John Webster’s sour, bloody tale of brotherly greed and vice has been updated by the playwright Zinnie Harris, who also ...
I knew he was risky, but like fuck it, everyone’s risky.” A young woman (Kelley Jakle) poses for pictures on a deserted ...
There’s a moment in writer/co-director, Jonathan Brown’s, gritty new play, Knife on the Table, that justifies its run almost ...
The nub of both the play and two earlier film adaptations is a knotty plot featuring an innocent woman accused of a crime ...
How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle voters and tiptoe ...
An incendiary play has opened at the Marylebone, the adventurous venue just off Baker Street. Bigger houses were apparently unwilling to stage it, fearing anti-Israeli protests. Their loss.
Just before the five-minute point, a Mellotron’s distinctive string sound is heard. Three minutes earlier, a guitar evokes Robert Fripp’s characteristic shimmer. Uniting these might result in King ...
Londoner Ayman Rostom has been around the block and then some. For some 25 years he’s been a hip hop producer as Dr Zygote, ...
Shostakovich’s gnarly Second Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov’s “not-the-Second” Symphony No. 1 – gave John Wilson and his ...
Theartsdesk on Vinyl is not sent nearly enough contemporary femme-fronted pop music. Partly this is because a lot of it doesn ...
MC5 were the original proto-punkers who led the charge against wafty hippy music in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. They were ...