Review: BBC PROMS: BERLIOZ'S ‘SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’, Royal Albert Hall
The National Youth Orchestra, with musicians aged 14-19, delivers a complicated and devilish programme with great style, joy, and enthusiasm.…
The National Youth Orchestra, with musicians aged 14-19, delivers a complicated and devilish programme with great style, joy, and enthusiasm.…
With some reluctance, longtime fans of Game of Thrones have acknowledged that the novel series that inspired the era-defining HBO fantasy show – George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire – will likely never be finished, and the franchise will be chiefly remembered for its disappointing TV endi…
There was a distinctly Italian air to the Proms for Rossini's 'Stabat Mater'. Exciting Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti paired Rossini's choral masterpiece with Ottorino Respighi's instrumental 'Vetrate di chiesa' or 'Church Windows' and all four soloists for Rossini's work were Italian. It ma…
There's no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theatre than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of Cats. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest running shows in Broadway's …
Four-time Fringe First and Olivier Award winning Fishamble presents For Dolores by Fringe First Award winning Eva O’Connor.…
There are few ballet dancers who can claim to be a household name, but the former Royal Ballet Principal, Carlos Acosta, is one of them. Acosta is now 53 and the Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) and Acosta Danza. Both companies feature in this mixed programme showcasing Acosta hi…
Having consistently wowed Fringe audiences, Voloz Collective returns with a welcome revival of their hit show 'The Man Who Thought He Knew too Much' - an undisputed masterclass in physical theatre.…
It was a night of cinematic imagery all round, from the colourful splashes of Oliver Knussen’s “Flourish with Fireworks” and Sergey Rachmaninov’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, to Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 11 in G minor, The Year 1905”. Under Thomas Søndergård’s w…
What did our critic think of BBC PROMS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES - SONGS FROM PAUL SIMON'S 'GRACELAND' at Royal Albert Hall?…
Some hour-long shows at the Fringe are the longest hour-long shows you’ll ever see. Pam has a twitch only she can see. She’s tried to turn to medicine, but now the only thing that’s gone is her ability to dream. It doesn’t help that her son is missing. Joslyn defreece stars in Liliana Padill…

History doesn’t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. From American writer and performer Stacie Burrows, No Good Drunk confronts the ghosts we carry in...