Album review Album review Outstanding blend of piano, flute and brass SIMON DUFF reviews a new composition by German composer and pianist Florian Weber that blurs the line between where improvisation ends and composition begins
Album reviews Arts | Monday 17th Feb 2025 Album reviews Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: February 17, 2025
Opinion Friday 14th Feb 2025 Opinion How to rehearse the revolution ANA ISABEL NUNES points to the empowering legacy of Augusto Boal’s Theatre Of The Oppressed
Book Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Book Review Remember Ghassan Kanafani CARLOS MARTINEZ welcomes the publication of the writings of the great Palestinian author, political theorist and spokesman for the PFLP
Book Review Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Book Review (may cause offense) GAVIN O’TOOLE chuckles through a guide to politically correct usage of the literary canon
Book Review Friday 14th Feb 2025 Book Review Africa in its own right ROGER McKENZIE welcomes an important contribution to the history of Africa, telling the story in its own right rather than in relation to Europeans
Book Review Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Book Review Papal skulduggery PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by an account of the long history of Catholic Church’s involvement in espionage
Cinema Friday 14th Feb 2025 Cinema Film round-up: February 13, 2025 The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE review Cottontail, Memoir of a Snail, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Captain America: Brave New World
Film of the Week: Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Film of the Week: No direction home MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense thriller that uses Palestinian characters to explore the predicament of migrants in Europe
Theatre Review Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Theatre Review Rom-communism MARY CONWAY is gripped by a hilarious and erudite new play that dramatises the making of the alliance that defeated fascism
Opera Review Wednesday 12th Feb 2025 Opera Review Figaro magnifico DAVID NICHOLSON welcomes an overdue revival of WNO’s classic production, complete with protests against cuts
Live Music Review Wednesday 12th Feb 2025 Live Music Review Universal jazz kitchen CHRIS SEARLE samples the Kris Davis Trio at the Vortex and recommends highlights from the forthcoming programme