Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.’ This thought-provoking verse from Hebrews 13:2 inspired James MacMillan’s new oratorio, Angels Unawares, which received its UK premiere at Cadogan Hall on Tuesday, 2 June, following its world premiere in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, 22 March.
Reading Time: 3 minutesKarate Kid: The Musical is a highly successful stage adaptation that brings a familiar and much-loved story to life in a fresh and engaging way.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA modernised reimagining of the 90s thriller
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe wasn’t a good person but he was my friend
Reading Time: 2 minutesWaleed Akhtar’s The P Word is both an example of theatrical genius and of the power theatre holds in its storytelling.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHenry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is a classic of early English opera - written in the 1680’s, this is one of the earliest operas composed in England.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSecond Speaker, a new play by Nathan Chu, gradually opens out into an examination of the prison education system and the value of learning in environments designed for containment rather than growth.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSizzling Hot Circus is exactly what the title promises: bold, playful, unapologetically sensual entertainment delivered by performers operating at an astonishing level of technical skill.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory Keepers, the new work by guest artistic directors Kristina and Sadé Alleyne for the National Youth Dance Company, arrives at Sadler's Wells to remind you how much the body also keeps everything else including the grief, the joy, the smell of your mother's moisturiser and the feeling of being pulled back to something you'd half decided to forget.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo round off Bury Pride, The Met showcased Hunter King’s debut musical with a fabulous title: A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny. Written, performed and directed by King, we are taken on a rootin’, tootin’, musical journey of transition from Bolton milkmaid to Manchester cowboy.