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The Manchester arts centre HOME have announced the construction of a new temporary outdoor venue, Homeground.

The venue is set to launch on Friday 28 May with socially-distanced seating for 400 audience […]

Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies is a deeply personal love letter from director Amanda Ladd-Jones, both to movies and to her father, film industry executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr.

Whilst not always […]

After two hit runs at the Southwark Playhouse last year, Aria Entertainment’s actor-musician revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is being transferred to the West End this autumn.

The […]

Anthony Newley, who died 22 years ago today, was a true renaissance man. Actor, writer, composer, pop star, cabaret singer, comedian: his achievements are too extensive to list here. Unfortunately, despite the […]

With the closing of entertainment venues due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the longing for theatre productions and performances has never been so strong. Simon Godwin’s Romeo & Juliet was due to perform in July 2 […]

Jay Tennant takes us back to early 00s anthemic rock with sublime new single ‘Spectre’.

There is a rumour going round that Jay Tennant actually intended his new single to be the theme to the James Bond mov […]

The popular Sunday Soul concert series will be returning to the Chiswick Playhouse from 25 May, as part of the already announced Recharged Festival.

The show last ran at the Playhouse in December, and the new […]

The fiftieth anniversary of Look-In passed early this year with barely a murmur. Despite its massive popularity in the 1970s, this ‘TV Times for kids’ often seems to have been forgotten. But its funny and eng […]

Imagine you’re a 18-year old girl, who is very passionate about gender equality and isolated during a pandemic. Imagine you keep hearing “she was asking for it” every time the topic of unwanted attention or sexua […]

Chloe Foy’s latest single ‘Shining Star’ is a delicate and heartfelt tribute to her late father. Foy’s deeply personal lyrics “He steps out from day to day / Fortune evades him still” are interlaced with a mela […]

BLOXX have returned with surprise release ‘Everything I’ve Ever Learned’, a track displaying the same unreserved, upbeat energy that first drew people to the Uxbridge four piece. The song is BLOXX’s first new m […]

Leading venues are warning that this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year is in serious doubt over a lack of any guidance for how shows can be staged safely. 

Taking place throughout all of August, […]

Bigfoot, or the Sasquatch as it is also known, is one of the most salient and enduring myths anywhere in North America. A legend passed down generations, the contemporary obsession with the myth can be traced to […]

Italy has abolished a 1913 censorship law which allowed the government to ban films based on moral and religious grounds. This landmark change will see filmmakers now effectively self-regulating their work, […]

Darius Marder’s debut feature Sound of Metal begins with, well, just that: the sound of a metal guitar, reverberating eerily over a black screen.

Eventually we see the bare torso of a man, framed by his d […]

Run opens with a flashback scene, something this film makes use of frequently. We see an upset Diane Sherman (Sarah Paulson) after giving birth to a premature baby. Then we are propelled into the present day, […]

Despite the widely negative reviews it received during its Broadway stint, The Lightning Thief is a deeply enjoyable musical. It has a great score and it’s packed with well-timed comedy and creative staging. A […]

Maya Kokerov takes us through her recommendations of books by women you should be reading this year.

March was Women’s History Month, a month dedicated to commemorating and celebrating not only women t […]

Downton Abbey and Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens is set to replace Armie Hammer in Starz’s upcoming series Gaslit, which also stars Julia Roberts (Erin Brokovich) and Sean Penn (Milk).

The series is b […]

Savvas D. Michael’s Red Rage is as crazy as it sounds. A vigilante couple tear through their town’s drug underworld in a spell of murderous lust; the husband, Oscar (Jack Turner), claims the killings were ins […]