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What is going on? I really don't know. Ok, so drawing the birds are one thing. Now it's the dogs. Another friend has asked me to do his dogs (cheers Simon). Birds were relatively easy to do. The dogs, well, they are trickier. They've got four legs…

Not just birds and Bottomley!

As you may know, I've added birds to my art portfolio. For good reason, I've been commissioned to produce some teaching cards of different emotions, featuring said cartoon birds. The cards are finished, and about to go to the printers! Exciting. They…

Let the Birds Take Flight!

19th February 2023 A couple of weeks back, I had a moment! Now, looking back, I wish I had gone through with it. Although, I think everyone would have thought I was crazy. (Yes, I know, some of you will say I already am!) I was on a train heading…

I wish I had done...

The latest Bottomley By the Sea artwork heads down Fruity street. Poor Stan looks like he's in a spot of bother, and Mrs Treves is about to slip up! This was a lot of fun, and I wasn't really sure where I was going with this one. I like that you can…

Along fruity street!

It's Elvis Convention day! Welcome to the first in a new series of drawings based around a fictitious seaside town, Bottomley By The Sea. I decided to start with this idea, which had been swirling around my head for a while. You'll see I've started…

Welcome to Bottomley By The Sea

11th January 2023 - Week 1 in Japan Here I am then, back in my old stomping ground! Or should that be the second home? Hell, the jetlag is terrible this time. I’ve known nothing like it. My eyes were hurting this time through lack of sleep. Not…

I'm not having a go but...

Ok, so I'm giving this art thing a real go now. Christmas cards are one thing, but this, well it's different. Speaking of the Christmas cards, fancy some? Head to my store for that, and keep this little idea in mind. It may well have some legs in it.…

It's a little different! Vouchering all the way

I've been busy in the art lab, getting these ready for Christmas. If you'd like to order a set, then please head to my art store on Etsy.com or message me here. Lots of new ideas in the pipeline, so keep those eyes peeled. Shop: GavinDarvellArt on…

Ding dong merrily on high! Christmas Postcards

I've recently done a commissioned art piece. Now, they are words I never thought I'd write. I have thought, and I thought I'd give you readers, followers and supporters (thank you), a little behind-the-scenes rundown of what I did, and why.…

Music, art and Shaggy from Scooby Doo too!

27th October Ah, it’s good to be back among old friends. And what a joyous bunch they are. I mean, I don’t know them personally, and they don’t physically exist, other than the image I’ve created in my tiny brain. That though matters not. They are…

Back with old friends

It's done! Halloween-themed and all! Am I happy with it? Well, yes I suppose I am. As always I can find things I don't like, bits I've missed, and parts I should have added to. However, this was a bit of a departure from the others I've featured…

Arting Halloweeny Styles

September 24th Ah, it’s good to be back among family, albeit I know none of them! A strange way to start a review, but it’s important, and will give some context to the night that was to unfold. Like most people, you have your favourite bands,…

AHBID Gig Review: Marillion at Waterside Theatre Aylesbury

It's finished! I need to leave it alone now as every white space makes me want to add something! There's a lot going on in this one again, and a lot of pink pigs and yellow rabbits! I'm pleased with some aspects of the drawing, although the colouring…

A masterpiece? I'll let you decide

It's the second episode of my 50 Shades of Rambling On series. In this episode I talk about how I became a coffee snob, my love for the band Marillion, and in the diary reading get a bit down about life. Not much seems to have changed there then! Oh,…

Series 3 Episode 2: I'm just a coffee snob!

My latest artwork is starting to take shape now. Details are being added, although as with all my most recent pieces, I have no idea what will be included! It really is whatever is on my mind at the time of sketching. I've decided with this one to…

Artwork Update - Zooming in

Back to the podcast, reading the blogs and waffling on about it all. I'm looking into Marillion's latest album (An Hour Before It's Dark), moaning about life and being a coffee snob! Well, what more could you ask for?

