Jessica Payn
Articles By Jessica Payn
latest in today
Groundhog Day, Old Vic review - Tim Minchin’s musical return...
Groundhog Day, appropriately, is back where it started. The hit film about a TV weatherman’s endlessly reiterated day in small...
Album: Yusuf/Cat Stevens - King of a Land
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ latest combines his apparently effortless immediacy at acoustic guitar songwriting with an orchestrated opulence that sometimes...
Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an e...
This frothy bio-fantasy about the 18th century composer...
War Pony review - life on the Pine Ridge reservation in sout...
Set on the lands of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota, War...
Princess Ida, OAE, Wilson, QEH review - musical brilliance u...
Sullivan’s score for his eighth collaboration with Gilbert is vintage work, mostly equal to the splendid sentinels flanking it, Iolanthe...
Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery review - living in a materia...
It is fitting that I watch Otobong Nkanga’s performance on a stranger’s smartphone screen. Solid Maneuvers, 2015, is about...
Album: McFly - Power to Play
When McFly returned to our loudspeakers in the summer of 2020 with Young Dumb Thrills, the record marked their first in a decade. The...
Bezuidenhout, The English Concert, St Martin-in-the-Fields r...
An evening of Mozart favourites in a landmark church on a sunny evening: that might suggest a perfect recipe for gently soporific tourist...
Patriots, Noël Coward Theatre review - crash-bang brilliant...
With apocalyptic floods pouring through the Kakhovka dam, and millions of Ukrainians displaced or bereaved, it doesn’t feel decent to be laughing...