Owen Richards
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Titus Andronicus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - notorious...
If All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida have earned the sobriquet "‘problem plays...
The Whale review - Brendan Fraser stars in a fat suit
Yes, Brendan Fraser gives a fine, Oscar-nominated performance as a...
Philharmonia, Hrůša, RFH review - total brilliance in Bartók...
Salome was not to get her head on a silver platter: Jennifer Davis, due to sing the bloody final scene of Strauss’s opera, had been experiencing...
2:22 A Ghost Story, Lyric Theatre review - Cheryl makes an i...
The set of 2:22 A Ghost Story is open to the auditorium when we arrive and locates us at once in gentrification-land. We are...
EO review - lyrical tale of a donkey's odyssey
It’s been a good year for donkeys at the cinema. Not only did Martin McDonagh make a surprise star out of Jenny the miniature donkey in The...
Album: Kelela - Raven
Kelela, the DC-born artist, has been fusing R&B with experimental electronics since her 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me...
Tannhäuser, Royal Opera review - true goodness triumphs in t...
It’s always a disappointment when the Venusberg orgy Wagner added in 1861 to his original, 1845 Tannhäuser to suit Parisian tastes gives...
Northern Winter Beat 2023 review - Panda Bear, Sonic Boom an...
It’s the sound of the sun. Panda Bear – born Noah Lennox – is singing in a voice with the purity and warmth of Brian Wilson. Beside him, Sonic...
You Resemble Me review - complex portrait of a troubled youn...
You Resemble Me is the very definition of a passion project, and all the better for it. First-time director Dina Amer was a...
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Harold Pinter Theatre re...
Culture which arrives from the margins to the mainstream is a classic phenomenon. In the case of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons...