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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk…
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Bergen International Festival, the largest curated festival for music and performing …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:33AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Our writers pick their favourites in prospectLet's be honest, this is the least interesting Proms season on paper for years, at least in terms of adventurous repertoire choices, following on…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:12AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
In association with The Hospital Club's h.Club 100 Awards, we're looking for the best cultural writers, bloggers and vloggersAre you a young blogger, vlogger or writer in the field…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:06AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Enter our competition to win a spectacular weekend at England's finest arts festival Brighton Festival is the UK’s leading annual celebration of the arts, with events taking place in …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
BEST PLAYS IN LONDON From All's Well to Schiller's thriller: theartsdesk's stage tipsFrom the Ides of March to modern monologues: theartsdesk's stage tipsLondon is the theatre capital o…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:00PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
THE BEST MUSICALS IN LONDON From His Bobness to Jamie, we recommend the top showsWe recommend the top shows in musical theatreAladdin, Prince Edward Theatre ★★★ Disney's latest blockb…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:00PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
100 YEARS ON... LISTED: SUFFRAGETTES PORTRAYED How have the pioneering days of women's emancipation fared in works of art?From theartsdesk archive: How have the pioneering days of women'…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:25PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
News from The Hospital Club's annual awards for the creative industries, plus theartsdesk's Young Reviewer of the Year At a festive ceremony on Tuesday night at The Hospital Club i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Announcing the shortlist of our critics' competition, with extracts from each entryIn July we launched a competition in association with The Hospital Club to unearth talented young crit…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:04AMThursday, August 10, 2017
theartsdesk recommends the shows to catch this AugustWondering what on earth to choose between as you tramp the streets of the festival. These are our highlights so far.STANDUPTiff Stevenson…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AMFriday, July 14, 2017
In association with The Hospital Club's h.Club 100 Awards, we're launching a new competition to find a brilliant young criticThe Hospital Club’s annual h.Club100 awards celebrate…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:42PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Joseph Houston and William Whelton found a storage space on Gumtree and turned it into a musical theatre. Here's howThe Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester is an irresistible example of the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:33AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Announcing a new partnership with the most creative club in LondonThe Arts Desk is delighted to announce a new partnership with The Hospital Club in Covent Garden. There are plenty of privat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:12AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
We recommend the top shows in musical theatreTHE BEST MUSICALS IN LONDON Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre ★★★ Disney's latest blockbuster film-turned-stage show remains airborne – just
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:18AMThursday, January 14, 2016
When sorrows come they come not in single spies. It is a bad week to be 69. Hard on the heels of David Bowie's death from cancer comes Alan Rickman's. He was an actor who radiated a sinful a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:21PMSunday, October 11, 2015
In the week of the release of Suffragette, Sarah Gavron’s feature about the insurgent foot soldiers of the women’s movement, it’s both astonishing and depressingly unsurprising to disc…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:40AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Once upon a time... Storytelling is an integral part of all human cultures, and a central pillar of an enlightened education. Some children get the hang of it quickly – they are, as the ph…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:26AMMonday, June 29, 2015
Of all the art forms, theatre has been most attentive to the story of HIV/AIDS. Leading the way in America there was Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985) and Tony Kushner’s Angels in A…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:51AMMonday, June 15, 2015
Punchdrunk entered the world of theatre through a side door in the basement. The company navigated a strange path through abandoned warehouses on the edge of town, via the odd wrong turns an…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:33AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Basketball doesn’t often stray onto the arts pages. Cinema pays the occasional visit. White Men Can’t Jump starred Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as a pair of slamdunking hustlers. Ho…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMSaturday, December 21, 2013
We at The Arts Desk are as fond as the next person of swans-a-swimming, partridges and pear-trees, not to mention gold rings, but be honest: 'tis already the season to be jolly sick and tire…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:30PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
On 22 November 1963 President John F Kennedy was shot, yoking his name to an ex-marine and sometime defector to the USSR called Lee Harvey Oswald. Everyone old enough to remember is said to …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Revivals of Ibsen’s greatest plays come round thick and fast, and audiences may need an extra incentive to re-enter his world. A new staging of Ghosts supplies just such an inducement: a m…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18AMFriday, July 19, 2013
We’re extremely happy to be able to offer a free download of this track by Philip Ridley, whose new play, Dark Vanilla Jungle, premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of this…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:59AMFriday, November 2, 2012
The National Theatre’s highlights for the winter up until Easter 2013 include Antony Sher in The Captain of Köpenick, Marianne Elliott's revival of Simon Stephens’ Port, the transfer fo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:38AMFriday, July 20, 2012
THE BESTA Doll's House, Young Vic **** A pretty period setting yields a perennially contemporary tragedy. Until 4 Augread more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:23AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Even in this year of years, it has to be accepted that not everyone has a soft spot for sport. Anyone answering to that description may well attempt to sprint, jump or pedal away from the co…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMMonday, June 25, 2012
The Arts Desk has been voted Specialist Journalism Site of 2012 at the Online Media Awards. In a celebratory dinner at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium recognising "the best and boldest of online …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:44AMMonday, April 2, 2012
The Edinburgh International Festival runs this year from 9 August to 2 September, with a highly international look. 47 nations - around a third of the world's countries - are represented in …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMThursday, March 15, 2012
In how many categories is it possible for a show to be nominated for this year's Olivier Awards? Answer: 10. The producers of Matilda the Musical will be smiling from ear to ear after the no…
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