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★★★★ A solid tribute to a legendary history: Mobb Deep are gracing our sound systems once again with unreleased vocals and brand new music writes Ibi Keita on new album Infinite theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Album: Mobb Deep - Infinite

Eight years after Prodigy’s untimely passing, Mobb Deep are gracing our sound systems once again with unreleased vocals and brand new music. With production from both Havoc, Mobb Deep’s second half, a...

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★★★★ A solid tribute to a legendary history: Mobb Deep are gracing our sound systems once again with unreleased vocals and brand new music writes Ibi Keita on new album Infinite theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Album: Mobb Deep - Infinite

Eight years after Prodigy’s untimely passing, Mobb Deep are gracing our sound systems once again with unreleased vocals and brand new music. With production from both Havoc, Mobb Deep’s second half, a...

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★ 'The tone veers about vertiginously': raucous and carnivalesque, but also ugly and incomprehensible - @garynaylor85.bsky.social delivers a damning verdict on Troilus and Cressida, Globe Theatre - a 'problem play' with added problems he writes theartsdesk.com/theatre/troi...

Troilus and Cressida, Globe Theatre review - a 'problem play' with added problems

The Globe’s authenticity is its USP, so don’t expect the air-conditioning, the plush seats and the expectant hush of the National Theatre some 20 minutes walk away along the Thames. There’s not quite ...

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★★★★ Smooth and soulful standards from an old pro: Boz Scaggs' latest album Detour is exemplary writes Mark Kidel theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Album: Boz Scaggs - Detour

Boz Scaggs rarely does a less than wonderful album. His latest is an exemplary collection of smooth and soulful standard and a few other choice items including a song he wrote for his first album Boz ...

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★★★★ Taking stock of Tourette’s: John Davidson's story gets a pointed and affecting treatment in Kirk Jones's film I Swear finds James Saynor theartsdesk.com/film/i-swear...

I Swear review - taking stock of Tourette's

People sometimes go to the movies for the violence and maybe even for the sex. Until recently they didn’t particularly buy a ticket for the bad language, but lately, British cinema has been making thi...

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London Film Festival 2025: Daniel Craig investigates, Jodie Foster speaks French and Colin Farrell has a gambling habit in a jamboree of crime, punishment, pop stars and shrinks, Adam Sweeting reviews theartsdesk.com/film/london-...

London Film Festival 2025 - crime, punishment, pop stars and shrinks

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★★ Netflix star, Joe Locke, is the selling point of a production that needs one writes @garynaylor85.bsky.social on Clarkston, Trafalgar Theatre, featuring two lads on a road to nowhere theartsdesk.com/theatre/clar...

Clarkston, Trafalgar Theatre review - two lads on a road to nowhere

If you’re a Gen Zer, you’ve probably heard of Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. I’m pretty sure ATG’s Gen Xers in the back office had also heard of him, as tickets are priced up to and beyond £100 for a 100 m...

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★★★ Hopes for Niamh O’Sullivan only partly fulfilled, though much good singing throughout finds @davidnice.bsky.social reviewing Carmen, English National Opera www.theartsdesk.com/opera/carmen...

Carmen, English National Opera review - not quite dangerous

“Safe” is a word used far too often in ENO’s bizarre new version of a programme, full of uncredited articles, at least two of which look as if they’re AI generated. Everything intimacy director Haruko...

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★★★ Spirited staging but short on scares: Ghost Stories, Peacock Theatre is let down by its unsuitable venue finds @garynaylor85.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/theatre/ghos...

Ghost Stories, Peacock Theatre review - spirited staging but short on scares

In the framing device, a professor (Jonathan Guy Lewis) stands at a lectern and asks if anyone has had a supernatural experience. Somewhat to my suprise, up went my hand. In the cold winter of 1981/82...

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★★★ Emily A. Sprague realises a Japanese dream on 'Cloud Time': @joemuggs.bsky.social reviews a set of live improvisations that drift in and out of real beauty theartsdesk.com/new-music/em...

Emily A. Sprague realises a Japanese dream on 'Cloud Time'

The history of experimental musicians from Europe and North America adopting Japanese aesthetics is … patchy. It got especially dodgy in the 1990s when every other electronica dork started flinging ra...

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#HollieCook SHY GIRL - Tropical-tinted downtempo pop that's likeable if uneventful - it isn't heavyweight, but it has a summery reggae lilt, says Thomas H Green theartsdesk.com/new-music/ho...

Hollie Cook's 'Shy Girl' isn't heavyweight but has a summery reggae lilt

Hollie Cook was in the final line-up of post-punk groundbreakers The Slits. When singer Ari Up died in 2010 and the group ended, there was a flurry of interest in Cook for a while. She supported The S...

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'Much more fun than a Classical biopera might sound' ★★★★ GIUSTINO #LinburyTheatre @royaloperahouse.bsky.social - Gods, mortals and monsters do battle in #Handel's charming drama - @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social enjoys a stylish account of a slight opera theartsdesk.com/opera/giusti...

Giustino, Linbury Theatre review - a stylish account of a slight opera

It’s a good year to be Handel-lover. No sooner have summer runs of Rodelinda (Garsington) and Saul (Glyndebourne) finished than we’re into autumn and Opera North’s Susanna, Giustino at the Royal Opera...

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★★★★ R:EVOLUTON #EnglishNationalBallet @sadlerswells.bsky.social - #ENB set the bar high with this mixed bill, but they meet its challenges thrillingly - Jenny Gilbert relishes a vibrant survey of ballet in four acts theartsdesk.com/dance/revolu...

R:Evolution, English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells review - a vibrant survey of ballet in four acts

As the new season opens, confidence is high at ENB, just as it should be given the roaring success of recent programmes featuring the latest work of iconoclast William Forsythe. His classical steps se...

