When coming to a text as well-frequented as Romeo and Juliet, the pressure to put a different spin on it…
The Magic Flute, WNO, Wales Millennium Centre
February 17, 2019Mozart’s famous singspiel, with its well-known plot, charming characters, and memorable arias, can be both an easy win and a…
Into the Light, Hijinx/Teatro La Ribalta, Sherman Theatre,
February 17, 2019Hijinx have showed us in the past, more than one time, that they not only have the ability to produce…
Un Ballo In Maschera, WNO, Wales Millennium Centre
February 10, 2019WNO opens its Spring season with this interesting take on a work out of the Verdian repertoire which, while by…
BLUE, Chippy Lane Productions, Chapter
February 9, 2019If a debut is an indicator of a playwright’s potential, then Rhys Warrington, here bringing to the stage his first…
An Evening Showcasing New Age Post Punk, Clwb Ifor Bach
February 4, 2019Post Punk is a notoriously elusive label. Taken somewhat literally, it has been used to describe pretty much any music…
American Idiot, New Theatre
January 30, 2019I was born in 1990, and when Green Day’s album American Idiot came out in 2004, I was fourteen…
Clarissa!, Notional Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre
December 14, 2018Inspired by Picasso’s Guernica as well as a number of other reflections concerning the nature of art, artists, those that…
Beauty and the Beast, New Theatre
December 12, 2018Going to see a panto as an Italian, raised in a theatre culture that has truly nothing even similar to…
Fontaines D.C., Hotel Lux, The Moon
December 10, 2018As the recent period of great vitality of the rock and punk scene seems at last to be also reaching…