Monica Nicolaides has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share when it comes to chatting about working as both Choreographer and Movement Director. She’s a featured choreographer for One Dance UK and has been one of Hiive’s ‘One-to-watch’ and has received support previously from Arts Council England. As someone who has been working across... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 10th April 2019 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In this new hyper-contemporary production, Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness is ‘retold for today’ by imitating the dog. A text very much of its time, this production takes the bull by the horns and in a supremely meta set-up, offers the text in a... Continue Reading →
Leeds Town Hall is heading for Platform 9 and 3/4 this month as The Magical Music Of Harry Potter is set to swoop in and land there on Saturday 23rd February 2019. Presenting will be Sarah Day-Smith, Potter appreciator and lover of the magic of live music. I caught up with her recently to find... Continue Reading →
Released December 2018. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The much awaited return of Mary Poppins has landed. Mary Poppins Returns takes a beloved old classic and gives it some modern aesthetics and new stomping grounds. It’s not so much about carrying on from or matching up to the original, it’s about finding a way to bring great characters back... Continue Reading →
Released January 2019. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Believe the hype. The Favourite is pretty golden. Aside from stand-out performances across the board, this is a brilliant film from camera work to costumes to cinematography to fantastic script. The film looks at Queen Anne, fleetingly Queen in the early 18th century, victim of countless personal tragedies and object of... Continue Reading →
Released: January 2018. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Stephen Spielberg’s latest venture gifts us something truly special: Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, two titans of the screen, together at last. The marketing alone attests to the weight of the names, the primary poster not even featuring their faces in favour of displaying only their forms with their backs to... Continue Reading →
January 2018 (Released December 2017) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Greatest Showman is, for me, easily a new classic. A tale of overcoming obstacles even when they seem insurmountable, pushing past prejudice and finding your own inner strength, it holds a considerable amount of relatable material. Telling the story of the infamous P.T.Barnum, considered to be the founder... Continue Reading →
Sunday, 2nd April, 2017 (Released in the U.K March 2017). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bill Condon's live action adaptation of 'Beauty and the Beast' presents us with a vibrant, sweeping take on this much-loved tale. The special effects work wonders to bring to life that famous enchanted castle and its inhabitants. True to modern expectations, the effects and... Continue Reading →
Released in the UK January 2017 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One thing is for certain: we need more films like 'Hidden Figures'. With so many influential, important people and stories written out of those we think we know, it's time more of them stepped into the spot light. 'Hidden Figures' tells the story of three extraordinarily gifted women... Continue Reading →
Encore, which came out last week, is the latest addition to Barbra Streisand's studio album catalogue as well as her collection of albums spotlighting some of the greatest music created for stage and screen. It is also the latest evidence of her unrivalled position as queen of stage and screen music. As most know, 'the... Continue Reading →
Always Time For Theatre 