Arts of the UK 2021: Sunday Soul concerts return to Chiswick Playhouse alongside Chiswick Playhouse Recharged

LONDON – After a successful run in December, the amazing Sunday Soul concert series will return to Chiswick Playhouse as part of the already announced Recharged Festival. Sunday Soul see musical theatre stars dig deep and explore music that feeds the soul in these intimate gigs. Performers include Ellie Clayton, Ahmed Hamad, Shanay Holmes, Steph Parry, Sharon Rose and Shaq Taylor. Currently playing Eliza Hamilton in … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Sunday Soul concerts return to Chiswick Playhouse alongside Chiswick Playhouse Recharged

Arts of the UK 2021: Brighton Fringe returns with hybrid model for audiences to enjoy around the country

LONDON –  2019 was record-breaking for Brighton Fringe with over 600,000 attendees, while 2020 saw the Festival explore digital performance for the first time. Now, for 2021, England’s largest arts festival is back with the most exciting and unusual cabaret, circus and comedy, dance, drama and drag! In the spirit of invention that has always inspired the Fringe, this year will be a hybrid festival … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Brighton Fringe returns with hybrid model for audiences to enjoy around the country

Arts of the UK 2021: Alexandra Burke to star as ‘The Narrator’ in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

LONDON – Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group are delighted to announce today that Alexandra Burke will return to the West End this summer in the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary musical gets ready for a strictly limited season at the iconic London Palladium. The production will begin performances on Thursday 1st July and will be one of the … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: Alexandra Burke to star as ‘The Narrator’ in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

Arts of the UK 2021: The final films in Talawa’s Tales from the Front Line series released

LONDON – The final films in Talawa Theatre Company’s urgent and compelling online series, Tales from the Front Line, will be released on their website at midday on Monday 26th April. This powerful series used verbatim interviews with Black key workers to explore their relationships with British society, and the impact that the Windrush Scandal, the global Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic has had … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2021: The final films in Talawa’s Tales from the Front Line series released

★★★☆☆ Review: No Regrets – A Tribute to Edith Piaf by Sing’theatre

Showing off local talents in this tribute to the French icon and celebrating Sing’theatre’s 15th anniversary. Even outside of France, Edith Piaf established herself as a cultural icon, with her soulful, emotive chansons, and powerful vocals. But her life was never easy, faced with countless challenges that attempted to thwart her at every moment. It is thus a testament to her resilience that she made it … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: No Regrets – A Tribute to Edith Piaf by Sing’theatre

Preview: Strike! Digital Festival 2021

After a tumultuous 2020 for the arts scene, live performances are finally coming back as social distancing measures begin to ease up. But with limited seating in venues, staging a live show is simply not as feasible for smaller arts companies, especially for those used to operating in smaller venues such as black boxes and studio spaces. A black box such as the 120-seater Drama … Continue reading Preview: Strike! Digital Festival 2021

Preview: Festival House returns for SIFA 2021, with focus on healing and humanity

When Gaurav Kripalani took on the role of Festival Director for the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), he introduced the concept of the Festival House, a central location in the heart of the city, where festival-goers could gather for a drink, talk to each other, and take in the wonder of the performance they had just witnessed. After the festival went on hiatus last … Continue reading Preview: Festival House returns for SIFA 2021, with focus on healing and humanity

No Regrets: An Interview with Nathalie Ribette, Artistic Director of Sing’theatre

Edith Piaf has been through some difficult times in her life. Abandoned by her mother at birth, Piaf was brought up by her grandmother in a brothel, suffered temporary blindness due to meningitis complications, earned little money as a street singer, and lost her first daughter just two years after she was born. But from the darkness springs hope, as she went on to become … Continue reading No Regrets: An Interview with Nathalie Ribette, Artistic Director of Sing’theatre

Arts of Hong Kong 2021: HKRep announce 2021-22 season

The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKRep) has announced their brand new theatre season for 2021–22 theatre season. Themed “Theatre Returns to Life”, the company enters the new season with the hope of the pandemic receding and the public embracing the theatre again. Season highlights include August Strindberg classic work To Damascus, Part One, Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, new works The Finale of Mr. AD and Ambiguous, the second … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2021: HKRep announce 2021-22 season

★★★★☆ Review: Model Citizens (2021) by The Necessary Stage

Women without men. Singapore is a nation that has always been proud of its pristine city, seemingly flawless to the rest of the world. But underneath its facade lies a tangled mass of quashed tensions, constantly threatening to break past the surface.  Such is the case in The Necessary Stage’s (TNS) Model Citizens, where a Member of Parliament (MP) is stabbed by an unhappy citizen, … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Model Citizens (2021) by The Necessary Stage