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

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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.

Susannah Fullerton, author of Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them. Image: Susannah Fullerton / Facebook.
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Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them review: a delight for cat lovers

In Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them, Susannah Fullerton explores the relationship between writers and their feline friends.

The Japanese language performance of SIX the Musical. Image: Vaudeville Theatre. London art guide.
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London art guide November 2025: best art, theatre and music

Our London arts guide brings you the best of a busy arts calendar this November.

Katerina Tannenbaum & Eddie Toll in The Wanderers. Image: Mark Senior.
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The Wanderers review: a thoughtful examination of modern American Jewishness

Anna Ziegler's The Wanderers offers an intergenerational look at artistic and religious angst.

Minnie Driver in Every Brilliant Thing. Photo: Danny Kaan.
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Every Brilliant Thing review: Minnie Driver is 'exceptionally good'

Minnie Driver delivers an extraordinary solo performance in the moving play Every Brilliant Thing.

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