Chatting With Chuckles Podcast - Cafe Blues

25th August Where in the world has August gone? One minute it’s the beginning of the month and we’re all sweating with the heat, the next it’s the last week and the bank holiday has arrived! I’m really not sure what happened to the middle part. Is…

Reunions

Crumbs, these things take so long to finish! I am slow mind you. Here then is the latest artwork, inspired in part by the canal. That was my starting point and what followed thereafter, that's entirely whatever I felt at the time. There are a few…

The Canal Scene - New Artwork

August 9th I’ve just slipped some Dan onto the sound system, and the room is a cacophony of luscious melodies and harmonies. I’m talking about Steely Dan and their album Aja. 50 odd, glorious minutes of jazz-rock fuelled sounds. Perfect for a day…

Life without the Dan - You’ve got to be kidding

It's been a loooong time! Matters not I'm back and over the course of the next few weeks Chatting will morph into 50 Shades of Rambling On. Today's is as an re-intro really, and reading and adding further comments about the 50 Shades of Rambling on…

50 Shades of Rambling On about... An Introduction

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Soulful and thoughtful, the concert combined a cappella singing with large-scale photographic projections Elektra Women’s Choir was reviwed on March 10 at Pacific Spirit United Church FOR THOSE OF us who only recently began venturing back to see live…

Music review: Elektra Women’s Choir stirs up collective emotions in Humanity

The Arts Club’s take on Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of the Jane Austen classic is delightfully playful The Arts Club Theatre Company presents at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to April 2 DRAMA CAN PROVOKE deep emotions, challenge authority,…

Theatre Review: Sense and Sensibility delivers frothy, boisterous fun

Author of Overture of Hope put her investigative-journalism skills to work in researching the women’s overlooked history The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival (February 11 to 16) presents Opera in Times of War: Isabel Vincent, the closing event,…

Isabel Vincent shares story of opera-loving British sisters who saved Jewish musicians from the Nazis at JCC Jewish Book Festival

The Arts Club and Theatre Calgary’s joint production of Mark Sakamoto’s acclaimed memoir proves deeply moving—with the occasional guffaw Arts Club Theatre Company and Theatre Calgary present at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until February 12…

Theatre review: Forgiveness is an actorly feat of endurance and artistry

Moving encore of Bach’s aching “Sarabande” was dedicated to the late Maestro Bramwell Tovey The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presented Hilary Hahn at the Orpheum on January 13 and 14 IN 2008, HILARY HAHN stepped onto the Orpheum stage for her…

Music review: String star Hilary Hahn brings lyricism and clarity to Sibelius’s beloved Violin Concerto in D Minor with the VSO

Incredible true story of Japan vice-consul’s Second World War bravery offers hope in dark times Courage Now by Manami Hara, at the Firehall Arts Centre until December 4. THERE WERE GHOSTS in the Firehall Arts Centre for the opening night of Manami…

Theatre review: Manami Hara's astonishing Courage Now deftly interweaves past and present

Earlier this year, we asked our teaching faculty to tell us who among them were offering innovative learning experiences, environments, and/or introducing new ways of overcoming barriers in their classes. This is part one in a six-part series…

Accounting. Marketing. Leadership. Lego?

Earlier this year, we asked our teaching faculty to tell us who among them were offering innovative learning experiences, environments, and/or introducing new ways of overcoming barriers in their classes. This is part five in a six-part series…

Making the case for open-access law texts

People, ideas and actions for a better world Our coastal marine ecosystems are changing rapidly—and some species are moving on Perhaps no animal is more iconic to BC than the sockeye salmon. For millennia, it’s been part of the history, livelihood…

BC is facing a steep decline in sockeye salmon

Dr. William Cheung, director of UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and UBC zoology professor Dr. Christopher Harley offer ideas for taking action In the face of declining fish stocks like sockeye salmon, marine heatwaves and massive…

5 things you can do to help BC’s marine ecosystems

People, ideas and actions for a better world UBC experts say we don’t yet have a handle on how much artificial intelligence should be allowed to influence consumer behaviour A ripple of concern reverberated among privacy advocates earlier this year…

How much privacy is there in the age of AI and the metaverse?

