Reading Time: 3 minutesPhaedra Ensemble brings Meredith Monk’s instrumental world to Kings Place with the launch of Realms, a new album five years in the making that traces a journey from strings to winds to the human voice. 1. What first…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHaving won a Binge Fringe Queer Performers Award and received a dozen four and five-star reviews, Goblin is a “seriously impressive” darkly comic solo performance about growing up, obsession and the transformative power of being seen. The show has…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVAULT Creative Arts has officially opened the Lower Marsh Arts Club, a newly refurbished permanent venue in London that will support early-career artists through a new £8,000 guarantee scheme and a free-to-participate arts festival. Formerly known…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of the Project a Black Planet Programme, this film screening helps us pull at the threads that hold the African diaspora together. On 6th September, the Barbican held a screening of Ola Balogun historical epic…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOverall, this was a beautiful piece with dancers demonstrating enviable mastery over their own bodies, but also how much human relationships are a part of life.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRuby (Nesba Crenshaw) and Roger (Alan Booty) are on their first date on a park bench overlooking Lewisham after matching on an online dating site. The play follows the couple on a series of dates.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA table, four Nigerian aunties and one countercultural Black woman disregarding expectations. Presented by Olúwatósin Omotosho at Dancing City festival, The Aunties: House of Masks does not fail to entertain while comically criticising the traditional Nigerian aunties.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a play about what cannot be said, Holy Fool says too much. Set at the height of Stalin’s regime, Holy Fool follows composer Dmitri Shostakovich as he attempts to survive under a system in which artistic…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA powerful, largely overlooked story of Irish gay community and chosen family in the AIDS crisis, undercut by weak, unfocused direction. There have been many plays and musicals exploring the harrowing years of the AIDS crisis in…
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘This intimate staging brings the iconic tale of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life, exploring the political intrigue and tragic tensions of Handel’s classic opera.’ Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto is a classic Baroque opera, full of political intrigue,…