Reading Time: 2 minutes“Traditional Festive Fun” The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Nutcracker was not a performance of the famous ballet. Instead the piece chose to highlight the music and storytelling of the show, putting a spotlight on the musicians who are often tucked…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Hilarious and Heartwarming – Without Ever Pulling Its Punches” Dancing Shoes isn’t quite the play you might expect from its title. The words ‘dancing shoes’ suggest something light and playfully funny, and certainly not a story about…
Reading Time: 2 minutesPantomimes are a cultural staple in the UK, marking the lead up to Christmas with family inclusive interactive theatre. In Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story, that family-friendly appeal is similarly broad, perhaps though for a different kind of family.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is there to say about Beauty and the Beast that has not been said before? A classic fairy tale that everyone from Disney-film-watching-age up knows the story beats to, it takes a brave artistic team with drive and a vision to retell it in a refreshing way to justify the new direction, and to also retell it in a way that’s close enough to the original to stay faithful to the themes of transformation, love, and redemption.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerceptive but underdeveloped Created by Xie Rong, Daniel York Loh and Beibei Wang, Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Shan Hai Jing 山海经 (The Classic of Mountains…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA millennium tale with heart, humour and womanhood to bend time itself. Karim Khan’s Before the Millennium is that festive show that manages to feel both nostalgic and of the moment. It’s warm and funny and rooted in the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesCanadian theatre and cabaret star Ryan Graham Hinds lands at Crazy Coqs for a fabulous UK debut, sharing what prompted a move to a new country and a new life in London, with music from Kander &…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJUGGERNAUT, the debut play by Lyle Sauer, is a boldly original piece with a premise as bizarre as it is intriguing: a holy cryptid lies dead, a town begins to rot from the inside out, and Bill must resurrect the beast before everything collapses
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in the drab sinkhole of Soviet Moscow, Boogie on the Bones explores a little-known Russian subculture from the 1950s: the Stilyagi, or “style-hunters.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesA joyously reimagined Sleeping Beauty that celebrates everything we love about Cambridge panto If you want proof that pantomime is still alive, glittering, and gloriously bonkers in 2025, look no further than Sleeping Beauty at the newly…