Reading Time: 3 minutesThe compelling complexities of this modern family drama would pique any author’s interest, and for Roger Steinmann, the matriarch Ruth is the inspiration for his fictional deep-dive into the secret life of a convicted felon’s wife.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thundery night in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr stayed at a motel in Memphis. In Katori Hall’s play, The Mountaintop, he then discovers that by tomorrow, he will be dead.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFull Moon Theatre presents a new interpretation of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, staged this week at the Oxford Playhouse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCome Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical, the stage adaptation of the Bollywood blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ to its legions of fans), lands in Manchester with a bright heart, a dazzling set, and a thoroughly Western-Bollywood fusion that feels both nostalgic and new.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMulti-disciplinary artist and self-described ‘choreo-photolist’ Benji Reid blends photography, movement and theatre to create something entirely unique: a live stage performance in which dancers, objects and light are transformed into extraordinary stills before our eyes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn The Turning, sisters Rakhi and Simmy Singh beautifully explore our tentative, vulnerable relationship to nature by melding together traditional Indian music with Western classical and folk, using violin, electronics, and their birdsong-like singing voices.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore I watched Natural Behaviour, I had read nothing about it and assumed it would be a comedy of sorts. A satire about misfits attempting to find their place in this strange, pretentious world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnBook Theatre presents a comedy double bill of Red Peppers by Noël Coward and Aged In Wood by Cian Griffin.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of Sadlers Wells Flamenco Festival, Compañía Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco (Ballads of Flamenco Dance) is a 80 minute masterclass in the classical style of Flamenco dance.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s something joyfully chaotic about Shhh!: The Musical – an hour of high-energy, youthful performances that wears its message on its sleeve, even as it’s busy breaking into song and throwing itself to the floor in the name of comedy.