Sir Mark Elder was back on the scene of past triumphs last night as he returned to the Hallé at the Bridgewater Hall – and he ...

Given that the film industry is a fairly vain business, it follows that every movie is to some extent a vanity project. So it ...

Seven years ago, Soft Cell were about to perform at a sold-out O2, a one-off event they entitled, after 16 years apart, One ...

There was a time when Gilbert & George made provocative pictures that probed the body politic for sore points that others ...

We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts… Cooper, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - a taste ...

We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts… Cooper, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - a taste ...

Working in London, producer Adrian Corker, percussionist George Barton, and Japanese singer Tujiko Noriko came up with a new ...

Mavis Staples, the woman to whom a young Bob Dylan proposed marriage when they met at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and ...

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There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death ...

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Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche ...