Jack Barron

Articles By Jack Barron

Wednesday, 12 January 2022 Read more...

I find that my experience of living as a Black man in the UK cannot help but inform the way I approach my work and never more so than with...

In 2019 Russell Howard was all set to celebrate his 20th year in comedy by going on a world tour. Covid put paid to that, so it was with some...

There's a lot of True Crime stuff about, so it's hardly a surprise to see Stephen Dolginoff's 2003 off-Broadway musical back on the London stage,...

Virtual “mixtapes” are not proper albums. Their purpose is often to whet the appetite. Nowhere is this more so than in US...

“It mustn’t be a surface thing. You have to put in the work,” Janet Baker once said. Sandrine Piau’s...

The name of Neville Chamberlain and the term “appeasement” have become indelibly linked, thanks to his efforts to accommodate Adolf Hitler’s...

In my teens, I was one of the budding cinephiles who ran the Film Club at my boarding school. Once a month, we’d rent an arthouse movie. The films...

Having conducted two Discovery programmes with the LSO after being a finalist in the 2016 Donatella Flick competition, London-born...

There was a time when UK pantomime was heavily populated...

History is a prison. Often, you can’t escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in...