Help to give theartsdesk a future! by The Arts Desk

HELP TO GIVE THEARTSDESK A FUTURE! Support our GoFundMe appeal Support our GoFundMe appeal 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, 26 May - 9 June preview - Norway meets America by The Arts Desk

Bergen International Festival - Preview Around 30 digital events to watch from anywhere around the world Bergen International Festival, the largest curated festival for music and performing …

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Pick of the 2018 BBC Proms: women composers first and last, blockbuster Bernstein by The Arts Desk

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…

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Enter theartsdesk / h Club Young Influencer of the Year award by The Arts Desk

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…

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Win a Luxury Weekend for Two to celebrate Brighton Festival! by The Arts Desk

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 ve…

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The Best Plays in London by The Arts Desk

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…

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The Best Musicals in London by The Arts Desk

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…

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Listed: Suffragettes portrayed by The Arts Desk

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'…

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h.Club 100 Awards 2017: The Winners by The Arts Desk

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…

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Young Reviewer of the Year Award: the four finalists are... by The Arts Desk

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…

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Edinburgh Festival and Fringe 2017 reviews round-up by The Arts Desk

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…

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Enter theartsdesk's Young Reviewer of the Year Award by The Arts Desk

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 t…

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h.Club 100 Awards: Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester by The Arts Desk

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…

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theartsdesk at The Hospital Club by The Arts Desk

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…

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The Best Musicals in London by The Arts Desk

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 ai…

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Seven sides of Alan Rickman by The Arts Desk

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…

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Listed: Suffragettes portrayed by The Arts Desk

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 discover t…

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Listed: Precocious Writers by The Arts Desk

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 phra…

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Positive: Introducing a comedy about HIV/AIDS by The Arts Desk

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 Ameri…

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Gallery: The Drowned Man of Punchdrunk by The Arts Desk

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…

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'You must accept that muscle is machinery' by The Arts Desk

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. Hoop D…

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Listed: The 12 Derangements of Christmas by The Arts Desk

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…

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Listed: Who shot/staged/fictionalised JFK? by The Arts Desk

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 …

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PREVIEW - Ghosts by The Arts Desk

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 mou…

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Exclusive download: Ladybird Fist by The Arts Desk

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 m…

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