Shaun Tougher, Author at Art Scene in Wales

Top Hat the Musical, Wales Millennium Centre

I am not sure if I have ever actually seen the 1935 film Top Hat, but it is well known...

It was an unusual experience to be seeing an opera in Cardiff not by the WNO and not in the...

There was a real buzz in the WMC on Friday night for the performance of the celebrated musical Hamilton. Essentially...

I’m a big fan of John Waters’ film Hairspray. I remember well going to see it on its release in...

In Opera Favourites WNO’s Orchestra and Chorus took centre stage. The audience was treated to a diverse programme of familiar...

In recent months the WNO has served up wonderful innovative productions: Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. As part...

I was looking forward to seeing Mother Goose enormously. This production had attracted a lot of press attention when it...

This musical is based on the hugely successful film of 1992, directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann (though the film...

Despite attending WNO productions in Cardiff for over twenty years this was the first time I have seen their staging...

Any performance by National Dance Company Wales is to be keenly anticipated. They have established a reputation for quirky, delightful...