Cheez Whiz: A love story I don’t remember the first time I tasted Cheez Whiz, nor where I was when it happened. What I do know for certain is that it could not have occurred in my Vancouver childhood home where my mother, a hippy-esque Belgian,…

Cheez Whiz: A love story

People, ideas and actions for a better world Crypto assets and the mechanisms that support them can seem, well, cryptic. Dr. Zehua Wang, adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC and part of the Blockchain@UBC…

Understanding blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs

People, ideas and actions for a better world Investing in Bitcoin and NFTs comes with financial risks—and environmental costs Matt Damon is appearing in crypto-exchange commercials, Jimmy Fallon is gushing over “bored ape” NFTs and Gwyneth Paltrow is…

What you might not know about cryptocurrencies

 Experts say we need to normalize the conversation, as we’ve done with other health conditions Attitudes around mental health have undergone a seismic shift in recent years, with celebrities, politicians and advocates openly and compassionately…

Why addressing stigma around substance use matters

This is part two in a series recognizing faculty and staff who are supporting UBC’s transition back to campus. In this update, we showcase the efforts of our colleagues who are working on HVAC systems to ensure safe building ventilation on…

UBC’s HVAC teams are making sure we can breathe easy

DNA sequencing is creating a new age of health and medicine that is more personalized and targeted than ever before
Sitting in an office cluttered with books and papers, Dr. Terry Snutch, professor at UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories and Djavad…

How genomics is changing health care

This is part one in a series recognizing faculty and staff who are supporting UBC’s transition back to campus. In this update, we share the efforts of our colleagues behind UBC Vancouver’s COVID-19 rapid testing clinic.
For more information, contact…

UBC community supports COVID-19 research with rapid antigen testing clinic

Story contributed by Jess Werb
Candice Loring, director of business development with Mitacs, surmounted incredible odds to achieve both academic and professional success. From her start at UBC’s Okanagan campus as a self-professed 27-year-old…

Candice Loring: Indigenous advocate and champion of innovation

Israeli-Palestinian tensions and intergenerational trauma make for an unlikely romantic-comedy setting
The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival presents Kiss Me Kosher from March 4 to 14
THERE’S A FAMOUS line in a Fawlty Towers episode, when John Cleese’s…

Film review: Subversively fun Kiss Me Kosher sets love amid a powder keg — Stir

Alternating white and pale gray 8.7 centimeter-wide stripes arranged in a mesmerizing geometric design are reflected in mirrors to magnify the dynamic space, broaden our perspective and depth perception, and create echoes. We’re drawn into an…

Clever Design, Brilliant Lighting, Thoughtful Curation, Enhance Elegance, Appreciation Of Modern, Contemporary Highlights At TEFAF-Maastricht

Kehinde Wiley’s exquisite, monumental Portrait of Tarek Ali Ellis (2023) sold to a private collector for $950,000, underscoring Sean Kelly of New York’s phenomenal debut at Europe’s preeminent global art fair. Read more about the portrait and the…

TEFAF-Maastricht Celebrates Stellar Sales To Museums And Private Collectors, Including Contemporary Blockbusters That Captured My Gaze During Previews

John Stobart depicted the Golden Age of Sail with meticulous attention to detail, each brushstroke drawing us closer into maritime history navigated by his keen eye for key port cities around the world. Leicester, England-born Stobart, whose…

Celebrating The Luminous Legacy Of Preeminent Maritime Painter John Stobart

Clad in a pale blue Converse jumpsuit adorned with a lapel pin of a baby and exposing a neck tattoo, American YouTuber Tarek Ali Ellis cradles Michael Morgan in his arms. Ellis gazes at the viewer, conveying heroism with his embrace of a vulnerable…

