Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’
Chick Corea jazz review: 'panoptic interpretations yielding plenty of complexity'
American jazz fusion pianist and composer Chick Corea took to the stage at the Barbican last month
Read MoreCalvary review – 'An incisive, thrilling and original piece of work'
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
Read MoreMasters of the Airwaves: The Rise and Rise of Underground Radio – review
Masters of the Airwaves tells the story of the birth of black music radio in the UK through interviews with the people who were there
Read MoreGrimm Tales for Young and Old – review
Shoreditch Town Hall hosts Philip Pullman’s adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s classic fables
Read MoreYoko Ono? Oh yes!
Sixties icon Yoko Ono played to a full house at Dalston’s Cafe Oto last month
Read MoreMy Stuff – review
Finnish docudrama is shown at at The Proud Archivist as part of Cinémathèque, a film night of distinctive world cinema
Read MoreBanksy: The Room in the Elephant – review
Arcola theatre hosts play about a homeless man who is evicted from his temporary shelter after a Banksy daub makes it a work of art
Read MoreEldorado – review
How would a Western power deal with being on the receiving end of war asks Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg
Read MoreThe Nine O'Clock Slot – review
Ambitious play highlights the propensity of ‘paupers’ funerals’ in London and the anonymity of those left to die alone
Read MoreHackney Child – review
Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship
Read MoreAmerican Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light – review
Iain Sinclair leaves Hackney for the US on a Beat poetry pilgrimage in his latest book
Read MoreThe White Building/Lea River Park – review
Hackney Wick’s offbeat White Building has all the hallmarks of a sensitive Olympic legacy, but the possible scrapping of the Lea River Park walkway suggests that petty politics not community is the driving force
Read MoreThe Olympic Park – review
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…
Read MoreGoldfrapp – review
St John at Hackney, London
Read MoreFlorence and the Machine – review
Hackney Empire, London
Read MoreKreayshawn – review
The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, London
Read MoreOlympics Aquatic Centre – review
Zaha Hadid’s London 2012 Aquatic Centre hasn’t come cheap at £269m, but it is the Olympics’ most majestic space
Read MoreRadio review: Hackney Podcast
A cacophony of local voices made this haunting fiction of London after The Flood come alive
Read MoreSeagull – review
Arcola, London
Read MoreCine-files: Rio, Dalston, London
This single-screened east London cinema offers a personal touch and period detail but falls down on facilities
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