★★★★ THE BEAST IN ME @netflix.com - Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys star in addictively twisty mystery of power, corruption and lies on Long Island - review by Adam Sweeting www.theartsdesk.com/tv/beast-me-...

THE ROLLING STONES - BLACK & BLUE turns 50 with a new reissue - one of their best-sounding classic LPs comes with live sets, rare film and dodgy studio jams, says @timcumming.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ro...

★★★★ Blooming versatility: Watts, Fantasia Orchestra, Fetherstonhaugh, Smith Square Hall review by @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★ Nostalgic fun: An Evening With The Fast Show, London Palladium Veronica Lee reviews a reunion of sketch show's creators www.theartsdesk.com/comedy/eveni...

★★★★★ The Ice Tower: a chilling meta fairy tale @grahamfuller.bsky.social reviews Lucile Hadžihalilović's exquisite fantasy about an orphan girl infatuated with a movie diva www.theartsdesk.com/film/ice-tow...

★★★★★Luscious slices of reality: Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life, Courtauld Gallery SArah Kent reviews www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

★★★★ Live at the EFG London Jazz Festival, various venues: jazz meets world music at these four contrasting nights across the capital’s annual jazz celebration writes @timcumming.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/li...

★★★★ All My Sons, Wyndham's Theatre is a ruthless reappraisal of early Arthur Miller writes Matt Wolf www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/all-...

★★★★★ Endless pleasure, endless love: best of all possible casts fill every moment of Christopher Alden’s Handel cornucopia Partenope, English National Opera @davidnice.bsky.social reviews www.theartsdesk.com/opera/parten...

Ancient cabins, powdered faces and joined-up dots: this week's classical CD round up offers rarely-heard repertoire for two pianos, plus baroque transcriptions and guitar duets @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social and Sebastian Scotney review www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★Meditations on mortality and music: Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen star in End, National Theatre @sierz.bsky.social reviews www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/end-...

★★★★ Rebirth: London City Ballet: a pocket-sized company fulfilling its big ambitions writes Helen Hawkins www.theartsdesk.com/dance/rebirt...

★★★★ Thin Lizzy, 74-75 - Night Life / Fighting: Expanding the parameters of Rock - John Carvill reviews a seven CD set tracking Thin Lizzy's evolution from good to great www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

★★★★★ Cabaret Voltaire revisit their glorious 80s purple patch,XOYO, Birmingham: Guy Oddy reviews www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ca...

★★★★ Claire-Louise Bennett’s virtuosic prose returns to ponder intimacy, but treads some old ground writes Claudia Bull on Big Kiss, Bye-Bye @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/claire...

★★★★Thoughtful micro-budget British sci-fi, deservedly revived on blu-ray: @grahamrickson.bsky.social reviews Object Z a children's period piece from ITV www.theartsdesk.com/tv/blu-ray-o...

★★★★ The woes of hitting middle age: Tim Key excels at storytelling that playfully wrongfoots the audience writes Veronica Lee at Wilton's Music Hall www.theartsdesk.com/comedy/tim-k...

★★★★ 'Goering is like a virus looking for a host, and the trial offers him the chance to infect the world': history's worst criminals go on trial in James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg, with Russell Crowe as Goering, Justine Elias reviews www.theartsdesk.com/film/nurembe...

★★★ Powerfully authentic, but not fully satisfying: After Sunday, Bush Theatre a new play about cooking therapy in a secure hospital is an uncertain mix of comedy and cruelty writes @sierz.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/afte...

★★★★ Drama and drive in Mozart's great unfinished mass: La Nuova Musica, Bates, St Martin-in-the-Fields, review by @boydtonkin.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★ A quiet resistance - but perhaps too quite says Sarah Kent, reviewing Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey, Whitechapel Gallery www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

Riga Music Week review - blues-infused shoegazing, full-force folk, synth-pop thrills and more in Latvia’s capital @kierontyler.bsky.social reports www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ri...

★★★The Bug vs Ghost Dub's 'Implosion' collaboration is atmospheric and sinister says Guy Oddy www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/bu...

★★★ Lavish adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian adventure The Hunger Games, Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre asks the how and the why writes Demetrios Matheiou www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/hung...

