There will be a weeklong youth takeover at the New Theatre, Cardiff this summer as young people aged 14-25 are…
Lewis Carroll’s much loved nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark, coming to Sherman, Cardiff
July 7, 2016Lewis Carroll’s much loved nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark is to be performed by a cast of actor-musicians at…
What makes a good Wales Musical?
June 30, 201610 Minute Musicals / Open Space, in the first week of July and is run by Leeway Productions, a new…
Falstaff, RWCM&D at Sherman, Cardiff
June 29, 2016I cannot remember seeing conductor Carlo Rizzi smiling so much when taking a curtain call as at the end of…
The Last Mermaid, Charlotte Church, Festival of Voice, WMC, Cardiff
June 11, 2016Charlotte Church transforms from Voice of an Angel to Voice of an Angel Fish – well, Mermaid – in this family…
Opera for the Unknown Woman, Festival of Voice, WMC, Cardiff
June 11, 2016Opera for the Unknown Woman – the title alone makes my heart sink. Not one for being barracked, I lack…
Patrick Jones’s Before I Leave, Sherman, Cardiff
June 11, 2016Each May for the last decade Wales has held the Gwanwyn Festival, celebrating creativity in older age, which provides an…
Dance Roads, Chapter, Cardiff
June 8, 2016Dance takes many forms and, in a mixed programme of five works from choreographers from across Europe, diversity and degrees…
Five punchy choreographers’ Dance Roads lead to Cardiff
June 7, 2016Five exciting and innovative dance-makers are heading for Wales with a fistful of punchy new works. The choreographers from Wales,…
In Parenthesis, WNO
May 15, 2016Iain Bell’s score in the seemingly impossible adaptation of David Jones’ In Parenthesis is theatrical and vigorous while as a…