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 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 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 minutesWalking into the Oxford Playhouse for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), I knew I was in for a fast-paced evening, but I was not prepared for quite how much fun it would be.
Reading Time: 2 minutesManchester Drive tells the story of aspiring rapper Ards as he tries to balance his new found fame as a rapper with his parents’ expectations of graduating medical school. After a video of him performing goes viral, he embarks on a career in music and tries to make his new life work.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is rare for a new musical to arrive in the West End and feel so instantly deserving of its place on one of the capital’s biggest stages. Beetlejuice is exactly that kind of show.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA beautifully intimate and emotionally rich celebration of Thomas Hardy, elevated by mesmerising music and the commanding presence of Anton Lesser.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the show begins with benign birdsong, the houselights are still up. Audience members are seated on chairs along three sides of the stage at Brighton Dome, while the rest of us sit at a more comfortable distance in the auditorium.