★★★★★ Simply stunning: Heggie’s Death Row opera at English National Opera has a superb cast led by Christine Rice and Michael Mayes, @davidnice.bsky.social reviews Dead Man Walking www.theartsdesk.com/opera/dead-m...

Toby Jones on 'Mr Burton' and 'Mr Bates Versus the Post Office': the formidable character actor talks to Pamela Jahn about mentorship, masculinity, and the importance of 'self-persuasion' www.theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

★★★★ Intimate gems: Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition of one of Denmark's most celebrated artists is a revelation as well as a delight says Sarah Kent, at Anna Ancher: Painting Light www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

★★★★ Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate celebrate Arvo Part's 90th birthday with Evelin Seppar an intriguing point of comparison writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★ 'Any given song is great', but Celeste's 'Woman of Faces' is short on variety writes @joemuggs.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ce...

'Music is like the air we breathe, like oxygen' RIP JIMMY CLIFF #JimmyCliff - Remembering one of #reggae's breakout stars, in a full 2012 Q&A from Thomas H Green www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

Mélanie Pain has no need to be a guest voice on records by anyone else: her new solo album How and Why stands apart from her involvement in Nouvelle Vague. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/me...

Archetypal American harmony pop – but with a distinct freeze-dried character. The two 1968 albums by Eternity’s Children are reissued on vinyl for the first time by High Moon Records. I’ve looked at them today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...

★★★★ Blooming versatility: Watts, Fantasia Orchestra, Fetherstonhaugh, Smith Square Hall review by @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★ Nostalgic fun: An Evening With The Fast Show, London Palladium Veronica Lee reviews a reunion of sketch show's creators www.theartsdesk.com/comedy/eveni...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Julia Ducournau talks to Pamela Jahn about how 'Alpha' rings the changes in body horror www.theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

★★★★★ The Ice Tower: a chilling meta fairy tale @grahamfuller.bsky.social reviews Lucile Hadžihalilović's exquisite fantasy about an orphan girl infatuated with a movie diva www.theartsdesk.com/film/ice-tow...

★★★★ Lairy Gen Z provocateurs blow the roof off writes Guy Oddy: Lambrini Girls, XOYO, Birmingham www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/la...

★★★★★Luscious slices of reality: Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life, Courtauld Gallery SArah Kent reviews www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

★★★★ Live at the EFG London Jazz Festival, various venues: jazz meets world music at these four contrasting nights across the capital’s annual jazz celebration writes @timcumming.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/li...

★★★★The Session Man review - Nicky Hopkins, the musician for all seasons reviewed by Adam Sweeting www.theartsdesk.com/film/session...

★★★ Rufus Wainwright's 'I’m a Stranger Here Myself' - Wainwright Does Weill, in his own inimitable fashion writes @lizthomson1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ru...

★★★★ All My Sons, Wyndham's Theatre is a ruthless reappraisal of early Arthur Miller writes Matt Wolf www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/all-...

★★★★★ Endless pleasure, endless love: best of all possible casts fill every moment of Christopher Alden’s Handel cornucopia Partenope, English National Opera @davidnice.bsky.social reviews www.theartsdesk.com/opera/parten...

Ancient cabins, powdered faces and joined-up dots: this week's classical CD round up offers rarely-heard repertoire for two pianos, plus baroque transcriptions and guitar duets @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social and Sebastian Scotney review www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★Meditations on mortality and music: Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen star in End, National Theatre @sierz.bsky.social reviews www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/end-...

★★★★ Rebirth: London City Ballet: a pocket-sized company fulfilling its big ambitions writes Helen Hawkins www.theartsdesk.com/dance/rebirt...

★★★ Mauritanian desert blues explodes across Noura Mint Seymali’s Yenbett writes @timcumming.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ma...

★★★★ Thin Lizzy, 74-75 - Night Life / Fighting: Expanding the parameters of Rock - John Carvill reviews a seven CD set tracking Thin Lizzy's evolution from good to great www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

★★★ Snarky Puppy’s ‘Somni’ explores the realm of dreams with collaborators Metropole Orkest writes Guy Oddy www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/sn...

★★★★★ Cabaret Voltaire revisit their glorious 80s purple patch,XOYO, Birmingham: Guy Oddy reviews www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ca...