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Search for next BBC Young Musician begins
A year-long search for the next BBC Young Musician starts today. One of the world’s leading competitions of its type, BBC Young Musician has an enviable record of finding new talent. Many previous winners have gone on to forge major international solo and orchestral careers including oboist Nicholas Daniel (1980), clarinettist Emma Johnson (1984), horn [...]
Los VIVANCOS Live in London
Tickets go on sale today for what is set to be the summer’s most talked-about theatrical spectacular, as Los VIVANCOS – seven Spanish siblings – make their London stage debut on Tuesday 9 July at the London Coliseum. Los VIVANCOS are fast becoming the world’s hottest dance property. Having created aerobic routines as young boys, the [...]
Off With Her Head
25 years after its Scottish premiere, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off – by Scotland’s National Poet Liz Lochhead – gets its first full London season in Islington this summer. The play, exploring the rivalry and mutual fascination between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, is a murky tale of political [...]
What a WAG!
In what promises to be one of the most extraordinary and outrageous theatrical events of the year, WAG! The Musical, from Peter Frosdick Productions and Paul Nicholas, opens in the West End in July. WAG! follows a day in the life of best friends Jenny and Sharron, working-class colleagues on the cosmetics counter of a [...]
Talawa 2013/14 Season Announced
Talawa, Britain’s foremost Black-led theatre company has announced its 2013/14 season today. Curated by Artistic Director Michael Buffong, Talawa Firsts is a series of staged readings, discussions and workshops which showcase the best in new Black British writing. Now in its second year, the series returns to the Talawa Studio in Old Street, London, between [...]
The Governess Rediscovered
Impressario Bill Kenwright’s major new production of The Governess opens at the Theatre Royal, Windsor later this month. Written by British dramatist Patrick Hamilton, this forgotten classic was unearthed by theatre critic-turned-playwright Nicholas de Jongh at the British Library. Kenwright’s production stars Jenny Seagrove (Judge John Deed, The Country Girl), Peter Bowles (To The Manor [...]
Marin Alsop to Conduct Last Night of The Proms
The announcement from the BBC that, for the first time, the Last Night of the Proms will have a female conductor has been unanimously welcomed. While ‘extraordinarily proud’ to be asked to lead this quintessentially British occasion, Marin Alsop has also expressed sadness that ‘it’s 2013 and there can still be firsts for women’. Alsop’s [...]
Sound the Trumpets
Alison Balsom and Tine Thing Helseth, whose virtuosity and remarkable musicianship have done much to promote the versatility of the trumpet as a solo instrument, take centre-stage at the Proms this year. Alison Balsom has become one of the world’s foremost trumpet virtuosos, and one of EMI’s best-selling classical artists over the past decade. Balsom, [...]
Sarah Neufeld
In 2011, Canadian violinist Sarah Neufeld was approached by filmmaker John Last to compose a score for a short film curated by Vogue Italia. The title of the film, Scalpel/Stradivarius, finds its inspiration from a quote by fashion photographer Irving Penn: ‘I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it [...]
London Wall
Tricia Thorns has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre industry over the last four decades. Working primarily as an actress, Thorns made her professional departure into directing in 2003 when she, Graham Cowley and Ian Talbot formed the theatre company Two’s Company. We sat down with her to discuss Two’s Company’s unique [...]
