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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...
Album: FaithNYC - Love is a Wish Away
FaithNYC is a vehicle for the singer and songwriter Felice Rosser, an original rooted in reggae...
Perianes, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Payare, Barbica...
When the Venezuelan Rafael Payare was appointed as conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique...
English Teacher, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow review - Merc...
Props designed like flowers were scattered across the QMU stage for English Teacher's performance. A fitting choice given the Leeds group are...
Kemah Bob, Soho Theatre review - Thailand, massage and menta...
Kemah Bob is a regular on television and radio panel shows and well established on the comedy circuit, but Miss Fortunate is her full-...
[title of show], Southwark Playhouse review - two guys and t...
Not just a backstage musical, a backroom musical!
In the...
Album: Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
The word “mahashmashana” – महामशान in Sanskrit – translates as “great burying ground.” Co-opted as the title of Josh Tillman’s sixth album as...
La Serenissima, Wigmore Hall review - an Italian menu to sav...
For 30 years, La Serenissima have re-mapped the landscape of the Italian Baroque repertoire so that its towering figures, notably Vivaldi, no...
Jon Fosse: Morning and Evening review - after thoughts
Jon Fosse talks a lot about thinking. He also thinks – hard – about talking. His prolific and award-winning career in poetry, prose, and drama,...
Roman Rabinovich, Wigmore Hall review - full tone in four st...
Is this the same Roman Rabinovich who drew harp-like delicacy from one of Chopin’s Pleyel pianos, and seeming authenticity from a 1790s grand...