Performing Arts
Feeling the Festival Fever? The best of the August Arts Fests
The month of the summer festival is officially here! Although we might not be able to rely on sunny days…
REVIEW: The Big Chill – A Festival For All Senses
After my arrival on Friday night, my first point of interest was the Art Trail. At first I thought it…
Two Peas in a Pod - Mike Leigh & Alfred Hitchcock
When Mike Leigh first uttered his expletives against Alfred Hitchcock`s Frenzy at the 2006 London Film Festival seminar on London…
THEATRE REVIEW: Timon of Athens (Globe Theatre)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company refer to some of the Bard’s minor works as ‘hardly crap at all’ and reviewers and…
THEATRE REVIEW: Let there be love in (The Tricycle)
It is often lazily said that, whilst the Victorians could not bring themselves to acknowledge sex, they were quite happy…
THEATRE REVIEW: A Winter's Tale (The Globe)
A Winter’s Tale is a strange play. It is a comedy in that it ends with a wedding but the…
COLUMN: Talking about the e-book
Everyone is talking about the e-book reader. Most are ranting about it, some are cautiously praising it, a brave few…
Apprenticed to a Future: a new way into the creative sector?
The Draft Apprenticeships Bill, recently launched, is nothing if not ambitious. The Bill aims to ‘establish a statutory basis for…
Action for Children's Arts launches Manifesto
Action for Children’s Arts, the UK's umbrella body on behalf of all arts organizations providing arts for and working with…
REVIEW: Loveparade Dortmund Germany
The Loveparade? In Dortmund?? I couldn’t believe it when I learnt about two years ago that the legendary yearly rave…