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Russ Coffey

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Russ directed the award-winning documentary Hookers For Jesus and has also written on serial killer Dennis Nilsen, the Church of Scientology and been a contemporary music critic for the Daily Telegraph and The Times.

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Bellringers, Hampstead Theatre review - mordant comedy about...

As hurricanes rip into the American Gulf states with increasing ferocity, Eastern Europe disappears underwater and even the gentle...

Ludwig, BBC One review - entertaining spin on the brainy det...

The latest incarnation of David Mitchell, TV actor, looks at first sight much like the familar one from Peep Show and Back...

Ellen DeGeneres, Netflix Special review - no mea culpa and f...

Hard to imagine it now, but just a few years ago Ellen DeGeneres was one of America’s biggest daytime TV stars; her chatshow The Ellen...

The Hardacres, Channel 5 review - a fishy tale of upward mob...

Set in Yorkshire in the 1890s, and based on the novels...

Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly...

"Captain" Jack Boyle is a fantasist, a mythmaker, a storyteller. He relishes an audience – usually his sidekick, Joxer. There is a theatricality...

Hardenberger, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall,...

Two splendid pieces of orchestral virtuosity began and finished the second Saturday concert by the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds at the...

Angry and Young, Almeida Theatre review - vigorous and illum...

Why should we not look back in anger? With the Oasis reunion tour in the news recently, the title of John Osborne’s seminal kitchen-sink drama –...

Blond Eckbert, English Touring Opera review - dark deeds afo...

Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert, presented by English Touring Opera...

Songs We Carry, Ana Silvera and Saied Silbak, Kings Place re...

As the Middle East continues to fragment in hate and horror, a tragic unfolding of events with roots reaching back to the middle of the last...

The Marrriage of Figaro, Opera Project, Tobacco Factory, Bri...

The Marriage of Figaro is undoubtedly one of the greatest operas ever written....