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★★★★★ REBELS AND HEROINES #SarahRichmond #JenniferDavis #AoifeOSullivan #RDSConcertHall Dublin - Straight to the operatic heart of the matter: world-class Irish artists celebrate International Women's Day with poise and passion - review @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/opera/rebels...

09.03.2026 11:37 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★ SCREAM 7 - If any franchise is alive to the absurdity of six sequels it’s this one, and the ironic slasher's 30th anniversary finds it timid and tired, says Nick Hasted www.theartsdesk.com/film/scream-...

09.03.2026 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★★ #DavidByrne #SECArmadillo Glasgow - The former #TalkingHeads singer mixed old and new alike in a compelling show - Jonathan Geddes on a theatrical spectacle with fiery energy www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/da...

09.03.2026 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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★ Director #RebeccaZiotowski gives #JodieFoster a free rein in French in A PRIVATE LIFE, but this promising French noir fails to deliver, says Saskia Baron www.theartsdesk.com/film/private...

09.03.2026 09:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ #KatherinePriddy @katherinepriddy.bsky.social's THESE FRIGHTENING MACHINES is an assured third album from the acclaimed singer-songwriter - @timcumming.bsky.social relishes songs of mature reflection www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ka...

09.03.2026 09:17 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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This Can’t Be Today - A Trip Through The US Psychedelic Underground 1977-1988 is a significant examination of an important strand of America’s pre-grunge musical landscape. Out on @cherryredrecords.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...

08.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ #HarryStyles is back with reflection and rhythm on KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. - There's a muted approach that will likely age well, says Ellie Roberts www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ha...

07.03.2026 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Feminist Frankenstein is a radical riot: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale are a scream as lovestruck monsters on the run in The Bride! writes Demetrios Matheou www.theartsdesk.com/film/bride-r...

06.03.2026 13:24 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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★★★★'I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try.' says Brit-Nigerian-Swedish poet Joshua Idehen @joemuggs.bsky.social reviews an album packed with life lessons www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/i-...

06.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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★★★A timely revival of Arthur Miller’s 1994 study of anti-Semitism, marriage and psychology: Broken Glass, Young Vic is an exaggerated version of a modern classic writes @sierz.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/brok...

05.03.2026 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★ In the bleak midwinter: three artists explore global concerns at the Goodwood Art Foundation, West Sussex @criticismism.bsky.social reviews Erasure an exhibition in a time of crisis www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

06.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★★ A charismatic and life-affirming show: CMAT, Barrowland, Glasgow - the 'Dunboyne Diana' mixed great songs with star power and cheeky humour writes Jonathan Geddes www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/cm...

05.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Unrequited love and unexpected jazz: glitzy Rachmaninov and a glittering Zemlinsky ‘Mermaid’ from Ozone, RSNO, Edusei, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Simon Thompson reviews www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

06.03.2026 13:29 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★ Moz rattles the cages once more with 'Make-Up Is a Lie': after a six-year hiatus, Morrissey's still at odds with the world finds disillusioned ex-admirer @kathrynreilly.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mo...

05.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Saskia Vogel brings a darker than dark tale of rural grief to English for the first time: Birgitta Trotzig's 1964 novel Queen @archipelagobooks.bsky.social reviewed by India Lewis www.theartsdesk.com/books/birgit...

05.03.2026 08:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★ Hi-tech and low cunning in the paddock: big beasts and big bucks battle for supremacy in Drive to Survive, Season 8, Netflix, Adam Sweeting reviews www.theartsdesk.com/tv/drive-sur...

05.03.2026 07:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#UKRAINE UNBROKEN @arcolatheatre.bsky.social - Telling snapshots of a population at war, as five playwrights conjure the #Ukrainian experience, from 2014 to today, coordinated and directed by #NicolasKent - review by Helen Hawkins www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/ukra...

04.03.2026 09:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Unrequited love and unexpected jazz: glitzy Rachmaninov and a glittering Zemlinsky ‘Mermaid’ from Ozone, RSNO, Edusei, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Simon Thompson reviews www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

06.03.2026 13:29 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Feminist Frankenstein is a radical riot: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale are a scream as lovestruck monsters on the run in The Bride! writes Demetrios Matheou www.theartsdesk.com/film/bride-r...

06.03.2026 13:24 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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★★★★'I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try.' says Brit-Nigerian-Swedish poet Joshua Idehen @joemuggs.bsky.social reviews an album packed with life lessons www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/i-...

06.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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★★★ In the bleak midwinter: three artists explore global concerns at the Goodwood Art Foundation, West Sussex @criticismism.bsky.social reviews Erasure an exhibition in a time of crisis www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

06.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★★ A charismatic and life-affirming show: CMAT, Barrowland, Glasgow - the 'Dunboyne Diana' mixed great songs with star power and cheeky humour writes Jonathan Geddes www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/cm...

05.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★A timely revival of Arthur Miller’s 1994 study of anti-Semitism, marriage and psychology: Broken Glass, Young Vic is an exaggerated version of a modern classic writes @sierz.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/brok...

05.03.2026 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★ Moz rattles the cages once more with 'Make-Up Is a Lie': after a six-year hiatus, Morrissey's still at odds with the world finds disillusioned ex-admirer @kathrynreilly.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mo...

05.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ Saskia Vogel brings a darker than dark tale of rural grief to English for the first time: Birgitta Trotzig's 1964 novel Queen @archipelagobooks.bsky.social reviewed by India Lewis www.theartsdesk.com/books/birgit...

05.03.2026 08:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★ Hi-tech and low cunning in the paddock: big beasts and big bucks battle for supremacy in Drive to Survive, Season 8, Netflix, Adam Sweeting reviews www.theartsdesk.com/tv/drive-sur...

05.03.2026 07:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#UKRAINE UNBROKEN @arcolatheatre.bsky.social - Telling snapshots of a population at war, as five playwrights conjure the #Ukrainian experience, from 2014 to today, coordinated and directed by #NicolasKent - review by Helen Hawkins www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/ukra...

04.03.2026 09:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE @tate.bsky.social Modern - Self-obsession put to good use in a show that charts the rise and rise of an artist - Sarah Kent characteristically incisive on an artist whose career she has followed from its beginning www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

03.03.2026 19:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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London-based darkwave outfit Lunar & The Deception’s debut album The Somnambulist is for the preternatural lurking within all of us. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/da...

04.03.2026 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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★★★★ #Mahler2 #BBCSSO #DonaldRunnicles #UsherHall Edinburgh - Grand gestures and overarching arguments as a great conductor returns in triumph to crown an orchestra’s anniversary celebrations - review by Simon Thompson www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

03.03.2026 10:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0