Top 10 Shows of 2018
Our top 10 picks from 2018 encapsulate the huge variety of shows we’ve seen this year. There’s been immersive theatre, gig theatre, adaptations and musicals; shows about Elizabethan alchemists, dastardly […]
Our top 10 picks from 2018 encapsulate the huge variety of shows we’ve seen this year. There’s been immersive theatre, gig theatre, adaptations and musicals; shows about Elizabethan alchemists, dastardly […]
The supermarkets have stocked up on mince pies, and soon every radio station will be playing Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic on a loop. So, here are some highlights from across […]
Written by Flossie Waite A few years ago, a contributor sent me a review of a concert for babies that she had attended with her child. Almost the entire word […]
From a festival exploring how technology shapes our lives, to adaptations of poems, picturebooks and fairytales young and old, to space bunnies, bees and a star-seeking puppy, May half term […]
It doesn’t feel that long ago that we were all knee-deep in Christmas tins of Quality Street, and yet here we are with hot cross buns in the shops, and […]
“Watching something like that just makes me want to immediately go and create something,” another delegate tells me at the end of BonteHond’s iPet, a play which combines magic tricks, […]
Though Little Red Riding Hood is the oldest show at this year’s TakeOff Festival, this is the first time it is being presented in the UK. Created by Italian company […]
At 30 years young, TakeOff Festival is doing what it always has: proving productions for young audiences are profound, unpredictable, hilarious and exciting. Puppet musicals with singing books can be […]
In 1876 Lewis Carroll – the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford – who was also an avid reader and writer of poetry, published […]
Out of the corner of my eye, I can see that the group of men formerly tucked away in the newspaper section of Highfields Library have inched closer to join […]