Heather Neill
Bio
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.
Articles By Heather Neill
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Tao of Glass, Royal Exchange, Manchester review - brilliant,...
Who would have thought that a one-narrator show, mainly about...
Elbow and New Order, Lucca Summer Festival review – a meetin...
Thirty-three years ago, at Manchester's Festival of the Tenth Summer, I fumed that New Order had been given top billing over The...
Whitewash, Soho Theatre review - a wild-at-heart linguistic...
This witty street-smart play about a white-skinned...
Django Bates Belovèd Trio, Evan Parker, Wigmore Hall review...
"Genius" is a word to be used sparingly, but Django Bates surely is one. “A musical polymath and prodigiously gifted composer” went the citation...
Don Giovanni, Longborough Festival Opera review - Mozart in...
One of the features of the converted barn that forms the theatre at Longborough is a trio of statues that tops the front pediment of the building...
Bob Dylan and Neil Young, BST Hyde Park review - flat-out br...
It was billed as a moment of musical history: two of the great icons of rock'n'roll sharing a double-headline. A dream ticket. Except, of course,...
Robin Ince, Soho Theatre review - fun among the chaos
How to describe a show that by Robin Ince’s own admission doesn’t have a narrative strand, and for which he has written several pages of notes...
Florence + the Machine, BST Hyde Park review - mastering the...
It’s a rare thing that musicians sound better live than they do on Spotify. But Florence Welch sings a note perfect set – even when jumping up and...
CD: Sabaton – The Great War
It’s been 20 years since Sabaton’s formation in 1999, and the Swedish power...