Michael Symmons Roberts

Articles By Michael Symmons Roberts

Tuesday, 21 July 2015 Read more...

Write about what you know, they say. And just as her previous show was about imminent motherhood (she performed the show while heavily...

The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra punches well above its weight when it comes to guest artists, and it was a big thing for them to have someone of...

There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from...

Seven years ago, Soft Cell were about to perform at a sold-out O2, a one-off event they entitled, after 16 years apart, One Night, One Final Time...

Niall is unwell. Very unwell. Very, very. There’s a lot going on in his head. He can’t really hold things together. Evidence? Well, he’s lost his...

Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney...

Change, we're often told, is the engine of drama: people end up somewhere markedly different from where they began. So the first thing to be said...

It was guaranteed: string masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Britten and Elgar would be played and conducted at the very highest level by John...