Large-Scale Contemporary Artworks Astound At TEFAF-Maastricht

An oversized set of clenched teeth outlined in red squiggly lips along with three eyes comprise a face, the mouth repeated as a smaller motif along with what could be clusters of googly eyes. The totemic figure fluidly blends abstraction and…

Sotheby’s ‘Contemporary Discoveries’ Showcases Works From Wide Array Of Masters And Artists To Collect Now, Such As Móyòsóré Martins

We gaze into the pensive eyes of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, engaging with the childhood innocence that persisted even as the prolific master’s life and career were cut short at age 27. Mustard seed replicates the texture of the Puerto…

Four Remarkable Emerging Black Artists Transform The Knickerbocker Hotel St. Cloud Rooftop Into Thoughtful Gallery Experience

Literature and visual art have always been in dialogue, with images and words inspiring each other across centuries, genres, styles, geographies, and mediums. While art and literature have simultaneously represented similar movements throughout…

Frick Masterpiece Inspires Anthology Of Short Stories Written By NYU Graduate Students, Amplifying Art History

1987 was a roller coaster year. The first The Simpsons cartoon short aired on The Tracey Ullman Show. West German citizen Mathias Rust,landed a small Cessna airplane in Red Square. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a staggering 22.6 percent in…

Enjoy A Creative Ride With Basquiat, Haring, Scharf, Hockney, Dalí, Other Masters Via Phaidon’s Recreation Of ‘Luna Luna’ Art Amusement Park

Pavel Haas was deported to Auschwitz in mid-October 1944 and immediately killed, but his music survives to remind us of horrors of recent history. Haas studied with preeminent Czech composer Leoš Janáček, and became renowned in his own right,…

Artist Susan Philipsz Commands Our Attention With ‘Separated Strings’, Conveying Truth Of The Holocaust

Imagine yourself sailing on a traditional junk through the shallow waters of Vietnam’s world-renowned Hạ Long Bay, flanked by towering lotus leafs. The magnificent limestone mountains cast a vivid blue reflection on the emerald waters that formed a…

How Scent Guides Our Visual Appreciation, A Journey With Diptyque At Metrograph

Eyeballs popping out of their sockets, one stick figure with fists like boxing gloves grins manically as she clocks another stick figure in the face, the victim’s squiggly mouth foreshadowing the woozy face emoji. In the same white screen to the…

‘Seeing Loud: Basquiat And Music’ Amplifies The Neo-Expressionist Master’s Undeniable Bond With Sound And Vision

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer. French artist André-Pierre Arnal, an influential…

French Artist André-Pierre Arnal Subverts Formal Elements Of Painting, Gives Viewers ‘Glimmer Of Light’

Her right shoulder juts forward to expose a semi-profile of her face as her gaze shifts left to meet ours. Her pink brocade dress, frilly neck ruff, and elaborate and prominent jewelry and headdress hint at her social status. She appears relaxed yet…

Frick Acquires Its First Female Renaissance Portrait Gifted From Trust Of Philanthropist Assadour O. Tavitian

The colors, shapes, and composition of Structuring a Landscape represent and amplify the glassy luster of the volcanic obsidian, the abrasiveness of volcanic rock, and the rosettes of succulent or leathery agave leaves. Working as part of the Mexican…

Renowned Mexican Artists Design Collector Boxes To Celebrate Jose Cuervo’s Award-Winning Reserva De La Familia Extra Añejo

Claude Monet moved his family from Argenteuil, a northwestern suburb of Paris, to Vétheuil, a commune on the Seine some 60 kilometers northwest of the city, in 1878. His wife died a year later, but Monet's creative process continued to flourish in…

Claude Monet And Olafur Eliasson In Conversation At The Frick Informs Our Perception Of Color, Light, Environments

Art appreciation helps us to better understand how others feel, allowing us to relate to people from different backgrounds and broadening our world view. Despite a lack of empirical research supporting the theory that the visual arts promote empathy,…

