Arts and Entertainment Archive

Where to start? There is so much to enjoy in Debra Oswald’s frank, funny and very personal account of what it’s like to be a writer. From her first thoughts as a child:  ‘I’ll never be a writer, I live in Carlingford …

For this Tony Award-winning show, a musical play about the life of jazz great Billie Holiday, the Belvoir stage has been transformed into a Philadelphia cabaret club, dark and perhaps a little rundown, and complete with a cluster of café tables and …

The Summer of Harold encompasses three delightful short plays from the sharp and witty pen of playwright Hilary Bell, and each one is brought vividly to life by the combined talents of Hannah Waterman and Berynn Schwerdt. But before we even hear …

Greek tragedy is referenced more than once in Nina Raine’s hugely enjoyable and clever Consent, a play that skewers elements of the justice system as it explores a rape case and the question of what is sexual consent? In this production at …

Billed as ‘immersive and thought-provoking’, this production is a series of vignettes – some 50 short scenes in all – that details attitudes to, consequences of and the potential horror climate change could unleash both now and in the relatively near future. The …

In the sultry heat of a summer in the American south, among a garden full of Venus fly traps and ferns, Violet Venable (Belinda Giblin) cannot rest. Her beloved son Sebastian – a poet, an artistic soul apparently without fault – died …

Billed as an ‘oh, so crass, one-woman crusade’, Eloise Snape’s debut play Pony is also a hilarious (and so on point) depiction of the one-way, life-changing journey into motherhood. Hazel (Briallen Clarke) is pregnant. She is also delusional, in denial and doing …

With Tina Turner’s mega-hit songs buzzing in my head, it’s hard to resist calling this musical ‘simply the best’. But on the other hand, credit where credit is due: with Ruva Ngwenya belting out such classics as ‘Proud Mary’ and shimmying across …

The story behind the musical of La Cage aux Folles, derived from Jean Poiret’s 1973 French play, is that family should stick together, no matter what. Simple enough, except that the family in question is a gay couple – Georges (Michael Cormick), …

  Once upon a time… so begins Peter Carroll, suavely dressed in black and white, in his role as Narrator in Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 musical that takes characters from such Grimm fairytales as Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and …