Television Time: BBC Shows – October 2020

October on the BBC means a new slew of shows to suit audience members of all backgrounds, and a perfect end to a long day at work. For starters, satisfy the inner sleuth in you as crime drama – Grantchester returns for a brand new season this month. With new mysteries and secrets surfacing in their little town of Cambridgeshire, Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) and … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows – October 2020

Arts of the UK 2020: Bush Theatre announces their autumn 2020 season

LONDON – Since re-opening in March 2017 after a year-long £4.3 million renovation, London’s Bush Theatre has emerged as an all-inclusive theatre gaining renown for its powerhouse new writing, thanks to its talent development programmes and thought provoking stage shows. Even with the difficulties brought on by the pandemic, the Bush Theatre has continued to support the most exciting new artists for nearly 50 years and is … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Bush Theatre announces their autumn 2020 season

Arts of the UK 2021: Rocks of Ages opens at Portsmouth Kings Theatre in May 2021

Photo Credit: Richard Davenport LONDON – Following a sell-out tour in 2018/19, Dan Looney, Adam Paulden, Jason Haigh-Ellery and Richard Klin for DLAP Entertainment are delighted to announce that the award-winning smash-hit musical Rock of Ages will return to tour the UK opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre on 2nd May 2021. Rock of Ages is an LA love story lavished with over 25 classic rock anthems. Lose yourself … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Rocks of Ages opens at Portsmouth Kings Theatre in May 2021

Arts of the UK 2020: Bush Theatre celebrates Black History Month 2020

LONDON – The Bush Theatre celebrates Black History Month 2020 with new programmes honouring and showcasing black artists, including a series of videos titled Advice to my Younger Self, an online interview with Julie Spencer, Director of the School of Acting at Arts Ed, and an online and in-person Q&A with Mika Johnson, writer of Pink Lemonade. “For generations, countless people from the African diaspora have … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Bush Theatre celebrates Black History Month 2020

Arts of the UK 2020: The New Tomorrow at the Young Vic (Preview)

LONDON – Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, has announced the cast of The New Tomorrow, a weekend of pop-up performances celebrating the Young Vic’s 50th birthday. The New Tomorrow – the first piece of live theatre at the Young Vic since the pandemic closed UK theatres in March – will interrogate the change that has come and is coming, and what the next 50 years might hold. Directed … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: The New Tomorrow at the Young Vic (Preview)

Arts of the UK 2020: Lachlan Goudie’s Once Upon A Time at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (Preview)

EDINBURGH – Lachlan Goudie’s forthcoming exhibition at The Scottish Gallery presents a new collection of works, inspired by places that are, or at least may have recently felt far far away. The works bring fairy tales to life, with landscapes and still lifes that are designed to make you daydream. Goudie had originally intended to spend time painting in Mauritius and the Arctic, producing a … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Lachlan Goudie’s Once Upon A Time at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (Preview)

Television Time: An Interview with Tom Hollander, star of David Nicholls’ ‘Us’ on BBC

A screenwriter by profession, it makes sense that author David Nicholls would be the one to adapt his own novel for the screen, something he’d previously done with the film One Day in 2011. Now, he’s back again with an adaptation of his Man Booker longlisted novel Us as a television miniseries for the BBC. But where One Day was about the beginning ‘will they, won’t they’ of a budding … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Tom Hollander, star of David Nicholls’ ‘Us’ on BBC

Television Time: StarHub and Bundesliga International bring German football to Singapore with multi-year broadcast deal

Homegrown communications company StarHub and Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, have agreed to a new multi-year deal to air Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 matches in Singapore. Football fans can now look forward to the full Bundesliga experience, with the German Supercup and crucial end-of-season promotion/relegation play-off matches, also being broadcast in addition to the league matches, only on StarHub. StarHub is … Continue reading Television Time: StarHub and Bundesliga International bring German football to Singapore with multi-year broadcast deal

Arts of the UK 2021: Revolutionary production Mr. Adam to make its UK premiere at The O2 in 2021

LONDON – Coming to the O2 this March for its UK premiere, Mr. Adam is a dynamically modern multi-arts cross-media extravaganza. The work of Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins has been transformed into a narrative piece by Kairat Kulbaev, Marat Bisengaliev, Vasily Barkhatov, and The Almaty Symphony Orchestra, who have combined digital design with powerful performance for a classical concert like no other! The production integrates … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Revolutionary production Mr. Adam to make its UK premiere at The O2 in 2021

Arts of the UK 2020: Elephant’s Graveyard by The Production Exchange (Preview)

LONDON – A circus longing to be famous meets a tiny town in Tennessee that wants something to break the monotony – in the end both get what they wish for with deadly results. The true tale of the only known lynching of an elephant, the award-winning Elephant’s Graveyard will be available to stream from Thursday 17th September. Set in September of 1914, the play combines … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2020: Elephant’s Graveyard by The Production Exchange (Preview)