Reading Time: 2 minutesSeamless blend of comedy and sincerity with fantastic script and performances, but other elements felt underused or clunky ‘Stayin Alive’ has now concluded its two-night run at the lovely 53Two in Manchester. Victoria Oxley, the writer, stars…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“accomplished, elegant musical journey from Bach to Gershwin” A trumpet and string quartet is an unusual formation for a concert, but is the chosen vehicle for this concert inspired by the European salon concerts of the 18th and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDark descent into the internet age. Although the advent of social media is such a recent phenomena in our history, we can’t help but see that there is something primordial about the way it twists our human…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn excoriating satire of graduate ambition and corporate greed Recent graduates Alex (Josh Gordon) and Rachel (Maddie Frutig) are fully immersed in the London rat-race, negotiating insurance deals from their high-rise offices. Alongside the early-morning tube journeys…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA highly emotive and educational piece of theatre vital for the modern world. From the premise alone, Burnout: A Verbatim Play promised to be fascinating. Composed of dialogue entirely from twenty-seven interviews conducted by writer Ellen Bradbury,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A Strange and Powerful Selection of Well-Curated Shorts” The Manipulate festival’s horror shorts screening was initially intended as a retrospective. As the host of the event explains, upon seeing the quality and diversity of the current animated…
Reading Time: 4 minutesA verbatim staging of the 1965 James Baldwin vs William F. Buckley Jr. debate, “Is The American Dream At The Expense Of The American Negro?”, returns to the London stage following UK and US tours. Interview with Arnell Powell and Eric T. Miller.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSam is performing at Kings Place with Pekka Kuusisto and members of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra on 24 February as part of the 'Platoon Presents' series to launch their new album Willows
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate the West End premiere of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY starring Mark Addy, Jenna Russell and Noah Mullins at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Passenger, who has written the music and lyrics is performed a one-off concert to celebrate the production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHersh Dagmarr is a queer singer and visual artist based in London. On stage at Crazy Coqs, a lavish cabaret venue located inside Brasserie Zédel, he performs a selection of classic Hollywood songs, from ‘Black Market’ (A Foreign Affair, 1948) through to ‘More’ (Dick Tracy, 1990).