The Hey Duggee interactive stage show comes to The Lowry, Salford March 24–26. It’s the first-ever stage adaptation of the CBeebies series, which brings Duggee and friends to life through puppetry and storytelling. It has been adapted for the stage by Vikki Stone (#zoologicalsociety – Royal And Derngate, Romeo And Duet – ITV) and Matthew… Continue reading Hey Duggee in Salford
Month: September 2024
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
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
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
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 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
Women, Beware the Devil
Do you believe in the Devil? You’ll find him today, a prologue to this play at the Almeida, bemoaning that we don’t give him the credit for what he does as he scans the news in the Evening Standard before taking us back to the mid-seventeenth century when people took him suitably seriously. It is… Continue reading Women, Beware the Devil