Reading Time: 2 minutesBlasphemous, bonkers and brilliantly queer Following on from last year’s breakout Fringe run, Jeezus! returns for its second coming in London this spring, and it does so with even more sparkle, swagger, and subversive bite. Directed by Laura Killeen,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The team behind RUM handle Mallalieu’s material with immense skill and care” Public consciousness has been raised, in recent years, to the concerns around male mental health and the damage that unfettered patriarchy inflicts on the men…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWoke taxi drivers, shocking Christmas Market prices, Elvis impersonators and First Ministers, these Scottish comics were brilliant! A fine selection of talent graced The Beacon Arts Centre as The Scottish Comedians came to give Greenock a hard…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCotton Queen is a coming-of-age story, but it is also about inheritance, women’s power and the long afterlife of colonialism. At the BFI preview screening of Cotton Queen, film journalist Leila Latif introduced the film by situating…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEver wondered what your favourite karaoke classic from the noughties, or latest radio hit would sound like performed as classic show tunes? Or what show-biz icons Liza Minelli and Liberace would sound like in their own vivacious cabaret together?
Reading Time: 2 minutesRenata Flores is a Peruvian powerhouse reshaping what Latin music can sound and feel like. A warm April night at the Jazz cafe in Camden became the stage for a performance that refused to sit quietly within…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHailing from Ontario, Canada, Talk is Free Theatre (TIFT) made a stop in London on their world tour of their production of Mike Bartlett’s groundbreaking play Cock.
Reading Time: 2 minutesConteh at Liverpool’s Royal Court was a thoroughly engaging production, based on the life of real-life local boxing legend John Conteh - the venue pulls out all the stops.
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: 3 minutesThere are gigs that feel like a good night out, and then there are nights that remind you why live music matters in the first place.