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

Top Hat The Musical. Image: Johan Persson.
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Top Hat The Musical review: this stylish revival taps lightly into classic charm

Top Hat delivers good looks and old-school glamour in a sparkling, feel-good production.

Artist Chloe Barnes. Image: Sky Arts.
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Best new awards & arts prize winners: December 2025

This month's awards and prizes celebrate portrait art, emerging musicians, and the best Irish, Scottish and Welsh books of the…

The Red Shoes. Image: Johan Persson.
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The Red Shoes review: Matthew Bourne triumphs at Sadler’s Wells.

This seductive retelling of The Red Shoes is an intoxicating blend of signature movement, stunning design and enthralling storytelling.

John Savournin, Neal Davies, Henna Mun, ENO’s HMS Pinafore 2025 © Craig Fuller.
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HMS Pinafore review: a visually delightful festive confection

It’s all jolly japes aboard ship in the English National Opera’s colourful, comic re-staging of HMS Pinafore.

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London art guide December 2025: best art, theatre and music

This month's London art guide brings you our top picks of the best art, theatre and music – with a…

Detail from the cover of Twelve Paintings by Colin Davidson and Mark Carruthers. Image: Merrion Press.
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Twelve Paintings by Colin Davidson and Mark Carruthers review: conversations on ‘the act of looking’.

Artist Colin Davidson muses on creativity, identity and bearing witness in Twelve Paintings.

Boris Giltburg. Photo: Sasha Gusov.
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Philharmonia Orchestra review: Boris Giltburg plays Prokofiev and Rachmaninov

Giltburg is recognised as a leading interpreter of Rachmaninov with award-winning recordings of the concerti and performances.

Martina Holmberg's portrait Mel has won the 2025 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. Photo: Martina Holmberg.
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Best new awards & arts prize winners: November 2025

This month's awards and prizes celebrate moving portrait photography, vital non-fiction and up-and-coming talent.

Promotoinal image for 'Playing Burton' with actor Matthew Rhys. The moody black & white photo shows Rhys' sharp-cheekboned fair-skinned face emerging from the darkness. He has tousled black hair and wears a black shirt.
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Matthew Rhys returns to the London stage in Playing Burton at The Old Vic

Marking the centenary of Richard Burton’s birth, this production is a fundraiser for the new Welsh National Theatre.

Interior pages of 'Emergence Magazine Vol. #6 – Seasons'. The photograph shows the hefty magazine opened to a page showing four photographs of daffodils and jonquils in bloom, with a blank page opposite on the left.
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Emergence Magazine Vol. #6 – Seasons review: impressive arts and ecology magazine

'Emergence' offers a quiet contemplation of the Earth’s cycle of rebirth, life, decay, and death.

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