IN CONVERSATION WITH: Helena Thompson

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with SPID Theatre's Helena Thompson about their upcoming show, Artivist's Handbook.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with SPID Theatre's Helena Thompson about their upcoming show, Artivist's Handbook.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with GeeOne and Zachariyah Sol, the newly crowned Future Makers winners, to talk about performing at the Royal Albert Hall, the wild chemistry behind their partnership, and how they plan to carry grime’s legacy…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFantasia Orchestra is carving out something special with this residency at Smith Square Hall. If you have not yet heard them, you should. It feels like one of those treasures quietly hiding in plain sight. It was…

Reading Time: 2 minutesI arrived at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith expecting a lively panto, but Jack and the Beanstalk turned out to be far more ambitious. It was a sharply conceived, high energy production that reimagines the familiar tale through a surprisingly effective dystopian lens.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA charming mess of music, mischief with some total confusion I went into La Bella Bimba! without understanding a single word of Italian, and I left in exactly the same state. Even so, I had a great…

Reading Time: 2 minutesChristopher White nailed the night with an exquisite performance of the orchestra It was a little unusual to watch Carmen at the Royal Academy of Music, where most of my operatic and musical experiences have tended toward the avant-garde,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesA show full of laughter and silliness that hugs the queer child inside every one of us. I may be a child no more, yet this might be the most gender-affirming show this year for the queer,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesFestive fun for all that captures the spiritof an Irish Christmas A theatre trip at Christmas is a classic family tradition and A Fairytale for Christmas is a wonderful remedy to the mundanity of the family panto…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMarking Time delivers three fiercely distinct visions of how sound and movement bend, stretch, and disrupt our sense of time. Earlier this year, I saw Outlander at Kings Place and was fascinated by the musical chemistry between…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of exciting voices and masterful performances LSO Future, presented at the grandiose Barbican Hall, is a concert that presents a bold and imaginative vision for contemporary music. As part of the K-Music Festival 2025 and…