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THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

- 10 April 2025

Martin McDonagh’s rural drama is a texturally rich story steeped in Irish theatrical tradition and...

- 8 April 2025

If like me you can remember heading to the local cinema, back then no doubt...

- 3 April 2025

Sondheim’s early career as a lyricist, West Side Story and Gypsy, then a leap to...

- 2 April 2025

Calamity Jane started life, not on stage but in a 1953 Doris Day movie, a...

- 1 April 2025

Jenny Eclair, alternative comedy queen, successful novelist, radio game show regular and hugely successful podcaster...

- 26 March 2025

The arrival of the musical Kinky Boots seems way overdue, even more so than perhaps...

- 22 March 2025

Puccini’s masterpiece is the opera that I have seen more times than any other, and...

- 21 March 2025

Being thrown somewhat out of my comfort zone or range of experience can be unnerving....

- 17 March 2025

Steve Barrey’s first foray into writing, from a background of high finance, entrepreneurship, music and...

- 14 March 2025

In reality Dam van Huynh in collaboration with Tommaso Petrolo create a disquieting work of...

- 12 March 2025

For some reason, I know not why, I have never read this classic CS Lewis,...

- 5 March 2025

Novelist Peter James is a prolific global success. His Roy Grace novels hit the best...