james woodall
Bio
James wrote (1999-2010) for the Financial Times, The Economist and Dance Europe, mainly from Berlin. His books include a biography of Jorge Luis Borges, a study of Rio's music through the life and work of Chico Buarque, and an account of the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He's now a writer back in England.
Articles By James Woodall
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Kanneh-Mason, Terfel, RPO, Philharmonia Chorus, Petrenko, RA...
75 years after Sir Thomas Beecham founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, it’s sobering to reflect that without this one person’s hubris and...
Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy, Sky Arts review –...
Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy lived a life of in-betweens. Modern yet traditional, the son of a builder who went on to become a famous...
Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery review - a glorious celebratio...
The 31 artists in Mixing it Up all live in this country, but a third of them were born elsewhere – in countries including Belgium, China...
Black British Musical Theatre 1900-1950, Wigmore Hall review...
The Wigmore Hall is a bastion of white musicians...
Camp Siegfried, Old Vic review - the banality of evil, brill...
A stealthily powerful play gets the production of its dreams in Camp Siegfried, which marks a high-profile UK presence for the American...
Ben Howard, Royal Festival Hall review - authentic and reass...
Ben Howard is a man of very few words, unless of course, there’s a...
Esther Yoo, Yekwon Sunwoo, Wigmore Hall review - Korean duo...
The duo partnership between violinist Esther Yoo and...
The Lodger, Coronet Theatre review - underdeveloped family d...
The Coronet Theatre is a beautiful space – it’s a listed Victorian building, and the bar’s like something out of a film about Oscar Wilde....
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle review - period piece speak...
More than once, reading Colson Whitehead’s latest novel Harlem Shuffle, the brilliant Josh and Benny Safdie movie Uncut...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Servant
Switching between upstairs and downstairs makes your soul melt, in this first of three Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter...