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1 day ago · It was the summer of 2022, and James [Yeatman] and I had just finished making two shows back-to-back with our company, Kandinsky. It was a pretty brutal return to making work after the doldrums of lockdown, with first The Winston Machine at New Diorama Theatre (NDT), then SHTF at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna, beset by the Omicron wave of Covid. We’d had two rehearsal processes blown apart by ...

London theatre is the oldest and most famous theatreland in the world, with more than 100 theatres offering shows ranging from new plays in the subsidised venues such as the National Theatre and Royal Court to mass popular hits such as The Lion King in the West End and influential experimental crucibles like the Bush and Almeida theatres.

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Help to give theartsdesk a future! Theartsdesk Friday, 31 January 2025 It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.It followed some hectic and intensive months when a disparate and eclectic team of arts and culture writers went ahead with an ambitious plan – to launch a dedicated internet site devoted to …

The Lonely Londoners, Kiln Theatre review - Windrush Generation arrive in a London full of opportunities, but not for them Gary Naylor Friday, 24 January 2025 . As something of an immigrant to the capital myself in the long hot summer of 1984, I gobbled up Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes’s novel of an outsider embracing the temptations and dangers of London.

Gigashvili, Hallé, Cox, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - beauty and style from a winning pianist Robert Beale Friday, 24 January 2025 There was excellent music making in the Hallé concert in Manchester last night, and there was self-admitted “noise”.