Reading Time: 2 minutesOn International Women’s Day, the Women’s Voices Arts & Culture Festival opened its programme at the Playhouse Theatre with an evening dedicated to the formidable legacy of Lynn Seymour, a dancer whose dramatic intensity helped reshape narrative ballet in the twentieth century.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the civic imagination, a balcony suggests authority: a ruler greeting the crowd, a politician delivering promises, a monarch acknowledging applause. In Why I Am and Why I Am Not, the balcony of the old town hall becomes something else entirely. It becomes a place for ordinary declaration.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production is a brilliant testament to the playful, vital nature of modern ballet - at times surreal, at times intensely human, and always captivating.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe time is finally here: the doors of the long-awaited Soho Theatre Walthamstow are open. And on arrival, the space itself is a spectacle. With the trademark palette of the much-loved venue on Dean Street, this brand-new big sibling looks like it belongs in the West End.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased in Nancy, France, Ballet de Lorraine are a company known for flipping the script on the traditions of dance, incorporating modern music and blending styles to bring something new to the artform. In this piece, the choreographers Marco da Silva Ferreira and Adam Linder fully utilise the company’s talents, bringing us two pieces which take inspiration from history and reimagine them for our current times.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhatever its sci-fi thriller marketing might suggest, at its heart The Murmuration of Starlings is a gentle exploration of memory loss, with The Predator representing dementia’s creeping influence.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Henry Patterson, a performer, broadcaster and rising musical theatre talent bringing a fresh twist to the traditional talk show format with his new live series, House Seats.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFreshers’ week is a great setting for comedy: new identities, awkward friendships, and the chaos of young adulthood colliding for the first time. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, written by George Ryder and Brodie Husband and presented by Linnet Theatre at the Jack Studio Theatre, taps into this world with a playful and recognisable energy that initially feels both warm and authentic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by LeCoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is labelled an ‘absurdist, existential examination… marinating in the violence, complicity and paradox of modern life’.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the Studio at The Other Palace to take our seats, Emma Wilkinson Wright was already on stage, as Liz Truss, hard at work at her ministerial desk.