Performing Arts
How to run a leading festival with one full-time staff member
It’s been described as the nearest thing the Belfast Festival has to a “fringe” even though it takes place several…
Finding The Moment
Michael David Jones is in the running to be part of Birmingham's FIERCE festival with The Moment Before We Kiss,…
REVIEW: Testing the Echo, Tricycle Theatre, London
REVIEW: Testing the Echo is one of those plays where you only find out what the title refers to halfway…
Into the Interval?
David Trennery tackles the contentious issue of the interval: overpriced drinks, bad acting, sullen drama student staff, long toilet queues…
REVIEW: The Vortex, Apollo Theatre, London
REVIEW: Noel Coward needs no introduction, and Felicity Kendal only needs a tiny one, to make sure you don’t remember…
REVIEW: Days Of Significance, Tricycle, London
REVIEW: There is no interval and scarcely any break in the searing intensity of the subject matter, language and violence.…
Pay Attention – asking for and getting that increase in pay
It's that time of year – Spring is here along with the start of the new financial year. You're looking…
Strangelove
I'm not a war correspondent. I'm a comedian. Sometimes though, if I'm lucky I get to listen to my jokes…
REVIEW: Jonah and Otto, The Royal Exchange Theatre
REVIEW: Like a good meal, Jonah and Otto is a play that should be savoured and ideally seen more than…
REVIEW: Major Barbara, National Theatre
REVIEW: Unless it’s a singalong with Martine McCutcheon’s Eliza Dolittle, George Bernard Shaw’s works are often bracketed as set text…