Madonna in Parijs Madonna treedt voor het eerst in haar carrière op in kleine zalen. In Parijs gaf ze zaterdag het eerste optreden van deze ‘Madame X’-tournee. De show biedt een fantastische blik in de soms maffe ziel van de nu 61-jarige zangeres. ★★★★★ 4/5 Gezien: 22/2 Grand Rex, Parijs. Herhaling: t/m 11/3. Madonna die om […]
You might have thought Madonna was not a singer but a professional footballer judging by the talk before she took to the stage at the Palladium last Wednesday night. She’d missed ten out of 93 appearances, and she’d been picking up the kind of niggling injuries — would her knees stand up to the strains […]
The Queen of Pop overcame injury to deliver one of her most memorable shows yet in London. It was a smart move on Madonna’s part to ban the use of mobile phones for her Madame X tour. More than four months since its New York premiere, the show arrived in London to great excitement; its […]
Madonna’s London Palladium residency finally got under way last night with a quote from writer James Baldwin: “Artists are here to disturb the peace”. And the ensuing show was certainly a riot, romping through a dizzying array of genres, set pieces and themes. We’ve come to expect that from Madonna, of course, but the difference […]
★★★★★ 4/5 This pacey, maverick onslaught is a bit like being trapped inside a panic attack – but is also a reminder of Madonna’s sustained influence on pop culture Madonna wants us to wake up. Actually, she wants us to do a lot of things. Come with her to the future. Protect her from her critics. […]
Madonna began her residency at the London Palladium last night but made sure fans made the most of the experience, making them lock phones in a fabric case Madonna made a triumphant return to the stage last night as her Madame X Tour finally arrived in London. For a while, it was touch and go […]
★★★★★ 4/5 London PalladiumFrom a fake riot to a brilliant staging of Frozen, the pop artist is at her most experimental – and intimate Acurious mix of anticipation and trepidation hangs in the air of the London Palladium as the audience dutifully stash their mobile phones in locked pouches and await the arrival of the […]
★★★★★ 4/5 Such drama before Madonna could even take to the stage for her first theatre tour since 1985! Would she arrive drastically late? Would she cancel at the last minute? Tenterhooks all round. Monday was supposed to be the first of a planned 15 nights at the Palladium, cancelled on doctor’s orders. It was the 10th dropped concert […]
MADONNA’S hotly anticipated Madame X tour finally arrived in the UK last night — and was well worth the wait. The signing superstar — who at 61 has faced a string of health battles — made her debut at the London Palladium, albeit two days later than planned. But she was on immaculate form ahead of […]
Madonna has resumed her Madame X world tour in London, after cancelling dates in Portugal and the UK due to injury. The star took to the stage wearing knee supports but otherwise refused to make concessions to the “indescribable” pain she has recently been experiencing. She performed high kicks, yoga poses and even the splits […]
★★★★★ 4/5 To be honest, I was nervous I wouldn’t be able to write a review of Madonna’s long-awaited Madame X show last night. Not because she cancelled – again (this has happened ten times so far, due to an unspecified injury, said to be a dodgy knee and hip) – but because the Queen of […]
★★★★★ 5/5 I‘m not sure who was having more fun at the opening of Madonna‘s London residency, the audience or the star. She sang, she danced, she joked and she beamed with almost childlike glee at the crowd’s adoring response. “How happy I am to have made it this far,” she declared, calling London “my second […]
The unpredictable iconoclast kicked off a five-night run at the intimate Met on Saturday. Madonna will also perform Tuesday and Wednesday and tickets are still available for her Madame X tour. Give Madonna credit for embarking on her ambitious Madame X tour. Many of her peers approaching their golden years are riding the wave of […]
The first words Madonna used to express herself on opening night of her four-show run at the Met Philadelphia on Saturday were written by James Baldwin. “Art is here to prove that all safety is an illusion.” Percussive sounds were tapped out as the silhouette of a woman hunched over a typewriter was shown on […]
Madonna has described the title character of her latest album, Madame X, as a secret agent traveling the globe in disguise. Yet there was no concealing the singer’s hard-wired superstar nature Wednesday night as she brought her new tour to the Wiltern — as small a room as she’s likely played in decades, if not […]
Madonna is a multitude of things to a multitude of people: LGBTQ+ champion and feminist groundbreaker. Movie star and fashion icon. Prim Brit-esque author and tough-talking New Yorker. And of course, the Queen of Pop. Because through all of the tabloid sensationalism and premature reports of her career demise, nobody has been able to permanently […]
