Dracula : The Bloody Truth. Or is it? Maybe, but who cares if it is Le Navet Bete who are performing. This exciting local theatre

Ghost stories are hard to stage as their nature is absolute; there are no degrees of success—if they do not scare the audience, they are

Orfeo, poet and musician, the biggest pop star of his era, was endowed with a lyre which he strummed and plucked all day, enchanting everybody

I don’t usually review shows like this, but it was an irresistible invitation, so here I am in Seaton Delaval Community Centre, watching Meta4 Dance

With the country and indeed the world facing unparalleled problems, many people have been yearning for life as it used to be. The cost-of-living crisis

In the last but one Tory leadership race, Rishi Sunak told a gathering of ordinary Tory members in some countryside constituency that Labour had been

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain, Sami Ibrahim’s latest play, is a poetic fable that begins with a young woman in a field shearing a

After a short tour of its co-producers—and following the sell-out run of The Book Thief, which is a tough act to follow—this new production of

The buzz you get from this play is the kind that keeps your mind racing, long after. It’s about life, the universe and everything—but is

A retelling of classical Greek mythology is one thing, but a retelling through the eyes of the Gorgon Medusa, notorious for turning anyone into stone

My Neighbour Totoro was a hit as soon as ticket sales opened, the best sales ever in the history of the Barbican, which shows what affection

A church is always an interesting setting for a theatrical production—dependent upon your own relationship with religion, the building can be welcoming or foreboding, comforting