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Glass stays active with Sadler’s Wells

March 25, 2020

AMID the global effort to stay indoors to stop the spread of Covid-19, Sadler’s Wells, a world renowned performing arts organisation based in London, has taken the initiative to present new dance content fo...

Glass speaks to American actor Kaitlyn Black

Ssam Kim

October 16, 2019

Culture, Feature

AFTER living in LA for 12 years, Kaitlyn Black made her New York stage debut this year. Glass discusses her transition from television to theatre and her latest success in writing her viral comedy sk...

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Kinky Boots is the Musical for Generation Drag Race

Thomas Marrington

April 13, 2018

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

IT WAS a particularly interesting experience, sitting in the Adelphi theatre recently, as I looked around at my fellow theatre-goers. For a show that stars not one, not two, but six professional drag queens, pl...

At Home at the Zoo - Homelife & The Zoo Story

Glass is thrilled by the Edward Albee revival at Signature Theatre, New York

Derby Jones

April 5, 2018

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

THE great American playwright Edward Albee came to fame at the age of 32 with his first play, The Zoo Story. Opening off-Broadway in 1960, the one-act, two-actor play made Albee something of a household name ov...

FM Centre for Contemporary Art present The Szechwan Tale: China, Theatre and History

Lily Rimmer

February 21, 2018

Art, Culture, News

A NEW large-scale exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, is coming to the FM Centre for Contemporary Art in conjunction with Milan Art Week. Named The Szechwan Tale: China, Theatre and History, the exhibition ta...

Glass speaks to British actor Melanie Liburd

Karolina Zielinska

August 3, 2017

Culture, Feature, Film

KNOWN for her roles in Dark Matter and Games of Thrones, Melanie Liburd is a up-and-coming, highly talented British actor. Born in Hertfordshire, UK, Liburd graduated in fashion design before studying acting at...

Glass reviews Saint Joan at the Donmar Warehouse

Heather Doughty

January 10, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

OLIVIER award-winning director Josie Rourke certainly has a job on her hands bringing George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 tragedy, Saint Joan into not only the contemporary theatre space but also the current cultural an...

Glass reviews Richard III at the Almeida Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

June 27, 2016

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

IN a part-traditional, part-contemporary gritty production, director Rupert Goold opens his Richard III in a Leicester car park, of all places, during the excavation of Richard’s supposed remains. This dramatic...

Suqqu Sponsors this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards

Thomas Marrington

January 21, 2016

Beauty, Cinema, News, Skincare

Some of the silver screen’s most prolific and respected stars gathered at the May Fair Hotel on Sunday to celebrate the 36th Annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. The event, sponsored by Japanese make-up b...

Lost in deep space

Arjun Sajip

April 20, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

It’s never quite clear what Ren does to her friend Jordan, but it’s something for which she is both desperate and reluctant to apologise, and so she decides to stow away on the space vessel Jordan is captaini...

Borges and I – Glass reviews theatre company Idle Motion’s latest production

Arjun Sajip

December 13, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

’’Bookworms will not want to miss Paul Slater’ s pensive, highly physical production Few writers’ stories take root in the mind with the tenacity of the work of Jorge Luis Borges. An Argentine recognised in hi...

The body politic

Stephanie Clair

June 10, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

This month, two plays have opened in London’s West-End to critical acclaim. One writer, Mike Poulton, has brilliantly transformed the books Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel’s B...

In the beginning was the end

Erika Soliven

February 21, 2013

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

I was told to open up drawers and let my hands wander. I raised an eyebrow at what this could mean for dreamthinkspeak’s latest production In The Beginning Was The End. Drawing from Leonardo Da Vinci, Th...

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