FEATURE: A Shark Double Bill at BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the launch of BFI’s Stephen Spielberg season and his new film Disclosure Day, Jaws was screened at the IMAX, preceded by the new documentary Shark Kingdom (in 3D!).
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REVIEW: An Evening Without Kate Bush
Reading Time: 2 minutesEnter Strange Phenomena, howl with The Hounds Of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights. Kate's not there, but you are.
Performer Sarah-Louise Young invites you to release your inner Bush in this joyful, unique and mind-blowing show
REVIEW: Chaos
Reading Time: 2 minutesChaos at the Pleasance Theatre is an innovative and slick version of a scratch night from Long Nights Productions
FEATURE: Passenger – One for the Road
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate the West End premiere of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY starring Mark Addy, Jenna Russell and Noah Mullins at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Passenger, who has written the music and lyrics is performed a one-off concert to celebrate the production.
REVIEW: The Van Morrison Alumni Band
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpening last night at the Emerald Theatre, a venue new to me, was the Van Morrison Alumni Band: a tribute act to the beloved musician’s greatest hits (I’m aware the word beloved suggests a posthumous tribute but Van Morrison remains alive).
FEATURE: THE CIRCLE AND STAR LAUNCH EVENT
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo celebrate his revival launch of the newly reimagined theatre, The Circle and Star, curator and actor Steve Furst hosted a kaleidoscopic cabaret night, featuring his own cabaret alter ego, Lenny Beige.
REVIEW: By Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘By Heart’, devised and delivered by Tiago Rodrigues, is a piece of experimental theatre that invites 10 audience members to partake in a group challenge: to memorise Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
REVIEW: The Importance of Being Earnest
Reading Time: 2 minutesMax Webster’s production of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a reiteration of the same version at the National Theatre last year, which starred Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner.
REVIEW: First Night At The Proms
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe First Night of the BBC Proms was suitably majestic. The room pulsated with respect and anticipation; as the orchestra prepared to strum and string (and all the other things they do), the reverential silence was palpable.
REVIEW: Philos and Amica Do Time
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhilos and Amica Do Time, starring Leah Aspden and Nathaniel Jones, is an outrageously silly romp through time following two best friends in pursuit of fame and penises, in equal measure.