Theatre
The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years… interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan (read more)
Creatives from all corners of the continent share their inventive and politically charged stories at London’s landmark festival of European theatre. (read more)
Warmly funny and thought-provoking, Gabriel Bisset-Smith’s play is an important contribution to the representation of mixed-race people in culture. (read more)
Actor Billy Zane narrates an arthouse production inspired by the original piece, in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death. (read more)
Claiming that it is too much of a risk to programme work by black artists is often simply an excuse for racism, a new report argues. (read more)
The theatre will be run by an ensemble called La Troupe, consisting of eight core members and other participants, all of whom are refugees. (read more)
The Symbiosis of China & America (read more)
His dark materials: Daniel Morden shines a light at the Crick Crack Club (Soho Theatre) (read more)
When the wild side is your USP, don’t be surprised when all hell breaks loose (read more)
Whimsical worlds: Revisiting the Avant-Garde (read more)
It’s not just ink at the Great British Tattoo Show (there’s rubber, lace and unguents too) (read more)
After 25 years, Womadelaide still surprises. Photos from 2017’s edition (read more)
Security stopped us because we Went Too Far…. Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre (read more)
Puppetry has a quality that allows us, as puppeteers, to get very close to people (read more)
Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap’s Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth. (read more)
ance tends to find a way, regardless of setting. Comforting as it may be, there is no real need to invoke the Billy Elliot myth of northern lad shucking off the grim strictures of working (read more)
rebuchet applies its right to invoke Henson’s Law. (Henson’s Law: Even the world’s best CGI will look dated in a decade, but an awesome puppet will always be an awesome puppet.) Since 2001, spectacle makers, (read more)
Evoking tears of joy is a delicate art – The Dream Engine have it in hand (read more)
Busy? Hell yeah! Embracing the moment and making an impact with Cirque Bijou (read more)
Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all. (read more)
Brutally funny, irreverent and extremely politically incorrect. (read more)
Photos from the visual extravaganza that was Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Camden’s Koko in July 2016 (read more)
On hyper-reality, symbolism, visual constructs and pop music. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Koko (read more)
Searching for the mean streets amongst Avignon’s pleasant boulevards (read more)
Ayreon’s staging of The Human Equation is anything but comatose (read more)
A night dedicated to the memory of London’s most flamboyant polysexual playperson (read more)
Layered fables, haunting modern myth and Afro-Caribbean folk tales in Crick Crack Club’s Soho Theatre session (read more)
One very socially relevant idea prevails: religion not as the cause of evil, but as the facilitator for evil people to do evil things. (read more)
Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8’s John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre (read more)
This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through film, music, dance and art, to local audiences. (read more)
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