Llais is proudly part of Cardiff Music City Festival: a two week-long celebration of gigs, happenings, talks, installations and pop-ups,…
Rehearsal images from Nye’s 2025 revival
June 23, 2025An exclusive first look at rehearsals for the hugely anticipated Nye, starring Michael Sheen, has been been released by The…
& Juliet, Wales Millennium Centre
June 17, 2025How many times, and in how many variations, has Romeo and Juliet been retold? Attempts to shoehorn a feminist interpretation into a…
Hamilton, Wales Millennium Centre
November 30, 2024There was a real buzz in the WMC on Friday night for the performance of the celebrated musical Hamilton. Essentially…
Rigoletto, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre
September 22, 2024For one of the best-known and most frequently staged of Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto can prove at times quite frustrating. There is a…
Hairsprays at Wales Millennium Centre
August 1, 2024I’m a big fan of John Waters’ film Hairspray. I remember well going to see it on its release in…
Il Trittico, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre
June 16, 2024Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…
Nye: theatre of hagiography
June 8, 2024A national icon, playing a national icon, about a national icon can make for some heavy adulation. I suspect some…
Nye, National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre
May 22, 2024**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…
First artists named for Llais 2024
May 8, 2024Wales Millennium Centre has announced the first confirmed acts for LLAIS (9–13 October 2024). Artists incldue Cate Le Bon, South…