Steve O'Rourke
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American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, BBC...
The multi-costumed Lucy Worsley is television marmite, loved or loathed...
Murrihy, Britten Sinfonia, Elder, Barbican review – a countr...
As the January chill began to bite around the Barbican, Sir...
Beautiful Boy review - well-acted but a slog
The tortuous road to addiction and back again – or maybe not – makes for a faintly tedious experience in...
The Unreturning, Theatre Royal Stratford East review - hymn...
Nadia Fall is a good thing. Her appointment as the artistic director of this venue, with her first season having begun in September last year, has...
'Bringing things to life is what opera is all about...
I’m here in Leeds at the end of five weeks of quite intense rehearsals for...
CD: Morrissey and Marshall - And So It Began Again... Acoust...
Well this is a treat. Darren Morrissey and Greg Marshall, London-based Dubliners who began their musical life in the fair city as front men of...
Winterreise, Gerhaher, Huber, Wigmore Hall review - wintry b...
As Wigmore Hall audiences really ought to know, silence can be golden. Especially at the close of Schubert’s Winterreise, as the uncanny...
The Daughter-in-Law, Arcola Theatre review - searing simplic...
There’s a stark power to Jack Gamble’s production of DH...
Magnum P.I., Sky 1 review - slick and formulaic remake of Ei...
Perhaps inspired by the success of the revived Hawaii Five-O, CBS and Universal have gone back to the...
CD: William Tyler - Goes West
Its Dali-esque sleeve image captures Goes West perfectly. Over its 10 instrumental tracks, the music drifts inwards from outside as if...