Natalia Franklin Pierce

Articles By Natalia Franklin Pierce

Monday, 04 December 2023 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Plays about the Windrush Generation are no longer a rarity, but it’s still unusual for revivals of black British classics to get the full...

The score is effective, and rewarding to perform, but derivative. The libretto uses every cliché, or truism, about save-the-planet youth activism...

“German space rock group is already shooting up the charts with their debut US LP. One of few continental groups able to make this musical mode...

To watch Mahan Esfahani play the harpsichord is to watch a philosopher at work. While...

Brighton metallers Architects have weathered various tribulations in their almost 20-year career. Formed by twins Dan and Tom Searle, after...

There’s something exhilarating about seeing bands right at the very, very dawn of their careers. Will they be headlining the Houston Astrodome in...

A cello concerto received its UK premiere in Manchester last night – almost 100 years after it was written. It’s by Maria Herz, a German-Jewish...

They stopped making the BBC’s original Bergerac in 1991, so you can hardly complain that this reboot is premature. John Nettles became...

The war in Gaza has been going since 7 October 2023 – that’s about 15 months. But it’s strangely absent from British stages...