Art Museum Visitors Must Experience Positive And Negative Emotions To Work Toward Empathy: Study

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades, a group of European scholars set out to explore the question “Is it Art?” as it pertains to ambiguity and aesthetics. The Dada trailblazer challenged long-standing assumptions about what art should be, and how…

‘Is It Art?’ Scholars Test Viewers’ Perception Of Art Vs. Scientific Data

The world’s leading dealer of artwork by Antoine Blanchard, best known for his glimmering Parisian street scenes, has completed an updated catalogue raisonné for the mysterious French painter. Rehs Galleries of New York, regarded among the world’s…

New York Gallery Uncovers Auction Fakes, Prompting Catalogue Raisonné For French Painter Antoine Blanchard

Feeling that you understand an artist’s intention, even if your perception is inaccurate, and feeling more emotion, influences how viewers positively rate the art, a recent study has found. A group of 10 European scholars tested the ability of…

Art And Emotion: How Viewers Respond To What Artists ‘Intend’ And How It Impacts Aesthetic Appreciation

A vibrant array of fauna and flora dance around a gnarled tree trunk as we navigate a paradisiacal scene that borrows from the Bible and art historical references such as Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece Garden of Earthly Delights. Religious and…

‘Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature’ Awakens The Artist’s Legacy Beyond Bridges

Writing and features about visual, performing and literary arts

At the beginning of March, before the coronavirus came to our city, I wrote an article for Springs about the convenience of getting groceries delivered to your doorstep. The original focus was the benefit for people who may have health or mobility…

Where to Find Home Grocery Delivery in Colorado Springs Now

A preview of performances as the Colorado Springs Philharmonic celebrates Beethoven, the new ’20s and its Becoming Heroes Festival.
This year marks a big birthday for Beethoven and a heroic lineup for the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. To celebrate…

The Philharmonic Gets Heroic

Looking for plays, musicals and live theater productions in Colorado Springs? You’ll find world premieres to favorite classics on these local stages.
Counterweight Theater Lab
Audiences feel right in the middle of the story at The Next Us coworking…

Where to Find Live Theater in Colorado Springs

In 1977 Kenner got a wee bit delayed in making the first-ever Star Wars action figures so they created a brilliant plan to sell the toys at Christmas that year, even though the toys wouldn’t be ready until the following February. They sold an empty…

Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through Fifty Historic Treasures is now available for pre-sale!

A century ago, Spencer and Julie Penrose established the Broadmoor Art Academy (BAA), which would become a home for painters, musicians, performing artists and dancers. In 1919 the couple donated their former residence on Dale Street, on the site of…

Fine Arts Center Celebrates 100 Years

I remember the exact auditorium where I saw certain films at Kimball’s Peak Three Theater. Far from the Madding Crowd screened in upstairs Auditorium Three. The Young Victoria and Midnight in Paris played in big Auditorium One. It just seems…

The Peak of Local Cinema

The midafternoon slump hit hard on my first day back in the office after a recent trip to England. “I really want some tea and a scone right now. Why don’t Americans take tea breaks like the British?” I lamented. What’s an Anglophile to do in America…

Tea Time in Colorado Springs

I stand in front of the Art-o-mat at Ivywild School, surveying the tiny artwork for sale from this vending machine for only $5 each. Do I want earrings, a comic, a mysteriously named “treasure necklace,” or something else from among the 22 options? I…

Art-O-Mat Dispenses Creativity

With a documentary premier and a statue celebration coming soon, we talk with PBS producer Kate Perdoni about what we can learn about race relations and the arts from a historic Colorado Springs changemaker.
It’s been 100 years since Fannie Mae…

Honoring Fannie Mae Duncan

October in Colorado Springs means it’s Arts Month, when our local artists and musicians shine alongside the beauty of the changing leaves. As part of the monthlong celebration, the second-annual ArtPOP series will introduce you to new faces and…

