In 2023, it’s probably fair to say that Roy Orbison does not enjoy the same level of fame as some of his rock ‘n’ roll contemporaries, the most obvious being Elvis Presley. Nevertheless, his melancholy lyrics and impassioned vocals have become an indelible part of popular culture. After all, how many singer-songwriters can claim to… Continue reading In Dreams
Month: June 2024
Chisenhale Dance seeks 200 artists
Chisenhale Dance Space is launching its reimagined CDS Artist Community and is seeking 200 dance and performance artists to form its artistic leadership. The organisation’s renewed focus will be on supporting early-career artists with little or no institutional support. Collectively the artists will develop programmes and opportunities, trialling new approaches and ways of working that… Continue reading Chisenhale Dance seeks 200 artists
Dance Umbrella 2023
This year’s Dance Umbrella programme (6–31 October) will showcase hip hop, performance art, audio-visual experiences and operetta from artists originating from Cameroon, Greece, South Africa, Taiwan and Croydon. The live programme will include: The digital programme includes:
Curve Christmas show should be a hoot
Leicester’s Curve is to hold open auditions for actor-musicians to take part in its Christmas 2023 Studio show The Owl Who Came for Christmas. Curve’s chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said, “we always look forward to our Made at Curve family Christmas productions and we’re thrilled to be creating the first stage… Continue reading Curve Christmas show should be a hoot
Kirklees’ year and more of music
Kirklees Concert Season 2023-24 is a scaled-up programme of orchestral, organ and festive performances in Huddersfield and Dewsbury town halls for Kirklees Year of Music 2023, and chamber concerts extending into next summer. International artists making debuts with the Orchestra of Opera North include Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid in Gulda’s wild Cello Concerto, Nigerian-American soprano… Continue reading Kirklees’ year and more of music
Götterdämmerung
Longborough proves yet again that you don’t need a mega-budget to stage a Wagner opera successfully, not even when the composer calls in its climactic moment for the heroine to leap onto her horse, the surrounding conflagration to engulf a palace, the Rhine to overflow with Rhinemaidens swimming past and mortals to look down as… Continue reading Götterdämmerung
A decade of Calm Down, Dear
Multi award-winning theatremaker RashDash is curating the tenth feminist festival, Calm Down, Dear, at Camden People’s Theatre. The festival runs from 31 May to 17 June and includes Sluts with Consoles and work-in-progress Stable, which look at women in the gaming industry and horse dealing respectively, and a character comedy on fat bodies from Posey Mehta, Babycakes. Other shows consider modern sex work… Continue reading A decade of Calm Down, Dear
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)
It seems like a good idea—to tell the story of Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of the servants, all women, and to jolly things along with a little karaoke and lots of naughty words that never entered the Austen rectory. The result is girls behaving badly, characters who speak in Cor Blimey accents, jokes like riding… Continue reading Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)
La Bamba! gets into Latin stride
La Bamba!—a new dance musical featuring a soundtrack of Latin pop anthems, and starring Pasha Kovalev (Strictly Come Dancing) and Siva Kaneswaran (The Wanted)—will be at The Lowry in Salford this summer from August 17–19. The show will then head to London’s Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells West End theatre, for a limited season on August… Continue reading La Bamba! gets into Latin stride
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story
It’s back. Buddy is in the house and packing them in… again. A perennial favourite, Alan Janes’s 30+-year-old just-shy-of-a-jukebox-musical, docudrama charts the gangly, bespectacled maverick’s iron-clad self-belief, his meteoric rise to fame, ground-breaking Apollo Theatre appearance and his far few months in the limelight. With Thomas Mitchells (The Offensive’s Theo Clinton; Friendsical; Carmen 1808) ubiquitous as Narrator,… Continue reading Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story