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'This was magic beyond belief, beyond words' ★★★★★ TRIO DA KALI #MiltonCourt @barbicancentre.bsky.social - With #Mali masters making the ancient new, three master musicians from Bamako in transcendent mood, says Mark Kidel theartsdesk.com/new-music/tr...

Trio da Kali, Milton Court review - Mali masters make the ancient new

Trio da Kali are griots, and their traditional role in West Africa is to connect: to evoke the glories of the past and to bring communities together through mediation and spiritual admonition. Their r...

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'Bigelow is a consummate action director, and loves the hardware and martial professionalism' ★★★★ A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - #KathrynBigelow's cautionary tale sets the nuclear clock ticking again - review by Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/film/house-d...

A House of Dynamite review - the final countdown

Armageddon is here again, as Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years examines the minutes before a nuclear missile hits Chicago from multiple perspectives, finding no hope anywhere.

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Q&A: #IdrisElba on playing a US President faced with a missile crisis in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - The star talks about Presidential decision-making when millions of lives are imperilled, interview with Pamela Jahn @netflix.com theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

theartsdesk Q&A: Idris Elba on playing a US President faced with a missile crisis in 'A House of Dynamite'

Idris Elba has only just appeared as the British Prime Minister in the action comedy Heads of State (2025) – now he's portraying the American President in Kathryn Bigelow's tense political thriller A ...

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★★★★ #EchoVocalEnsemble #SarahLatto @unionchapeluk.bsky.social - An eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance, with beautiful singing at the heart of an imaginative and stylistically varied concert - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Echo Vocal Ensemble, Latto, Union Chapel review - eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance

Echo Vocal Ensemble have their genesis in Genesis. Sarah Latto’s group were initially formed by a cohort of the Genesis Sixteen young artists’ programme – and she has turned them into one of the most ...

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#HollieCook SHY GIRL - Tropical-tinted downtempo pop that's likeable if uneventful - it isn't heavyweight, but it has a summery reggae lilt, says Thomas H Green theartsdesk.com/new-music/ho...

Hollie Cook's 'Shy Girl' isn't heavyweight but has a summery reggae lilt

Hollie Cook was in the final line-up of post-punk groundbreakers The Slits. When singer Ari Up died in 2010 and the group ended, there was a flurry of interest in Cook for a while. She supported The S...

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★★★★ R:EVOLUTON #EnglishNationalBallet @sadlerswells.bsky.social - #ENB set the bar high with this mixed bill, but they meet its challenges thrillingly - Jenny Gilbert relishes a vibrant survey of ballet in four acts theartsdesk.com/dance/revolu...

R:Evolution, English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells review - a vibrant survey of ballet in four acts

As the new season opens, confidence is high at ENB, just as it should be given the roaring success of recent programmes featuring the latest work of iconoclast William Forsythe. His classical steps se...

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'This was magic beyond belief, beyond words' ★★★★★ TRIO DA KALI #MiltonCourt @barbicancentre.bsky.social - With #Mali masters making the ancient new, three master musicians from Bamako in transcendent mood, says Mark Kidel theartsdesk.com/new-music/tr...

Trio da Kali, Milton Court review - Mali masters make the ancient new

Trio da Kali are griots, and their traditional role in West Africa is to connect: to evoke the glories of the past and to bring communities together through mediation and spiritual admonition. Their r...

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'Bigelow is a consummate action director, and loves the hardware and martial professionalism' ★★★★ A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - #KathrynBigelow's cautionary tale sets the nuclear clock ticking again - review by Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/film/house-d...

A House of Dynamite review - the final countdown

Armageddon is here again, as Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years examines the minutes before a nuclear missile hits Chicago from multiple perspectives, finding no hope anywhere.

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Q&A: #IdrisElba on playing a US President faced with a missile crisis in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - The star talks about Presidential decision-making when millions of lives are imperilled, interview with Pamela Jahn @netflix.com theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

theartsdesk Q&A: Idris Elba on playing a US President faced with a missile crisis in 'A House of Dynamite'

Idris Elba has only just appeared as the British Prime Minister in the action comedy Heads of State (2025) – now he's portraying the American President in Kathryn Bigelow's tense political thriller A ...

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★★★★ #EchoVocalEnsemble #SarahLatto @unionchapeluk.bsky.social - An eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance, with beautiful singing at the heart of an imaginative and stylistically varied concert - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Echo Vocal Ensemble, Latto, Union Chapel review - eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance

Echo Vocal Ensemble have their genesis in Genesis. Sarah Latto’s group were initially formed by a cohort of the Genesis Sixteen young artists’ programme – and she has turned them into one of the most ...

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★★★★ SUSANNA @operanorth.bsky.social - Dance and signing complement outstanding singing in a story of virtue rewarded, in a hybrid staging of a #Handel oratorio - review @robertbealemcr.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/susann...

Susanna, Opera North review - hybrid staging of a Handel oratorio

Turning Handel oratorio into opera can be a rewarding enterprise. Charles Edwards’ presentation of Joshua, over 15 years ago, for instance, was very effective for Opera North in using projection as we...

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Despite unlovely production, the Eighties/Nineties unit retain rowdy ebullience - POP WILL EAT ITSELF @popwilleatitself.co.uk DELETE EVERYTHING is noisy but patchy, says Thomas H Green theartsdesk.com/new-music/po...

Pop Will Eat Itself's 'Delete Everything' is noisy but patchy

Pop Will Eat Itself deserve to be more celebrated. The Stourbridge outfit were one of the first 1980s bands to realise the potential of smashing punky indie-rockin’ into hip hop and electronic dance.

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