Performing Arts
Funding crisis hits publishing
At first glance the announcement by the Arts Council England (ACE) just before Christmas last year that they intended to…
REVIEW: La Cage Aux Folles, Menier Chocolate Factory
REVIEW: The musical, La Cage Aux Folles, is based on the French play by Jean Poiret of the same name…
REVIEW: Can't Pay? Won't Pay! The Oldham Coliseum Theatre
REVIEW: The Oldham Coliseum is one of the North West’s most dynamic Repertory Theatre Companies. This entertaining and thought provoking…
REVIEW: Happy Now? National Theatre
REVIEW: Happy Now? Is this an instruction? A command? A desire? A plea? The title of Lucinda Coxon’s latest play…
Career profile: Ted Underwood, poet
Ted Underwood hasn't been writing long, but he has already built up a strong reputation as a performance poet and…
REVIEW: The Sleeping Beauty, Scottish Ballet
REVIEW: Scottish Ballet’s touring mammoth touring production ends its run at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. It is a major…
REVIEW: The Iceberg, en masse theatre
REVIEW: In the last five years, North West based en masse theatre has won two prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First awards.…
Consumer power at the box office
The importance of the first weekend on a films theatrical life-span and general success is overwhelming…
Hey Mr Producer
What do producers look like? An audience will be instantly familiar with the actor, writer, director, designer, or composer who…
Crocodile tears? The Luvvie that cried wolf
Opinionated? Very. Controversial? Certainly. Moogee the Art Dog is back, growling from his corner of the art world about funding.…