Name: Nigel Simons
Dateline: Birmingham, England
Weblog: blogcritics.org
Articles: 10
First Published: Friday, May 25, 2007
Last Published: Saturday, September 20, 2008
Currently listing articles 10-1:
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Theatre Review (Stratford-on-Avon): Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company— Can you believe the hype? Is the hottest Shakespearean ticket in years worth selling a kidney for? Find out now!
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Music Review: Jim Moray - Low Culture— It's folk music, Jim, but not as we know it: Jim Moray delivers his finest album yet with Low Culture.
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Theatre Review (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK): The Merchant of Venice— How do you solve a problem like Shylock? Has Tim Carroll's production ripped the heart from Shakespeare's problem play?
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Music Review: James McMurtry - Just Us Kids— McMurtry's searing portrait of contemporary America mixes political polemic with poignant lyrical narratives in a musical tour de force, essential listening!
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Movie Review: No Country For Old Men— The Coen brothers return with a brutal but thought provoking adaptation of McCarthy's novel that ranks with their finest work.
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Theatre Review (Stratford On Avon, UK): Henry V— After 409 years, Henry V retains the power to expose all aspects of war, and the motives of its brokers.
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Theatre Review (Birmingham, UK): Othello— Shakespeare's expose on how jealousy can break the strongest of men is brilliantly brought to the stage in Birmingham.
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Concert Review: Amy Winehouse, Birmingham National Indoor Arena - 11/14/07— The tragic decline and descent of Britain's most talented R&B singer of the last two decades says much about the music biz.
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Movie Review: This Is England— With This is England Shane Meadows enters the elite of British filmmaking, with a brutally realistic portrait of Thatcher's England.
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Concert Review: Bob Dylan Live in Birmingham, April 17, 2007— Twenty-nine years after getting the rapture on an airfield called Blackbush, a re-visitation reveals "things have changed".
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