Reading Time: 3 minutesFour men. Four movements. Four seasons: a stark, sinuous and urgent dance piece inspired by Vivaldi’s seminal composition. On the day of Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, how fitting to see a piece of art questioning climate change. Led…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn energetic and well-danced piece that feels it’s missing something
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe concept is simple, a group of men who are regulars at their local pub ‘The Jungle’ join in song. Each character represents the well-loved pub locals we all recognise from the heart broken romantic to the practical joker.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTelling the story of Johnny Cash and June Carter through a theatrical lens, this production blends concert-style performance with biographical storytelling, aiming to offer a fresh perspective on two of country music’s most iconic figures.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt Oxford Playhouse, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S Eliot returns to the stage in a production directed by Simon Tavener, with Assistant Director Vicky Wild.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter what was an evening of overall mixed emotions regarding this act, Uptown Girl: The Billy Joel Collection has definitely left an impression, for good or ill. Taking this performance to The Beacon stage, this group of musicians took the audience through the artist’s greatest hits.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA visually inventive and playful political satire, Trompe l’Oeil is driven by strong performances and bold staging. Trompe l’Oeil is now in its sixth year, having previously played Off Broadway and in London, and arrives in Manchester…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Something in between nostalgia and initiation, the 50th anniversary screening felt less like revisiting a classic than being enthusiastically recruited into its ever-growing cult"
Reading Time: 3 minutesKilljoy Theatre’s Russian Roulette is an often unsettling one-hour work-in-progress that leans heavily into abstraction to explore eating disorders and systemic misogyny.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in a remote lighthouse, Quiet Light follows a lonely lighthouse keeper Ava (Elizabeth Anderson) struggles with the arrival of a marooned sailor and tries to cope with the arrival of marooned sailor Ray (Oisin Maguire).