Author of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves, is to host her interactive murder mystery, Bannocks and Blood, March 5, to raise funds for Boho Arts’ crowdfunding campaign. This aims to transform an old vacant building near Newcastle central station into a creative arts venue. Boho Arts launched the crowdfunding campaign in November, and has raised £34,000 in public donations so… Continue reading Ann on a mission
Month: March 2023
Seaside storm of hip hop
Jonzi D’s celebration of hip hop culture, Breakin’ Convention, storms back to Blackpool Grand Theatre June 10 with live performances from poppers, lockers, b-boys and b-girls. It also showcases local talent alongside global performers. Hosted and curated by UK hip hop legend and artistic director Jonzi D, the festival also features DJs, graffiti artists and… Continue reading Seaside storm of hip hop
Barrie play for Bolton
J M Barrie’s regency comedy Quality Street comes to Bolton Octagon as part of its UK tour. The original run in 2020 was cut short by the pandemic and has now been revived for 2023. In a co-production with New Vic Theatre, Northern Broadsides stirs in a helping of Yorkshire wit. Phoebe Throssel will be… Continue reading Barrie play for Bolton
Kagami event for Manchester
Tin Drum—the mixed reality content production studio—will debut Kagami in New York and Manchester this summer. Created with musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, the event will be at The Shed in New York and during the Manchester International Festival. Kagami fuses photography with the real world to create a mixed reality presentation. Audiences will wear… Continue reading Kagami event for Manchester
Laurels on fringe of the Bay?
A season celebrating survival awaits audiences at Tyneside’s freshest fringe venue. Laurels Theatre, in the heart of Whitley Bay’s town centre, has unveiled a programme of homegrown and visiting productions, which runs from March through to Halloween, all from a little theatre upstairs in the old ‘buffs club’ on Whitley Road. From hard-hitting dramas and… Continue reading Laurels on fringe of the Bay?
Venus & Adonis and Dido & Aeneas
These beautifully staged performances, very much in the style in which they were first seen, present an ideal opportunity to compare the work of John Blow with that of the pupil who would succeed and surpass him, Henry Purcell. Blow’s 45-minute work, the first surviving opera in English, directly inspired Purcell’s 50-minute masterpiece in its… Continue reading Venus & Adonis and Dido & Aeneas
Song From Far Away
Mourning is an intensely personal experience and, as no two people cope with grief in the same way, their actions may seem inappropriate to an outside observer. Hedge fund manager Willem (sole performer Will Young) behaves as if the world revolves around him, so the death of his younger brother is filtered through his self-absorption.… Continue reading Song From Far Away
Maud
On 23 February 2020, the young unarmed black man Ahmaud “Maud” Arbery, was jogging in Satilla Shores, Georgia when he was pursued by three white men in vehicles. Two of them were carrying guns. One admitted, “I yelled stop or I’ll blow your fucking head off.” They weren’t sure he’d done anything wrong but spent… Continue reading Maud
The Rhinegold
Third night of the run, not a press night, and the applause is loud. The people like it; my companion (a Wagner buff), specially down from Yorkshire, likes it very much; I have a few reservations. Not about the superlative singing (lovely cast) or the elemental music or the orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. Director Richard… Continue reading The Rhinegold
The Winter’s Tale
The three distinct parts of Sean Holmes’s modern dress production of The Winter’s Tale lasting over three hours are most comfortable in the second part after the interval when the audience is taken from the Wanamaker to the main theatre where everyone is seated either in the lower gallery or at a bench seat in… Continue reading The Winter’s Tale