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La Rondine (Victorian Opera) – opera review

Can one truly escape one’s past? Can true love win out? These are questions posed in Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine…

Homosapien (Nightshift) – music review

Formed in Glasgow, Nightshift has been active for five years. The collective has experienced line-up changes and released two albums…

SIX (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

SIX sizzles and girl power rules. It is a high-octane musical in every sense of those words. I speak of…

The Importance of Being Earnest (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

This is a Wilde/wild night all right – oh so deliciously wacky, in fact. Bloomshed has taken the essence of…

The End and Everything Before It (Finegan Kruckemeyer) – book review

Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel The End and Everything Before It is a swirling, interconnected tale about a place…

50 Shades: The Musical Parody (Alex Theatre) – musical theatre review

When British author E.J. James released his erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011, it titillated an excited…

New music round-up (for w/e 2 August 2024)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 2 August 2024. The…

The Art of Banksy: Without Limits – art review

It is not hard to see why Banksy’s street art has captured global imagination and attention. With his satirical stencil…

Horizon (Playlab Theatre) – theatre review

With the Anywhere Festival ending for another year and the unexpected cancellation of a main-stage play, theatre lovers keen to…

The President’s Wife – movie review

According to the reliable IMDb, The President’s Wife (released elsewhere as Bernadette) marks the 142nd screen appearance of the legendary…