Reading Time: 5 minutesThis October, award-winning playwright Alex Oates (All In A Row) and renowned dance artist Esther Huss will stage Rude Health, an innovative arts project in the North East of England that explores health.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSecond Hand Problems is a play by Emma Kelly, directed by Neta Gracewell, showing at Theatro Technis as part of the Camden Fringe.
The play presents three stories of six women across different time periods, focusing on their personal struggles and how these challenges are part of a larger narrative. It also highlights the power of shared grief and joy, and how these women provide invaluable support to one another in confronting and overcoming their most difficult personal challenges.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Iain Mackechnie, guitarist of The Other. The Other is an extraordinary hour of music and images from a pool of 8 musicians and visual artist, Shatha Altowa, some who have an experience of forced displacement and migration, from Scotland, Chile, Iran, Brazil, Syria and Yemen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlcohol disguised in plastic fizzy drink bottles, the yellow iPhone 5c and the sweet sounds of “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz - Tit(s) for Tat does a great job of bringing me back to my adolescence where the biggest concern I had was which top and jeans I was going to wear to whatever party was happening that night.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year since 1995, the National Theatre’s Connections Festival has commissioned new plays for performance by youth theatre groups across the country. Titas Halder’s Replica is a fresh, urgent take on the power of misinformation, told through the story of a school trip gone wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMargaret Leng Tan has led an extraordinary life. Originally from Singapore, the New York-based pianist became the first woman to earn a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Juilliard in 1971 after earning a scholarship to study there as a teen.
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Some Enchanted Evening," performed by The English Musical Theatre Orchestra, was a delightful homage to classic musical theatre, featuring a full 26-piece orchestra playing the original arrangements of beloved songs.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTraverse Theatre has announced its programme for TravFest24, it’s yearly festival of Fringe Theatre running in accordance with the Edinburgh Fringe, from Thursday 25th July to Sunday 25th August.
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Get It On - Night of Glam Rock" presents itself as a homage to an era that defined a generation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Lucy Glover who is Executive Producer and Lucy Bennett who is Co-Artistic Director of StopGap Dance Company.