John Sampson News

Midsommer Flight is presenting a fully staged ROMEO AND JULIET ­ as its 2024 free Shakespeare production. See photos from the production. 

Midsommer Flight will present a free production of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET from June 28 to August 4 in six Chicago parks.

A new batch of shows to be staged at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been revealed. Learn more about the full lineup here!

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that more shows for the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be available to book. Learn more about the lineup here!

Today, Friday 24 June, sees the launch of Cairn, a new association for workers in the performing arts.

Citizens for Access to the Arts is calling for a press conference tomorrow, Wednesday, December 19th to announce their opposition to Time Warner Cable, Inc.'s decision to drop the only cable network focused on the arts, Ovation.

Yesterday, August 22, Liz Lochhead launched Poetry in the Persian Tent at the Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh, UK, to raise money for Oxfam project Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa. In the first of five Poetry in the Persian Tent readings with music, poets Liz Lochhead, John Glenday, Ryan Van Winkle, and Stephanie Green performed their verse accompanied by John Sampson on wind instruments.

Renowned poets Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, John Glenday, Vicki Fever, Aonghas MacNeacail and Stewart Conn will headline the Poetry in the Persian Tent reading series this month to raise funds for Liz Lochhead and Jim Carruth's Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa Project, in association with Oxfam.

Renowned poets Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, John Glenday, Vicki Fever, Aonghas MacNeacail and Stewart Conn will headline the Poetry in the Persian Tent reading series this August to raise funds for Liz Lochhead and Jim Carruth's Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa Project, in association with Oxfam.