Reviews

Dido and Aeneas: La Nuova Musica

Dido and Aeneas: La Nuova Musica

- 9 May 2016

Ann Murray’s Dido once again shows the extraordinary quality of this seasoned performer’s voice, unfailingly...

Charles Linehan Company

- 9 May 2016

In the first part of the programme we watched an interesting film project, unfinished, which...

The Last Resort

The Last Resort

- 9 May 2016

I wanted to love this, I threw myself into it and tried, but to no...

King Lear

King Lear

- 4 May 2016

There is little getting away from the sheer scale, the gory horror and darkness of...

Joe Foster and Sean McLoughlin Edinburgh Preview

- 3 May 2016

Joe Foster opened what we were told was an unplanned work-in-progress, with the kind of...

Poker Night

Poker Night

- 3 May 2016

Welcome to Hell’s casino (or should that be Hotel California?). A cosy den, enveloped in...

Calexico

- 3 May 2016

With the moon from the cover to recent record Edge Of The Sun a fitting...

The Invisible Dot with Adam Buxton

- 3 May 2016

Mae Martin hosted proceedings sweetly and funnily, but she seemed daunted and some jokes didn’t...

Julian Clary; The Joy of Mincing

Julian Clary; The Joy of Mincing

- 27 April 2016

There was Kenneth Williams, then Larry Grayson and then… well then there was Julian Clary...

The Father

The Father

- 27 April 2016

When a play and cast has garnered as many awards as this it is bound...

Newton Falkner

Newton Falkner

- 26 April 2016

On the last day of his new album tour Newton Faulkner treated an audience of...

Richard Herring

- 26 April 2016

Richard Herring began by reflecting on the string of recent celebrity deaths (Prince’s had been...