BATTLES | LIVE REVIEW
Battles perform at Cardiff University's Students Union.
Reviews
SEAN TYRONE | THEATRE REVIEW
A nightmare from which you don’t want to wake.
JAMES BLAKE | LIVE REVIEW
James Blake, the "Sound Of 2011" delivers an outstanding live performance at The Globe, Cardiff.
THE SANGER | THEATRE REVIEW
A no-holds-barred discussion of the British presence in Afghanistan
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN | FESTIVAL REVIEW
Gareth Ludkin reviews the fantastic philosophy and music festival, How The Light Gets In.
WALES AT THE VENICE BIENNALE | ART REVIEW
Joanna Davies provides a personal refelction on the Welsh offering at this year's Venice Biennale
PAINT | THEATRE REVIEW
This is a play about opposites: creativity versus practicality, dreams versus reality and, to a certain extent, Wales versus England.
TURANDOT | OPERA REVIEW
After 17 years, this production still pulses with life... And it is great to hear the much-travelled Nessun dorma again in its proper operatic context (where the words make sense!). Sung with great authority by Gwyn Hughes Jones, it’s worth the price of admission alone.
FOLK THE OWL | LIVE REVIEW
22 May 2011, The Gate, Cardiff **** Featuring Joe Coleman, The Gentle Good, Meilir and David Thomas Broughton. I don’t know where the folk the audience were, but at least the glorious folk was …
COSI FAN TUTTE | OPERA REVIEW
This new Welsh National Opera production relocates Mozart’s Così fan tutte to south Wales in the 1960s. Staff Director Benjamin Davis and Designer Max Jones visited Penarth and Barry Island as research.
FLOWERS FROM TUNISIA | STAGE REVIEW
For those who have experienced the effects of dementia or for those who have little or no knowledge of the condition, Flowers From Tunisia is a wonderful and touching story full of laughter and tears
There are moments during Russell Kane’s set when he threatens to blow a brain receptor and have a full tonic clonic seizure, such is the breakneck speed at which his material is delivered...
LIVE REVIEW: FUCKED UP
If you’ve seen Fucked Up before, most of this will probably sound familiar to you – although if you’ve not seen them in this venue, you might not have been treated to such a display of furniture exploration
EMPTY POCKET’S TEA PARTY | THEATRE REVIEW
In an evening of tea-related revelry, Empty Pocket Theatre launched an exciting new theatrical brew well worth looking out for in the coming months.
THE WIZARD OF OZ | STAGE REVIEW
Mia Holt reviews Tonypandy’s Sophie Evans in her West End performance of The Wizard Of Oz
SERIOUS MONEY | THEATRE REVIEW
It's time to take stock as Cardiff-based company Waking Exploits dish up their first production.
THE PASSION | THEATRE REVIEW
Michael Sheen became a Messiah of his home town over the Easter weekend with his leading role in a 72-hour epic retelling of The Passion
LIGHT ARRESTED BETWEEN THE CURTAIN AND THE GLASS | THEATRE REVIEW
If quality scriptwriting was the aim, then theatre has never been more accomplished
DESIRE LINES | THEATRE REVIEW
Latest production from Sherman Cymru leaves much to be desired
COLD CAVE | LIVE REVIEW
Over the decades, lots of great and fascinating music has been made by artists who sincerely wanted to strike it big with their particular artistic vision...
TRANSFORMATION AND REVELATION | ART REVIEW
Catch the last ten days of the excellent Transformation And Revelations exhibition at the RWCMD
ELBOW | LIVE REVIEW
Elbow prove that they know how to deliver an arena performance while still managing to engage the crowd in a personal and heartfelt show.