Steve O'Rourke
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Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch, BBCSO, Bychkov, Barbican revie...
“Hieronymus!” bellowed David Wilson Johnson from the Barbican Hall’s circle on Saturday evening. “Hieronymus Bosch!” Commissioned by Dutch radio...
Cyrano de Bergerac, Playhouse Theatre review - James McAvoy...
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC's His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of...
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Semyon Bychkov in Prague
It's a very big deal for musical Prague: Czechia's symphonic...
Elizabeth Is Missing, BBC One review - a tender but tough-mi...
In films, as in life, unreliable narrators are not hard to find. But there is something remarkable about the unreliable narrator of Elizabeth...
Fairview, Young Vic review - questioning the assumptions of...
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview comes to...
The Cave review - heroic Syrian hospital workers
War crimes are war crimes, irrespective of the victims’...
Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Wickham, K...
At this time of year the musical world – and particularly the...
CD: Los Lobos - LLegó Navidad
In a season awash with limp carols, dodgy glam-rock and schmaltzy jazz, all credit to Los Lobos for coming up...
Lucy in the Sky review - Portman falls from orbit
Best-known for his TV series Legion and Fargo, director Noah Hawley makes...