Katie Colombus
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Yesterday review - Beatlemania in a parallel universe
The price of fame and the value of artistic truth are among the topics probed in...
Blu-Ray: People on Sunday
Weimar Germany produced some extraordinary cinema – with Pabst, Murnau, Fritz Lang and others creating a language that transformed the...
CD: Mark Mulcahy – The Gus
On his last album, 2017’s acclaimed The Possum in the Driveway, singer songwriter Mark Mulcahy presented a collection that seemed almost...
The Hunt, Almeida Theatre review - tense Scandinoirland dram...
For a while, child abuse has been banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how much pain audiences can be put through....
Present Laughter, Old Vic review - Andrew Scott continues hi...
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the...
Apollo 11 review - an awe-inspiring leap
How could this story be told again? Director Todd Douglas Miller has found a way: strip away narrative and give the audience the purity of...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 50: Depeche Mode, Black Midi, Primal Sc...
So theartsdesk on Vinyl reaches its 50th edition. That’s at least a novels’ worth of words. Maybe two! But we’re not stopping yet...
Ax, Keenlyside, Dover Quartet, Wigmore Hall review – celebra...
Emanuel Ax here celebrated his 70th birthday with an all-...
The Planets, Series Finale, BBC Two review - ice cold on Nep...
As an aid to meditation, Professor Brian Cox’s latest series The Planets (...
Drag SOS, Channel 4 review - absolutely fabulous
According to the Manchester drag collective the Family Gorgeous, “drag should be for everyone.” And on the evidence of Drag SOS (...