The Taming of the Shrew: It’s Shakespeare… but Woke
A witty, tongue-in-cheek adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic reimagines 16th century Padua as a matriarchy, challenging sexist assumptions
The Music of the Night
A joyful celebration of musical theatre
The Mikado - Stylish Set, Passé Plot
3.5 stars The Mikado is perhaps the most well-known of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Victorian-era comic operas, famously set in Japan. Why Japan, one might wonder? Back in 1885, it was all about keeping political satire hidden in plain sight. By setting their scenes in fantastical or
The Lowdown on BBC Introducing LIVE
For twelve years BBC Introducing has been helping upcoming artists break into the industry. Every year the BBC holds an event (BBC Introducing LIVE), a relative candy shop for musicians to get insider information from the insiders themselves. Alumni of the service include Little Simz, Ed Sheeran, and George Ezra,
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
A show bound to make you pine for a relationship or send you running scared
Harry Potter in Concert: A Magical Musical Evening
5 stars Imagine your favourite movie – any movie. Now, imagine it again without the music and its iconic soundtrack: it would simply not be the same. Music is a huge part of creating a film’s atmosphere, creating the right ambience and enhancing the emotional tug of the moment. And
FEET OF CLAY (Some More Rap Songs)
Earl Sweatshirt is back, less than a year after his last release, with an EP as free form and abstract as his last album. Music writer Louie Ghalib weighs in.
DramSoc Presents: Macbeth
Double, double, toil and trouble
Denis Sulta takes us to the Xanadu of dance
4 stars We turn the corner, the gray lake at Canada Water still at the back of our minds. It’s pouring it down, and the group consensus is that we won’t miss the outside world for the next 10 hours. We’re going into the void. That is
Death of a Salesman
The stellar cast unfortunately fails to sell the classic script
Days of Abandon: Shimmering Sounds Tinged with Sad Mopery
5 stars In their third album, Days of Abandon, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart almost ditched their last album’s heart bursting intensity. Frontman Kip Berman, once a starry-eyed “heart on his sleeve” daydreamer serenading anyone in earshot, now sounds like a young romantic who has seen
Big Thief steal the top spot with ‘Not’
4 stars I recently discovered a a new personalized playlist Spotify creates called “On Repeat”. As the name suggests, this contains the 30 songs you’ve been playing most over the last 30 days. While this initially served as a slightly unnerving reminder of the reams of data I willingly