Thoughtful reviews of theatre, television and music.

The Collaboration

Playwright/screenwriter Anthony McCarten has written biographical dramatic works of subjects including Winston Churchill (Darkest Hour), Stephen Hawking (The Theory of Everything), Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody) – all of which won…

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Babylon

Babylon...is a lot It would be too easy to call Damien Chazelle’s Babylon a failure of epic proportions. Yes, his fictionalized look at Hollywood traversing the advent of sound is…

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Last Writes

Brendan Fraser gives the performance of a lifetime in The Whale Onstage, Samuel D Hunter’s play The Whale was a work of beauty; in Darren Aronofsky’s new film adaptation, a…

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