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Judy and Johnny dress in typical 1950s fashion, live in a typical 1950s house and have a typical...
Read Moreby Sophie Davies | Jul 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Judy and Johnny dress in typical 1950s fashion, live in a typical 1950s house and have a typical...
Read Moreby Allie Milledge | Jul 18, 2018 | Performance, Spotlight
By Jordi Galceran. Translated by Anne García-Romero and Mark St. Germain. The corporate world is...
Read Moreby Lucy Corley | Jul 6, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight
You know a show is something special when you’re disappointed to reach the interval. As the lights...
Read Moreby Allie Milledge | Jun 20, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Let’s be honest, the world right now is a little hard to manage. The political unbalance is rife,...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Jun 13, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
It is difficult to write extensively on a piece of theatre which can be aptly summarised in three...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | May 28, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Though figuratively they may speak volumes, paintings don’t tend to literally speak for...
Read Moreby Joseph Willis | May 9, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
The first thing that comes to mind when going to see a farce, especially one that has been updated...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Going into Much Ado About Nothing, my expectations were modest. No disrespect to the play — in...
Read Moreby Sophie Davies | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Spotlight
To listen in to You Must Remember This head to their website or download directly from ITunes You...
Read Moreby Rosemary Collins | Apr 18, 2018 | Events, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight
The 18th century was a time of political and social upheaval, as Britain’s growth as an imperial...
Read Moreby Sian Bayley | Apr 13, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
As we begin to settle in our seats an overly-enthusiastic warm-up comic bounds on stage in a...
Read Moreby Sian Bayley | Apr 12, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, one that would give you a particularly...
Read Moreby Susanna Forrest | Mar 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
The circular theatre was dark. Swamp creature noises played over the sound system. Slowly we...
Read Moreby Liam Taft | Mar 23, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has a habit, it seems, of relying on crowd pleasing. In 2016,...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Mar 19, 2018 | Performance, Spotlight
Billed as a “one-woman show about sex, madness, and medicine” Freud the...
Read Moreby Rosemary Collins | Mar 16, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, is about the transition from the old to the new...
Read Moreby Hannah Forsyth | Mar 8, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
“All I know is whatever we do – it must be twice as well as men to be thought half as...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | Mar 5, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
True crime is something of a nomadic genre. Aside from comedy, no other type of narrative...
Read Moreby Ruth Phillips | Feb 20, 2018 | Ending Soon, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Entering the auditorium of The Other Palace, you descend the stairs accompanied by Soft Cell, Phil...
Read Moreby Laura Aiton | Feb 15, 2018 | Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
“That one thing we all wish we could have more of once they are gone. Time.” Finding Nana is a...
Read Moreby Trevor White | Feb 11, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
“At the edge of our decaying bodies lies a network of power greater than any tyrant has ever...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Feb 4, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Horror despite its potential has often found itself avoided by theatre practitioners despite...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Jan 12, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Seeing three monologues on the trot throws into sharp relief both the possibilities and the...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Jan 8, 2018 | Events, Homepage Featured, Not To Miss, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
Hamilton audiences are split into two camps. Either you know the whole soundtrack word by word,...
Read Moreby Ruth Phillips | Jan 5, 2018 | Performance, Spotlight
Recommend at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe by theatre critic Lyn Gardner Action at a Distance, a new...
Read Moreby Charlotte Vinsen | Dec 30, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Homepage Featured, Spotlight
The 95th Venice Biennale A useful barometer for trends in contemporary art within an international...
Read Moreby Trevor White | Nov 16, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
It has been an exciting year for Stoppard fans; Travesties played to utterly rapt audiences in the...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Nov 1, 2017 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
“You’re going to hear some things you agree with, and you’re going to hear some things you...
Read Moreby Ruth Phillips | Oct 12, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
After successful runs of a show at Edinburgh Fringe and Brits on Broadway in New York, Bucket Club...
Read Moreby Olympia Shipley | Oct 12, 2017 | Homepage Featured, Literature & Film, Spotlight
4 3 2 1 is a book that dominates your bookshelf. Built to replace any doorstopper you might have...
Read Moreby Sian Bayley | Oct 11, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
Tucked up on a boat on the Grand Union Canal near Westbourne Park station, I feel an immense sense...
Read Moreby Nisha Desai | Oct 1, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Homepage Featured, Spotlight
Housed in the former Cuming Museum – an institution founded by a father and son collectors Richard...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Sep 30, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
Footloose the Musical can be summarised in one memorable image: an oiled up Gareth Gates stood on...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Sep 29, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Homepage Featured, Spotlight
Emerging from the ashes of the vibrant Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is a much more...
Read Moreby Emily McMullin | Sep 22, 2017 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
“No more stories… Oh go on, just one more,” I heard myself think as I reminisced about being read...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Sep 21, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
Once upon a time humanity worshipped a collection of gods who were beautiful and often petty, who...
Read Moreby Rosemary Collins | Sep 20, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
What does it mean to offer help to someone in need? Once the warm glow’s over, what’s taken root...
Read Moreby Nicola Sharpe | Sep 15, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Events, Not To Miss, Spotlight
In a new venture for English Heritage, the charity’s first ever sound installation Cavalry 360˚ is...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Sep 14, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
“Every thing I see or know is put in my head by God. Every thing he created is there every...
Read Moreby Rebecca Duncan | Sep 12, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Spotlight, What's On: Art & Exhibitions
“I used to love going to Cartwright Hall as a kid, it was the only place in Bradford I could see...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Sep 9, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
Nobody likes pauses. Especially pauses in conversation where, staring into the dregs of a drink...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | Sep 5, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
If Wes Anderson were ever to try his hand at staging a Fringe production, it would look something...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Sep 2, 2017 | Ending Soon, Events, Performance, Spotlight, What's On: Performance
If you’re travelin’ in the north country fair Where the winds hit heavy on the...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Aug 30, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
In among the delights of Buzz: A New Musical, (Fat Rascal Theatre), Trump’d (Two Thirds Comedy)...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Aug 30, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
“Regret – not now, maybe later”, says the unnamed Her (Billie Piper). She thinks it might be a...
Read Moreby Nisha Desai | Aug 29, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
The James Cousins Company presents a retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like it for The Place’s...
Read Moreby Charlotte Vinsen | Aug 29, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe I watched a man loudly brush his teeth and gulp down a huge amount...
Read Moreby Charlotte Vinsen | Aug 24, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Events, Performance, Spotlight
As anyone who has been to the Edinburgh Fringe knows, if you walk up the Royal Mile in August you...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | Aug 23, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
If you’re fresh off the train/plane/automobile and eager to fit at least one “quintessentially...
Read Moreby Charlotte Vinsen | Aug 23, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
One of the main advantages of Fringe theatre is the element of difference. Not having to comply...
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