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Laura Silverman

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Laura writes about theatre, pop and books for The Times and the Daily Mail. She also contributes to Radio 4.

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Album: boygenius - The Record

Maybe you’ve heard the Native American parable about the two...

Theodora, Arcangelo, Cohen, Barbican review - gloriously dar...

Handel’s Theodora – voluptuously beautiful, warm-to-the-touch music, yoked to a libretto of chilly piety about Christian martyrdom in 4...

Riotsville USA review - a training scheme with a tragic lega...

Sierra Pettengill has made the politest angry film I have seen. It has an incendiary quality that comes precisely from its calm stance towards its...

Album: The Zombies - Different Game

There’s something charmingly unassuming and humble about The Zombies. Nowadays their 1968 second album Odyssey and Oracle regularly...

Tom Dale Company, The Place review - immersive and genre-bus...

With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...

Mansfield Park, RNCM, Manchester review - bringing out the b...

Mansfield Park was written to be a country house opera – that...

Album: A Certain Ratio - 1982

1982 is only A Certain Ratio’s third album this century but it’s one that’s brimming with funky vibes that are more than enough to get...

Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...

How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...

Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...

As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....

Seraphina Madsen: Aurora review - the tarot won’t save us

“There is another world… a way of perceiving that is chaotic and awesome and terrifying,” announces Seraphina Madsen’s cigarillo-smoking,...