthew Passion, Dunedin Consort, Butt, Queen’s Hall, Edi...
I was in Germany last week, and nearly every town I went to was advertising a St Matthew or a St John Passion taking place in the week up to...
Midnight Cowboy, Southwark Playhouse - new musical cannot es...
It seems a bizarre idea. Take a pivotal film in American culture that reset the perception of The Great American Dream at this,...
Music Reissues Weekly: Motor City Is Burning - A Michigan An...
In October 1967, John Lee Hooker released a single titled “The Motor City is Burning.” The song commented on the civil unrest which had taken...
St Matthew Passion, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, St Patr...
When you’ve already come as close as possible to perfection in the greatest masterpiece, why risk a repeat performance with a difference? Because...
Thanks for Having Me, Riverside Studios review - snappily pe...
Keelan Kember’s play Thanks for Having Me may look like a vehicle for Kedar Williams-Stirling (Sex Education, Red Pitch...
Kraggerud, Irish Chamber Orchestra, RIAM Dublin review - sto...
A lot hung upon the delivery last night of Henning Kraggerud, whom I last witnessed leading performances of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and...