Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Makropulos Affair finds its elixir of life to remain immortally relevant ‘How ugly to be old!’ Composed in the 1920s by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, The Makropulos Affair is an opera based on a play by…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake sure you bring some tissues because this is a faultless tear-jerker. What Dreams May Come is part of English Touring Opera’s 2025 season starting at the New Diorama.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had the pleasure of attending the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra & Choir’s performance of Emboldened. Composed by Steve Banks and arranged by Jonathan Silk, this collaboration was a brilliant fusion of jazz and choral elements that brought Banks' composition to life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHighRise Entertainment’s latest production is an electrifying journey into London's '90s Black-British bass music culture, blending immersive storytelling with the raw, live energy of a rave.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiverpool in the 1980’s was a tough time to be working class, and no-one knows that better than these boys from the blackstuff, five tarmac layers who have been laid off and searching for work for over a year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesButch loser Count Dykula (Rosanna Suppa) no longer scares the humans she preys upon behind big Asda. Propelled by her loneliness, Dykula leaves her gothic castle and enrols in Scare University to up her scare skills and find other monsters to consort with.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you were given a second chance at life, would you take it? What if it was just an echo of a life, ‘a ripple in the water?’ This is the question More Life poses to an audience kept constantly on the edge of their seats.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI went to see One Punch expecting a story that would really hit home, and it certainly did. The play is only an hour long, but it tells the tale of a night out gone wrong—a night that changes everything.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was familiar, as most, with George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and had seen stage adaptations of it before. It is a story we enjoy to see told again with it’s simplicity but wildly complex meaning.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWriter and solo performer Mark Stratford portrays the exciting life of William Macready, a Victorian-era stage actor and theatre manager.