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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
The best seat in the house for What’s On Stage, tours and events in Wales’ theatre scene…
Recent times have seen us question the many power battles fought between investigative journalism and the government. The Telegraph exposed the expenses scandal and News Of The World resorted to criminality in the ‘line of duty’. But who really holds the power?
Headlong Theatre’s take on Euripides’ Greek tragedy holds a lot of potential: transferring the action to modern day suburbia allows writer and director Mike Bartlett to explore some thought provoking themes surrounding gender and infidelity.
It seems to be a rite of passage for most women to have seen the film Dirty Dancing and, to at some point in their life, have wished that they were the character of Baby having a good old session (dancing), with Patrick Swayze’s character of Johnny.
Creating a new legend, even a new fairy tale, is not an easy feat. However, if you head down to Sherman Cymru this half term you will witness a performance doing just that.
It’s not every day that you go to a theatre production and see re-enactments of orgasms live on stage, or have tampons thrown at you in the audience. Outlandish, yes, but this show is also captivating, moving and hilarious.
The wonderful Mab Jones rounds up another month of arty goings on in November.
Originally performed two years ago, Give It A Name have revived Rude for Black History Month Wales with a run at the Rockin Chair Caribbean restaurant in Riverside, Cardiff.
Every hook, jab, side step and uppercut draws the audience into the unflinching reality of these boxer’s lives: all five are fighting for their place in the world, to be recognised for their skills and as individuals as well as to reach for the stars and away from the grey Glaswegian streets.
IF you’re still on a high from Africa Express but worrying about the encroaching autumn, have no fear, the Afrovibes festival is here! Another project that links our little country …
As we take our seats, engines start to whir as we are slowly transported to the depths of the ocean… then two actors come on stage and break the spell...
"After a side-splitting first act, I left the auditorium at the intermission grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat and I expected the second act to be in the same vein..."
Christopher Orton is coming straight home to Wales after the West End run of Monty Python’s Spamalot to see his play performed as part of Michael Kelligan’s On The Edge season.
As with the book, the movie and now the stage show, Legally Blonde holds a deeper and more meaningful moral message based on the perils of stereotyping individuals based on appearance and social status. But if, like me, you missed that bit, it’s a well crafted, deliciously light piece of escapist entertainment for all ages to enjoy.
In another of NTW’s challenging and boundary-pushing pieces, Coriolan/Us melds the intricate with the large-scale as Hangar 858 becomes the set for a bold adaptation which fuses Brecht’s unfinished Coriolan and the original Shakespeare text.
In true Hollywood make-believe style, Legally Blonde The Musical is coming to audiences across the country after three very pink and triumphant years on the West End.
In a collaborative project between Theatre Fynnon and Sherman Cymru Youth Theatre, 18 young people have been brought together over an eight-month project and nine-day residency to create a unique piece of theatre that attempts to capture the fast-paced worlds of two groups of young people who may otherwise not meet or work creatively together.
In a collaborative project between Theatre Fynnon and Sherman Cymru Youth Theatre, 18 young people have been brought together over an eight-month project and nine-day residency to create a unique piece of theatre that attempts to capture the fast-paced worlds of two groups of young people who may otherwise not meet or work creatively together.
For nine-year-old Bili, doing a bronco – standing on a swing, working it up as high as he can before kicking it up over the bar as he jumps off – is the best feeling ever.
The Edinburgh Fringe is a pivotal point in the theatrical calendar and Cardiff University’s very own Act One drama society are heading up there to perform, taking performances of Wuthering Heights, The Institute and King Lear.
Whereas previous plays have politicised, moralized and dramatized interpretations of the recent wars, this is the soldier’s story, told and performed by them, that takes centre stage.
Dirty Protest bring their intimate brand of theatre to Sherman Cymru's stage to great effect.
The month-long Blysh festival is back to take over Cardiff Bay with fun, frolics and frivolity for all the family throughout the whole of July.
The Riverfront, Newport Weds 13 June Words: Rachel Williams ★★★★☆ Standing in The Riverfront’s foyer and the scene is already being set, as accordion player Joe Corbett wanders the open spaces, …
For those lucky enough to escape the umbrella-beating conditions outside, Bessie And Me provides a potted history of the life of Bessie Smith...
