Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream // Shakespeare Lives
When the Back to the Future musical hits the Adelphi Theatre in May next year, you won't need roads to get there.Read More
Beauty and the Beast will begin a five-week tour of the UK at the Curve Leicester in May, with further dates due to be announced soon.Read More
The pleasure of a trip to the theatre, with its limited tickets and overpriced ice-creams, is often an expensive hobby that leaves working-class communities behind. This exclusivity is not helped by the fact that, over the last decade, the arts have been consistently neglected on a national level. From creative arts subjects being culled in […]Read More
There have been plenty of parodies, spoofs, and rip-offs of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet since its first performance in the late-sixteenth century. In the past decade alone, we’ve had such highs as last year’s excellent & Juliet, and such lows as two separate instalments of the Gnomeo & Juliet film franchise. It seems odd, then, […]Read More
The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme finished at the end of August (although some businesses have extended their involvement with the scheme) and it was a huge success. The latest statistics show that diners claimed 100 million meals and it gave the hospitality industry, as well as the economy more generally, a much-needed […]Read More
The modern setting of the newly built Boulevard Theatre in Soho is host to this rather wonderful, folk-inspired, improvised musical by The Yes Queens. Performed in January 2020, and recently uploaded to YouTube, These Folk is perfect if you’re missing live performance. The newness of the Boulevard is epitomised in modern blue lit light panels […]Read More
It has been revealed that only 16% of those employed in the arts and culture industry are working class, according to a report by Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC). This, as well as other statistics in PEC’s report, has revealed a huge social class imbalance, raising concerns about the inclusivity of the arts […]Read More
The culture secretary Oliver Dowden hopes that, if successful, these rapid tests could provide results within the space of twenty minutes.Read More
Faith Healers also stars Indira Varma & David Threlfall, and will be shown as part of the Old Vic's ongoing In Camera Series.Read More
How does the truth affect us? Missing People is a collaborative production between the Leeds Playhouse and the Kani Public Arts Center, a Japanese theatre venue. Written by Brad Birch, the show was due to be performed this Summer, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily for us, a recorded production has been […]Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company's socially distanced programme will feature classic works as well as new projects from present day writers.Read More
The Stage Management Association released this new Covid-19 guidance for theatres last week as more theatres plan to reopen their doors.Read More
David Bintley’s Cinderella, staged in 2010, has made it’s way out of the archives to add a little bit of magic to our current circumstances. With breath-taking staging, bold characterisation and flawless choreography, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of Cinderella is enchanting from beginning to end. Whether through the Brother’s Grimm, Disney or Pantomime, most people […]Read More
Since the theatre industry’s final curtain call on 16th March 2020, the West End and other theatres across the UK have yet to fully reopen. Performers and crew members have been left waiting in the wings until theatreland can properly be resumed and enjoyed. We are yet to fully understand the overall effects of the […]Read More
Revitalising age-old classic plays can be something of a gamble- especially for comedies, with jokes that left the original audiences in stitches liable to fall extremely flat. Yet it’s rarely a problem for Oscar Wilde whose talents as a wordsmith, particularly in the fields of comedy and razor-sharp satire, have left both him and his […]Read More
