Royce Vavrek

Articles By Royce Vavrek

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 Read more...

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

It followed some...

Your response to Barney Norris’s one-...

The latest in Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic radio...

The phenomenal global success of Six began when two young writers decided to give voices to the wives of a...

Is there such a thing as a boundary between pop and alternative any more? The presence of strange characters like Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish and...

It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of...

In a world tainted with racism and homophobia, the ...

Kurosawa’s 1949 thriller probes post-war morality in a Tokyo whose ruins and US occupation mostly remain just out of shot, in a heatwave causing...

What a delight to see an almost full Queen’s Hall for a programme solely of...

It’s been 50 years since the USA bowed to the inevitable and pulled out of Vietnam, in the midst of harrowing scenes of anguish and chaos. Apple’s...