ArtPop Brings Free, Unique Performances All Over Town

The 3- to 5-year-old students in Mini Makers Class are playing in the dirt at the Twine Lab. They dig their hands into plastic tubs on the ground, gleefully making mud pies. Their teachers help them pour water over artificial flowers and plastic bugs…

Project Imagination at the Twine Lab

“As long as I can remember, I was interested in medicine and kids,” says Lisa Shaw. Unsure if she wanted to be a doctor or nurse, she settled on pediatric nursing because of the ongoing relationships she could develop with her patients. She spent…

Lisa Flaherty Shaw, R.N.: Giving Generously

If the land around the Pikes Peak Region could talk, what do you think it would say? Perhaps it would tell you about the eons it has borne witness to, or about the time humans first settled here. Maybe it would prefer to talk about the present,…

Forever Yours, The Land

Dr. House—no, not the one on TV—grins when he talks about the action sports he loves. That’s not an uncommon statement in Colorado perhaps, but there is a twist. “The adrenaline need is why I ended up in a wheelchair in the first place. It doesn’t…

Dr. House: Rolling Past Limitations

Bike sharing arrives in the Springs this summer, meaning you’ll be able to hop on a high-tech, purple PikeRide bicycle for short rides around downtown. “It is a transit solution first and foremost, but it is also a great amenity for residents and…

How to PikeRide

On June 23, adrenaline junkies can turn their endorphin rush into building blocks of the new Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs by racing up and down the 2,700 stairs of the Air Force Academy’s Falcon Stadium. But for 12-year-old Lauren…

Climb for Courage: Climbing for the Kids

There are gentle warriors fighting for the babies in the UCHealth Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Memorial Hospital Central. A team of 33 volunteer cuddlers help babies get healthy by holding them in their loving arms. “What the babies need is…

The Baby Whisperers

Seven local artists and arts organizations have a chance to win big this March. The Peak Arts Prize is a new grant contest that supports the arts in three categories: individual artists, and small and large organizations. From January through…

Peak Arts Prize Debuts

Looking for an opportunity to explore the local art scene? First Friday is the perfect start to each month: a night of art shows, performances and social gatherings. “The First Friday is one of those nationally- recognized days of art-going,” says…

An Insider’s Guide to First Fridays

I hear a loud pop as I crash, and my skis pin my legs underneath me in the snow. My left knee definitely should not be twisted in that direction. After my friends dig me out of the snow, I hobble 2 miles back to our van at the trailhead. The next…

Strong Knees for Colorado Adventures

New Wimbledon Theatre – 10 May 2019
Reviewed by Catherine Françoise
4****
There was a real buzz about the Gala Night performance of In The Willows at the New Wimbledon Theatre in aid of the National Children’s Deaf Society! In The Willows has been…

In The Willows Review

Having seen this vibrant, colourful new British musical at it’s opening at Watford Palace Theatre it was great to see it again 7 weeks later at Hornchurch looking and sounding so wonderful. The score from Summet Chopra is simply tremendous – such an…

Laila the Musical at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch – Review

With Beautiful The Carole King Musical, another jukebox musical has landed in the West End after its great triumph on Broadway and what a landing it seems to have had. Judging by audience reactions it’s destined for a long stay here as well and…

Review of Beautiful The Carole King Musical London

In 2003 Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel The Kite Runner took the literary world by storm, clocking up more than 100 weeks on the New York bestsellers’ list. Four years later Matthew Spangler adapted the novel for the stage after meeting Hosseini in San…

Review of The Kite Runner at The Playhouse Theatre

When you’re looking forward to seeing Royal Ballet principal ballerina Natalia Osipova partnered on stage with ballet’s ‘bad boy’ Sergei Polunin, now also her real-life partner, the disappointment when expectations are dashed is acute. Both feted for…

Natalia Osipova: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – Russell Maliphant – Arthur Pita

