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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
Creating a buzz around events and what’s on in Wales
Genuinely creepy, then genuinely disturbing, The Maid is a Thai horror with a Hitchcockian tone that ultimately takes no prisoners.
Swansea club promoters Solo having announced this event in March and sold it out in April, it seems a thousand or so people are willing to pay up to £35 to see Russian techno maven Nina Kraviz.
Annual new music jamboree returns to the fray and compels hundreds of (mostly, probably) young people to bounce back and forth between a series of tightly-situated locations, shout a bit, climb on each other’s shoulders and generally get up close and personal.
A tale of a rebellious Polish girl forced to deal with some serious adult issues, I Never Cry is gruelling, darkly humorous and moving, with a brilliant central performance from its young star, Zofia Stafiej.
Rising star of the British folk scene Kitty Macfarlane, a songwriter and guitarist from Somerset, writes music rich with visual imagery and an eco-eye. She appears at Cardiff St David's Hall on Tue 12 Oct.
Experimental indie from Denmark's Efterklang, Arabic avant-garde from Montreal's Jerusalem In My Heart, gritpop from Tyneside's Sam Fender and two compilations of trad Irish folk and Italian horror scores.
St David’s Hall may be a small venue for stadium songs, but every note was as big as Queen and Roger Taylor deserved.
A well-acted relationship drama with some gruelling, emotional scenes, My Little Sister is an engrossing tale of resilience, failed dreams and family bonds.
Carl Marsh arrived with high expectations for this gig, as a fan of the Clinton Baptiste podcasts, but reports that he hasn't laughed so much in years...
The Ultimate Kiss is the first full-scale UKexhibition for remarkable Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong, representing each segment of her six-decade career.
With its sister event in Aberystwyth having fallen victim to the pandemic last year, it’s a relief to see the return of the Northern Eye Photography Festival to Colwyn Bay – and with a stellar lineup of speakers.
Company Of Sirens present Twelve Cabins Twelve Vacancies and Souvenirs Of A Killing, two Hitchcock-influenced plays by Chris Durnall.
Infinite is a sorry, overly familiar mess where a miscast Mark Wahlberg plays a schizophrenic who somehow knows how to make samurai swords.
As Mid Wales Opera return to touring with a bang - Puccini's Il tabarro - Hannah Collins got a sneak peek at the new production in an unusual location.
Reviews of newly published titles by Ruth Ozeki, JR Moores, Annie Ernaux, Kate Bowler and Montserrat Roig (that one's newly translated from Catalan to English)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that The Boy With Two Hearts would be a difficult watch – but this is a play about hope, with an enormous heart.
Chloë Edwards is ready as anything for the Welsh debut – delayed by nearly a year, natch – of this bad-taste masterpiece and worldwide theatre hit from the boys behind South Park.
Good Life have announced their ‘Malice Motel’ tour, bringing a series of themed, immersive events to venues across the UK and arriving in Cardiff with headliners Folamour and Elkka.
The Guilty is a fairly taut one-man show for Jake Gyllenhaal, a cop receiving 911 calls as Los Angeles burns.
You might hunt high and low for British folk acts with any sort of profile who make similar music to The Rheingans Sisters, who play four Welsh dates on their October UK tour.
Gregory Parsons, primary curator at Ruthin Craft Centre in Denbighshire, has with Rhythm, Renewal & Reinvention brought together work by around three dozen contemporary basket makers.
If you can embrace the incomprehensibility and just surrender yourself to them, you soon find that Squid are trustworthy tour guides guaranteed to take you to interesting, out-of-the-way places.
A Halloween anthology of dubious quality that fails to hang together: obviously filmed on a shoestring and with plenty of ambition, but providing neither trick nor treat.
For its 15th festival Iris is back on the big screen, bringing audiences the best in LGBT+ storytelling from around the world at Premiere Cinema and Chapter Arts. For those unable to join us here in Cardiff, you can still enjoy our programme of short films and feature films online.
