Dr Diana Carroll

Dr Diana Carroll is a writer, speaker, and reviewer currently based in Adelaide and London. Her work has been published in newspapers and magazines including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Woman's Day and B&T. Writing about the arts is one of her great passions.

Dr Diana Carroll's Latest Articles

Henley Festival Art Exhibition. Image supplied.
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Best new awards & arts prize winners: March 2026

Discover this month's best awards, opportunities and arts prize winners.

Dr Diana Carroll

Mar 13, 2026
Robert Bathurst IN Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Photo: Tom Howard.
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London Art Guide March 2026: best art, theatre and music

This month’s London art guide brings you a play in a bar, an inspiring retrospective of an iconic artist, and…

Dr Diana Carroll

Mar 2, 2026
Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Siff in Shadowlands. Photo: Johann Persson.
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Shadowlands review: a captivating exploration of love and loss

Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Siff absolutely shine in Shadowlands.

Dr Diana Carroll

Feb 23, 2026
Breaking Bach, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a finalist in the Impact Category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. Image: Supplied. Art prizes and awards February 2026.
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Best new awards & arts prize winners: February 2026

This month's awards and prizes celebrate arts innovators, playwrights, photographers and more.

Dr Diana Carroll

Feb 16, 2026
ENO's Così fan tutte plays the London Coliseum in February. Performers emote under a large, heart-shaped arch, through which a large swan-shaped vessel approaches.

London Art Guide, February 2026: best art, theatre and music

This month’s London art guide brings you our top picks of the best art, theatre and music including opera, exhibitions,…

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 31, 2026
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, was the 2025 winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year. An outdoor scen at the Museum, showing a visitor admiring an old fashioned bus.
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Best new awards and arts prizes: January 2026

This month’s awards and prizes celebrate the best in poetry, painting, creative writing and innovative museum practice.

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 19, 2026
London Symphony Orchestra's concert staging of The Makropulos Affair.
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The Makropoulos Affair review: London Symphony Orchestra gives an affecting performance of this little-known operatic gem

German soprano Marlis Petersen was outstanding as the other-worldly Elina Makropoulos.

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 17, 2026
The Long Now. Installation vide. Image: Matt Chung.
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London art guide January 2026: best art, theatre & music

This month's London art guide brings you our top picks of the best art, theatre and music to start off…

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 13, 2026
Romesh Ranganathan as Bill and Sheridan Smith as Susan in Woman in Mind. Photo: Marc Brenner.
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Woman in Mind review: a very British and darkly comic drama

Alan Ayckbourn’s forty-year-old tragicomedy of stifling suburban life, Woman in Mind, doesn’t quite survive the transition to today.

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 8, 2026
The Rivals. Photo: Ellie Kurttz.
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The Rivals review: warm, stylish and immensely enjoyable

Patricia Hodge and Robert Bathurst lead a polished ensemble in this delightful off-West-End production of The Rivals.

Dr Diana Carroll

Jan 6, 2026
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