Jasper Rees
Bio
Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins
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k.d.lang, Brighton Dome review - superb revival of classic a...
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CD: The Flaming Lips – King’s Head
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The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre review - Clive...
One of the glories of contemporary London theatre is its revivals of classic American drama. Year after year, audiences are able to revisit and...
The Day We Walked on the Moon, ITV review - it was 50 years...
It was on 16 July 1969 that Apollo 11 lifted off from Florida en route for the Moon, and exactly 50 years later, as we nervously anticipate the...
Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year, B...
Not everybody is on Facebook, yet. So far, Mark Zuckerberg’s social media monolith has only managed to scrape together about 2.3 billion users,...
Equus, Trafalgar Studios review - passionate intensity
When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about “moments of experience” being...
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...
