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No-one needs to be living in Trump’s USA to be aware that governments never feel that it’s in their interest to prioritise ...
With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...
Turnstile’s NEVER ENOUGH is a vibrant, shape-shifting album that proves the Baltimore-based band is fully committed to ...
Little Simz clearly believes in meeting situations head on. Her sixth full-length album kicks off, in every sense of the ...
It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...
Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th Century playwright is complete. As ...
I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, ...
In 2012, the award-winning American writer Sarah Ruhl met a Yale playwriting student who became a special part of her life.
Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...
I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely ...
It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...
Garbage’s eighth album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, arrives with weighty intentions and a strong sense of purpose, ...