My only experience of dance previous to this show was watching Step Up repeatedly throughout my teenage years (mainly due to Channing Tatum’s involvement) and the one street dance lesson that ensued. I therefore felt […]
Theatre | Brand New Ancients – fierce and electric spoken word
Image: Kate Tempest Kate Tempest’s spoken word epic takes its audience on an intense journey, exploring the influence that love, hatred and regret play in creating modern day heroes, villains and victims. Intricately designed lighting […]
Theatre Simulcast | War Horse – A truly landmark production
Image: National Theatre One hundred years on from the start of the Great War provides the perfect time for the National Theatre to bring their ground breaking show War Horse, adapted from the wonderful book […]
Opera|Girl of the Golden West – The very first spaghetti western
Image: Opera North Critic Sir Christopher Frayling said that ‘…it was Giacomo Puccini who wrote the first Spaghetti Western worthy of the name…’ and it’s a proper old fashioned western of saloon brawls, poker games […]
Theatre | The Laramie Project – stage@leeds' company's successful debut
Image: stage@leeds The Laramie Project is a piece of verbatim theatre written by Moises Kaufman, in memory and response to the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. A unique way […]
Theatre | Ghost Town – Interview with Jessica Fisher
Ghost Town, York Theatre Royal’s latest offering by resident theatre company Pilot Theatre, takes a poignant look at mental illness through the lens of younger audiences. It’s award-winning playwright, Jessica Fisher, talks to LSi about […]
Theatre | Refugee Boy – a seamless production
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse At the level of individuals, politics can be a prison. It binds ethnicities to boundaries, families to states and its victims are those who remain caught between its narrowly and neatly […]
Theatre | Coriolanus Simulcast – Tom Hiddleston on top form
Image: Donmar Warehouse A production of one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays staged in a warehouse used for banana ripening sounds like it shouldn’t work. Broadcast the production live to cinemas around the country and […]
Theatre | Some Girl I Used to Know – Denise Van Outen goes solo
Image: The Guardian The words ‘one woman show’ immediately conjure up that episode of Friends where Chandler is tricked into watching an angry performance of Why Don’t You Like Me. Fortunately for us though, Denise […]
Theatre | LAPSE at stage@leeds – Original student drama success
Image: stage@leeds When going to see a new piece of student writing, expectations are mixed. The excitement of fresh work is regrettably tinged with an apprehension about the potential cringing that it might induce. Thankfully, […]
Theatre | The Elixir of Love – Truly delightful
Image: LUU Opera Society 4/5 Stars While Gaetano Donizetti only took some six weeks to compose his opera ‘L’elisir D’amore’, it took Opera Society’s production team much longer to transform the 19th-century classic into an […]
Gielgud Theatre, London | Strangers on a Train – Good, but not Hitchcock
Image: Gielgud Theatre With stage decorations to fill any design student’s wildest dream, Strangers on a Train is not only a tense, emotive and dynamic play but a visual spectacle to remember. Based on Patricia […]