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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalking People at the Bush Theatre is a fairly new innovation: a series of improvised evenings amongst a few actors, and their director, Richard Vincent. The genius behind this is Elinah Saleh Franck, the producer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOverall, however, King of Pangaea is slick, ambitious, and sweet; a lovely little musical that deals with loss through child-like innocence and the transcendence of hope.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThanks For Having Me, a new play written by and starring a confusingly endearing Keelan Kember, is a naturalistic examination of the politics and culture of dating and hookups in contemporary life, directed by Monica Cox.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPress Night for Kenrex, written and performed by Jack Holden, was received with rapturous cheers and applause, not to mention a standing ovation – although these are handed out so frequently nowadays, they signify little.