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Listed: Essential BBC PromsTuesday, 26 May 2015Hottest tickets for seats at the Proms have probably all gone already. Yet the beauty of it is that... Read more... |
Listed: The Very Best of 2015Thursday, 01 January 2015Don't on any account miss the events in the selection you're about to read. Our rival outlets are... Read more... |
Listed: The Facts about Factual TV in 2014Saturday, 27 December 2014It is a truism that the great tradition of documentary filmmaking has long since migrated to the... Read more... |
Listed: Science Fiction in VideogamesTuesday, 25 November 2014By far the majority of interactive art, entertainment and fiction – videogames for want of a better... Read more... |
Listed: The World and Beyond - London Jazz Festival 2014Tuesday, 11 November 2014Jazz. Is there any other term in contemporary culture so widely recognised, yet so difficult to... Read more... |
Listed: Wall Flowers - The Best of BerlinSaturday, 08 November 2014It has long since become a cliché that the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination is implanted on... Read more... |
Listed: theartsdesk's Greatest HitsTuesday, 09 September 2014To celebrate our fifth birthday, we offer you an insight into what you, the readers, have devoured... Read more... |
Listed: The laughter and tears of Robin WilliamsTuesday, 12 August 2014Robin Williams, who has died at the age of 63, was a very American comedian. The flow of invention... Read more... |
Listed: 10 Mozart Operas You've Never Heard (of)Saturday, 28 June 2014Mozart operas – we’ve all been there, whistled the arias, untangled the love triangles (quadrants/... Read more... |
Listed: The Best UK Summer Music Festivals For FamiliesSaturday, 14 June 2014While you give your tent an airing in anticipation of festival season, think about the imaginative... Read more... |
Listed: The World Cup's Most Beautiful GoalsSaturday, 07 June 2014Is football a thing of beauty? It depends who you ask. If you’re that way inclined, it is possible... Read more... |
Listed: 10 Great Trouser RolesThursday, 08 May 2014It's the genre of gender-bending and cross-dressing, where women play warriors and men sing like... Read more... |
Listed: Unmissable BBC PromsSunday, 27 April 2014The first bit of the annual Proms ritual is now out of the way, with the publication of the... Read more... |
Listed: Top 10 Children's Theatre ShowsSaturday, 12 April 2014If you are seeking to keep small children entertained this Easter, there's no need to sit around... Read more... |
Listed: Hauschka's Abandoned CitiesMonday, 07 April 2014Hauschka is a musician and composer from Düsseldorf, performing in what has been dubbed a "post-... Read more... |
Listed: Celebrating Dylan ThomasSunday, 30 March 2014It won’t have escaped the attention of anyone with an ear for poetry that Dylan Thomas turns 100... Read more... |
Listed: The Vikings - Life and LegendTuesday, 04 March 2014The British Museum's exhibition The Vikings: Life and Legend promises to redefine the Viking age... Read more... |
Listed: 10 American paintings before PollockSunday, 16 February 2014The National Gallery recently embarked on a first: they acquired their first American painting. Men... Read more... |
Listed: The Best Uncredited CameosSaturday, 18 January 2014There are no awards, nor nominations. On the plus side there are no publicity chores either. And... Read more... |
Listed: The 12 Derangements of ChristmasSunday, 22 December 2013We at The Arts Desk are as fond as the next person of swans-a-swimming, partridges and pear-trees,... Read more... |
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This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in...
The Gold, Series 2, BBC One review - back on the trail of th...
The first series of The Gold in 2023 was received rapturously, though apparently it only told one half of the story of the 1983 Brink’s-...
Eva Quartet, St Cyprian's review - polyphonic bliss
Eva Quartet are four outstanding Bulgarian voices of polyphonic purity and depth, drawn from the legendary choir Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, who...
Album: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History
In those seemingly long-ago times of loneliness and lockdown, artists around the world invited us into their kitchens and living rooms as they...
Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Bush Theatre review - flowering talent...
The Bush Theatre is becoming a garden...
Così fan tutte, Nevill Holt Festival/Opera North review - re...
Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should fill, their...
Music Reissues Weekly: Gather In The Mushrooms
“Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint Etienne...
Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story review - the ways of a man...
If you’re horse mad or merely an every-four-years Olympic fan, you already know Nick Skelton’s story. Equestrianism can favour mature competitors...