A full house at the Crucible rose to give an enthusiastic response to Sheffield Theatres’ new production of Miss Saigon. The musical is an adaptation of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly by the French creative team Claude-Michel Schonberg (composer) and Alain Boubil (writer interpreter) who transferred the action to Saigon and Bangkok before and after the Vietnamese… Continue reading Miss Saigon
Month: June 2023
Curve Christmas show should be a hoot
Leicester’s Curve is to hold open auditions for actor-musicians to take part in its Christmas 2023 Studio show The Owl Who Came for Christmas. Curve’s chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said, “we always look forward to our Made at Curve family Christmas productions and we’re thrilled to be creating the first stage… Continue reading Curve Christmas show should be a hoot
Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend is an entertaining portrait of William Charles Macready, a barrister in the making unwillingly catapulted into the life of an actor-manager in Georgian England. Pulled out of school at age 16 when his father—a manifestly unsuccessful provincial theatre manager—was imprisoned for bankruptcy, the young Macready took over the shambolic company of actors… Continue reading Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Kirklees’ year and more of music
Kirklees Concert Season 2023-24 is a scaled-up programme of orchestral, organ and festive performances in Huddersfield and Dewsbury town halls for Kirklees Year of Music 2023, and chamber concerts extending into next summer. International artists making debuts with the Orchestra of Opera North include Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid in Gulda’s wild Cello Concerto, Nigerian-American soprano… Continue reading Kirklees’ year and more of music
Under the Kundè Tree
Britain and France were always competing to conquer the world. It meant Britain invading some ninety percent of the globe while France grabbed what bits it could including invading England on a number of occasions. But the pair agreed on a division of Cameroon, with France taking the North and Britain taking the South. Unfortunately… Continue reading Under the Kundè Tree
Christmas creatives chosen for Nottingham Playhouse show
The three creatives chosen for Nottingham Playhouse’s Christmas show for younger children, Hansel and Gretel, are all from the East Midlands and fought off competition from more than 100 submissions in an open call-out. Beth Shouler, a Duffield Fellow 2022 on the Clore Leadership Programme, will direct. She said, “I’m chuffed to bits to be directing… Continue reading Christmas creatives chosen for Nottingham Playhouse show
Götterdämmerung
Longborough proves yet again that you don’t need a mega-budget to stage a Wagner opera successfully, not even when the composer calls in its climactic moment for the heroine to leap onto her horse, the surrounding conflagration to engulf a palace, the Rhine to overflow with Rhinemaidens swimming past and mortals to look down as… Continue reading Götterdämmerung
A decade of Calm Down, Dear
Multi award-winning theatremaker RashDash is curating the tenth feminist festival, Calm Down, Dear, at Camden People’s Theatre. The festival runs from 31 May to 17 June and includes Sluts with Consoles and work-in-progress Stable, which look at women in the gaming industry and horse dealing respectively, and a character comedy on fat bodies from Posey Mehta, Babycakes. Other shows consider modern sex work… Continue reading A decade of Calm Down, Dear
I Puritani
Vincenzo Bellini said he wanted to make his audiences weep, faint and die. His great romantic opera, which premièred in Paris in 1835, is set during the time of the English Civil War. Just as Puritan Elvira is about to be married to Royalist Arturo, he deserts her for another woman, who was last seen… Continue reading I Puritani
Without Walls open for submissions
Without Walls, a consortium of 30+ festivals and arts organisations, is inviting submissions of new outdoor work from artists and companies, for touring next year. Projects are particularly welcomed from or led by global majority artists, Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and LGBTIQA+ artists. The artistic directorate responsible for artistic programming will assess ideas from… Continue reading Without Walls open for submissions