Mark Rees, Author at Art Scene in Wales

Waitress, Wales Millennium Centre

*** There’s something instantly welcoming about Joe’s Pie Diner, the principal setting when the curtain rises on bittersweet touring musical...

P.T. Barnum is credited with coining the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute”, and in watching a musical about...

Converting a cult film to the stage is always a juggling act. By its very nature, it’s trading on nostalgia...

Swansea Grand Theatre In 2011, when Michael Sheen emerged from the fish-freezing waters of Aberavon at the start of National...

Wales Millennium Centre When I first heard a new play called Single White Female – based on the 1992 Bridget...

Pantomime has a curious habit of sidelining its own title characters. Despite their names being splashed across posters and tickets,...

The Haunting of Blaine Manor has all the ingredients of a classic ghost story: flickering candles, shadowy corners and a...

As Swansea basked in sweltering sunshine, the snow was falling inside the Grand Theatre as Ellen Kent’s touring production of...

If the stories are to be believed, Swansea Grand Theatre is haunted by a “white lady” with a direct link...

Mark Rees Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is not for the faint-hearted. A tale of political betrayal, violence and revenge, it is...