Walking into Madame X’s world is like taking a pill and having a dream. Madonna sets the stage to bring her audience a show that is both electrifying, magical and filled with various caricatures. Only the ever evolving queen of pop, Madonna, can be both elusive and elusive at the same time (if that is […]
1. While a lot of Colosseum concerts seem to be tryouts for longer-term residencies, nothing about Madonna’s performance suggested that it would be suited for an extended stay in Vegas. In an approach similar to her last several tours, Madonna omitted most of her biggest hits in favor of playing nearly every song from her latest […]
The Queen of Pop, The Material Girl, Ms. Ciccone. Madonna has many names and even more personas, several of which were on display during her Oct. 16 performance at The Chicago Theatre, the first of seven sold-out concerts during her Chicago residency. Of all Madonna’s alter-ego’s, Madame X – the title character of her fourteenth […]
The pop music icon delivered a potent three-hour spectacle Wednesday night at the Chicago Theatre where she kicked off the first of seven shows at the venue. There will be a lot of exhausted people in Chicago over the next week and a half, particularly after attending one of Madonna’s shows during her mini-residency at […]
The Queen of Pop leaves her hits behind in search of an intimate connection God Control: “Chicago, Madame X has arrived.” No shit. Late on Wednesday night, Madonna descended upon The Chicago Theatre for the first of seven shows. How late? Well, she didn’t actually go on until 11 p.m., despite tickets initially reporting an 8:30 p.m. start […]
Madame X Tour Chicago Theatre October 16, 2019 “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” One has to wonder if Madonna Louise Ciccone has accepted this James Baldwin quote as her life’s mantra. Let’s face it; the native Michigander has always had a reputation as a rabble-rouser. So, when it was announced that she would […]
Score ***** The queen of pop’s intimate Brooklyn residency is powerful, empowering, stunning – and one of the best gigs of the year Madonna has always done what she wants. Roll around the VMAs stage in a wedding dress? Of course. Forego a traditional record deal and sign up with a promoter instead? Sure thing. Skip […]
“Stop raping the matriarchy!” Madonna, clad in a sequin-encrusted Revolutionary war costume, shouted to the sold-out crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Thursday night. Like the Madame X character she crafted for her 14th album, the Madonna who has opted for a theater residency after 37 years of touring […]
An intimate evening that felt sacred yet sleazy — the ultimate Madonna combination Madonna has never shied away from taking chances. Thirty years after she set fire to the Eighties with the disco basilica Like a Prayer, she’s as gloriously weird as ever. Hence her excellent new Madame X tour, a testament to the genius […]
Madonna heeft haar langverwachte nieuwe wereldtournee Madame X dinsdag afgetrapt in New York. In het Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn waren zo’n tweeduizend fans getuige van haar comeback. Beelden van het concert zijn er niet. Madonna had vooraf een telefoonverbod aangekondigd omdat ze wil dat fans de show echt beleven in plaats van door […]
The singer, who turned up an hour late, played a lengthy set which laced tracks from her recent album with classic hits from her backcatalogue at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn. All fans were asked to lock their phones in an airtight container before the show to stop them filming the gig. […]
Madonna was like a virgin — shiny and new all over again. In the first full concert of her sixth decade, the 61-year-old Queen of Pop ventured into unknown terrain, launching her “Madame X” theater tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday night. In a 37-year career playing arenas […]
When Madonna announced the Madame X Tour there was a wave of intrigue that hit fans as we have been accustomed to experiencing the greatness of a live Madonna show in rather large gatherings like stadiums and arenas, but a theater with a 2,109 person capacity? This is unheard of for a star of her […]
Tonight was Madonna’s Madame X Tour debut in Brooklyn, and it’s safe to say the crowd was feeling it — because Madonna was feeling it. After so many rumors of a short show that could be dubbed Disarray of Light, Madame X turned out to be a thematically cohesive, at turns effusively warm and chillingly foreboding, […]
It turns out Madonna — the queen of re-invention — is human. She admitted last night during the first performance of her Madame X show at Brooklyn’s Howard Gilman Opera house: “The one thing I need is sleep. I’m tired.” She added that she could use a nap. But the 61 year old pop icon […]
