I’m a big fan of John Waters’ film Hairspray. I remember well going to see it on its release in…

In Opera Favourites WNO’s Orchestra and Chorus took centre stage. The audience was treated to a diverse programme of familiar…

In recent months the WNO has served up wonderful innovative productions: Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. As part…

I was looking forward to seeing Mother Goose enormously. This production had attracted a lot of press attention when it…

This musical is based on the hugely successful film of 1992, directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann (though the film…

Despite attending WNO productions in Cardiff for over twenty years this was the first time I have seen their staging…

Any performance by National Dance Company Wales is to be keenly anticipated. They have established a reputation for quirky, delightful…

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In addition to being one of the bestselling fiction writers in the world, Agatha Christie is a very successful female…

Compared to 2016’s Festival of Voice (which featured both John Grant and Rufus Wainwright) I had found little to attract…