REVIEW: What Dreams May Come
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake sure you bring some tissues because this is a faultless tear-jerker. What Dreams May Come is part of English Touring Opera’s 2025 season starting at the New Diorama.
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REVIEW: Guildhall Jazz Orchestra & Choir: Emboldened
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had the pleasure of attending the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra & Choir’s performance of Emboldened. Composed by Steve Banks and arranged by Jonathan Silk, this collaboration was a brilliant fusion of jazz and choral elements that brought Banks' composition to life.
REVIEW: Lil.Miss.Lady
Reading Time: 2 minutesHighRise Entertainment’s latest production is an electrifying journey into London's '90s Black-British bass music culture, blending immersive storytelling with the raw, live energy of a rave.
REVIEW: Boys from the Blackstuff
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiverpool in the 1980’s was a tough time to be working class, and no-one knows that better than these boys from the blackstuff, five tarmac layers who have been laid off and searching for work for over a year.
REVIEW: Count Dykula
Reading Time: 2 minutesButch loser Count Dykula (Rosanna Suppa) no longer scares the humans she preys upon behind big Asda. Propelled by her loneliness, Dykula leaves her gothic castle and enrols in Scare University to up her scare skills and find other monsters to consort with.
REVIEW: More Life
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you were given a second chance at life, would you take it? What if it was just an echo of a life, ‘a ripple in the water?’ This is the question More Life poses to an audience kept constantly on the edge of their seats.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Anna Morris
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with playwright, comedian and actor Anna Morris ahead of Fringe First winning show in 2024, Son of a Bitch coming to Southwark Playhouse from 26th February to 15th March.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Holly Bancroft, Alice Bebber and Ella Hakin
Reading Time: 5 minutesLady’s Fingers, co-written and performed by Ella Hakin and Holly Bancroft, follows three young women navigating the corporate world with a mix of clown, choreography, and comedy. Presented by Penny Drop and produced by Brave Mirror, the show returns after a sold-out run, exploring work-life absurdities with wit and charm. AYP holds this exclusive dialogue with Holly and Ella.
REVIEW: Animal Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was familiar, as most, with George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and had seen stage adaptations of it before. It is a story we enjoy to see told again with it’s simplicity but wildly complex meaning.
REVIEW: Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Reading Time: 2 minutesWriter and solo performer Mark Stratford portrays the exciting life of William Macready, a Victorian-era stage actor and theatre manager.