New Victoria Theatre, Woking – until Saturday 4 May 2019
Reviewed by Catherine Francoise
5*****
In 2014 Matthew Bourne announced that his emotionally charged, audacious Swan Lake had become the longest running ballet in the West End and on Broadway.…

MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE REVIEW

New Wimbledon Theatre – until 27 October 2018
Reviewed by Catherine Françoise
5*****
I went to The Band with a fair degree of trepidation. Another juke box musical plus a tribute band discovered via a reality TV show could be a recipe for disaster…

The Band Review

Having taken Australia by storm, Bernadette Robinson’s story of five everyday women encountering five iconic megastars has its London premiere at Wilton’s Music Hall. In a truly virtuosic performance, Robinson embodies Judy Garland, Patsy Cline,…

Songs for Nobodies is ‘truly outstanding’ at Wilton’s | Review

It is 50 years since the 1967 Abortion Act 1967 was passed in the UK. The act didn’t decriminalise abortion but enabled women to have one if two doctors certified that she met certain criteria. Abortions in Britain which do not meet these criteria…

Review of Keith Hindell’s Dead or Alive? at Theatro Technis

SID at Above The Arts, grabs you by the throat and holds you mesmerised for 50 minutes, with a tremendous ‘tour de force’ solo performance by Dario Coates. Knowing little about punk I was a tad trepidatious beforehand, yet within 30 seconds the sheer…

5-star SID at Above The Arts Theatre

Fully deserving this week’s newly announced Off West End Awards nominations (Best New Play – Mark Jagasia, Best Actress – Clare Higgins, Best Actor – Greg Hicks) it is absolutely worth going off the beaten track to the Arcola Theatre in Hackney for…

Review of Clarion at Arcola Theatre

Trafalgar Studios London – until 18 November 2017. Reviewed by Catherine Françoise
4 ****
APOLOGIA is Alexia Kave Campbell’s third play and second incarnation here in London after first being seen in 2009. It also marks the return of American actress…

Apologia Review

As a huge admirer of the music of Howard Goodall and having seen several previous productions I was very much looking forward to another opportunity to see this evocative musical adaptation of Melvyn Bragg’s 1969 powerful first novel in the trilogy…

Review of The Hired Man at the Union Theatre

Having never heard of Kentaro Korbayashi or Mr Potsunen previously I had no idea what to expect at the Print Room at the Coronet and am happy to report I was completely blown away by an utterly brilliant performance artist. Kentaro is only playing 4…

Kentaro Kobayashi’s Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life

‘Statistics don’t tell the story of immigrants: People do’
After a sell-out performance as part of Alchemy 2014, Immigrant Diaries 2015 returned to the Purcell Room Southbank Centre as part of the Changing Britain festival. Devised and hosted by…

IMMIGRANT DIARIES 2015 Purcell Room Southbank Centre London

As part of their 45th anniversary year The Kings Head brings us The Flannelettes, a new (revised) play by Richard Cameron, Award Winning Writer of The Glee Club and Great Balls of Fire, directed by Mike Bradwell, the founder of Hull Truck Theatre…

The Flannelettes is thought-provoking and entertaining

A tremendous performance from Philip Bretherton as Tony Benn in Tony’s Last Tape, a new one-man play from Nottingham playwright Andy Barrett. Also a real coup for Bridge House Theatre producer Rob Harris to bag such a prestigious transfer from…

Review of Tony’s Last Tape at Bridge House Theatre

March 24th marked an Argentine national holiday as a Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice commemorating the tens of thousands disappeared during ‘Dirty War’ of the Military Junta 1977-83 and the still immensely painful legacy of the Mothers of…

Review of These Trees Are Made of Blood at Southwark Playhouse

It’s 17 years since the phenomenal vocals of the Callaway sisters were heard together in London and Sarah Ingram (actress/singer, recent Mrs Lovett personified, and now producer) has brought them back to London. Let’s hope they don’t keep us waiting…