I don’t need a calculator, abacus or two hands to add up how many comedians I’ve watched live during my lifetime… I can count to five quite comfortably without the help of those devices. Four from the list have been in Cardiff during the last decade and include a very miffed Micky Flanagan at St…
Based on the autobiography of the record label’s founder Berry Gordy, Motown: The Musical premiered on Broadway in April 2013 and has been playing at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre since February 2016. Featuring classic hits by the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye, the production tells the story of the man who broke down barriers…
The younger half of the duo that helped transform pop music in the 1960s, Phil Everly passed away in January 2014, but five years on the music he created with elder brother Don is still selling out theatres across the UK, with the Walk Right Back stage show about to enter it’s second year on…
Whoever thought of staging an arts festival on the coast… in the north of England… in the middle of February? Well whoever it was… it turns out it wasn’t a half bad idea after all! A three-day event held at the seaside in Yorkshire, Coastival has welcomed many thousands of visitors to Scarborough during the…
Few could have predicted what a live draw it would become when the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish launched five years ago. A spin-off from the BBC panel game quiz QI, featuring the show’s researchers impressing each other with surplus facts that couldn’t be crammed into the television programme, it is about to…
It’s the opening of the 2017 Greenwich And Docklands International Festival today, a fantastic programme of outdoor theatre and performing arts over three summer weekends. London’s leading festival of free outdoor performances, GDIF has been growing every year and in 2016 the festival featured more than 100 acts by dozens of national and international companies…
