Reading Time: 2 minutesPantomimes are a cultural staple in the UK, marking the lead up to Christmas with family inclusive interactive theatre. In Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story, that family-friendly appeal is similarly broad, perhaps though for a different kind of family.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is there to say about Beauty and the Beast that has not been said before? A classic fairy tale that everyone from Disney-film-watching-age up knows the story beats to, it takes a brave artistic team with drive and a vision to retell it in a refreshing way to justify the new direction, and to also retell it in a way that’s close enough to the original to stay faithful to the themes of transformation, love, and redemption.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerceptive but underdeveloped Created by Xie Rong, Daniel York Loh and Beibei Wang, Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Shan Hai Jing 山海经 (The Classic of Mountains…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA millennium tale with heart, humour and womanhood to bend time itself. Karim Khan’s Before the Millennium is that festive show that manages to feel both nostalgic and of the moment. It’s warm and funny and rooted in the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJUGGERNAUT, the debut play by Lyle Sauer, is a boldly original piece with a premise as bizarre as it is intriguing: a holy cryptid lies dead, a town begins to rot from the inside out, and Bill must resurrect the beast before everything collapses
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in the drab sinkhole of Soviet Moscow, Boogie on the Bones explores a little-known Russian subculture from the 1950s: the Stilyagi, or “style-hunters.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesBalerno Theatre Company (BTC) kick off our panto season in Edinburgh this year with their production of Beauty and The Beast.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Alexander Arnold, who plays the role of Mike in Most Favoured. From award-winning David Ireland (The Fifth Step, Cyprus Avenue) comes a sharp and hilarious exploration of faith and loneliness in a Travelodge starring Lauren Lyle and Alexander Arnold.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Linbury Prize for stage design, run by the National Theatre and the Linbury Trust, is the major award for early-career stage designers.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDescending beneath Waterloo into the basement venue of The Glitch, you enter a softly lit magical archive – VAULT Creative Arts returning production of The Lost Library of Leake Street (written and directed by Oli Savage).