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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 ...
Turnstile’s NEVER ENOUGH is a vibrant, shape-shifting album that proves the Baltimore-based band is fully committed to ...
With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...
I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Garbage’s eighth album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, arrives with weighty intentions and a strong sense of purpose, ...
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 ...