Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Julia to talk about her latest play Auntie Empire premiering at Manipulate Festival. 1. You’ve described this work as absurd and rambunctious. At what point did you know this story needed to be…
Reading Time: 3 minutesCoalesce Dance Theatre’s latest production, Mika and the Polar Bear, is an imaginative and unforgettable journey into the wonders of our natural world, with friendship, compassion, and the power of hope at its centre. We sat down…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Sadiq talking about Tell Me,a visceral fusion of circus, dance and theatre tackling HIV stigma. What first made you want to create Tell Me? The first thing that made me want to make this…
Reading Time: 4 minutesBefore their visit to Darlington Hippodrome in February, we caught up with the cast for an ‘oinktastic’ chat about life behind the puppets, family moments, and why Peppa’s world continues to bring smiles to little (and big)…
Reading Time: 2 minutesVoices kissed by angels Conducted by Harry Christophers, The Fair Maiden is The Sixteen’s Christmas Carol this year at Cadogan Hall and in Cambridge. For decades, The Sixteen have excelled not only as one of the world’s…
Reading Time: 2 minutesInspired by the iconic, terrifying film series,
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
is a new story live on stage.
Written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not a bad idea to be invited to a “fireside” in Wembley on a freezing, rainy Sunday morning. And although there’s no real fire in Punchdrunk Enrichment Wembley, imagination and community make up for it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTransferred for one night only from Glyndebourne’s autumn season to the Royal Albert Hall, this Messiah under Aidan Oliver and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia (leader Richard Milone), with the Glyndebourne Chorus and soloists Soraya Mafi, Claire Barnett-Jones, James Way and James Platt, offered a strikingly intimate reading of Handel’s oratorio in a resolutely non-intimate space.
Reading Time: 5 minutesAlready Perfect is a searing and uplifting new musical by Tony Award winner Levi Kreis. As his Broadway show is about to be filmed, Levi unravels in his dressing room, ready to end it all. When his…
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerceptive but underdeveloped Created by Xie Rong, Daniel York Loh and Beibei Wang, Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Shan Hai Jing 山海经 (The Classic of Mountains…