Arts·Theatre Home Arches opens in Manchester providing artists with a world-class development hub by Neil Baker 24th January 2025
LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre The captivating and clever musical Copla: A Spanish Cabaret comes to The Other Palace by Neil Baker 8th January 2025
Music and Dance·Theatre The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) unveils the 2025 programme, and a new Patron, Kerry Ellis by Neil Baker 14th November 2024
Film and Television·Music and Dance·Theatre Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic is to be released in cinemas for the first time by Neil Baker 26th June 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Clodagh (short film) Tribeca Review – a beautiful and poignant sixteen-minute drama by Neil Baker 31st May 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre River Stage at the National Theatre announces programming for the summer 2024 festival by Neil Baker 29th May 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance·Theatre Message in a Bottle (review) – Sadler’s Wells’ awe-inspiring and urgent production comes to UK cinemas by Neil Baker 26th May 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Studio One Forever (Outfest) review – a love letter to a temple of gay freedom and dance by Neil Baker 19th July 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance Ailey (review) – a delicate, vibrant, yet incomplete portrait of a dancing genius by Neil Baker 31st December 2021
Film and Television·Music and Dance·Rewind Billy Elliot (2000) – class consciousness, masculinity and community oppression by Neil Baker 19th March 2020
1 Studiocanal has announced the release of a new 4K restoration of Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin (1992), starring Robert Downey Jr
2 TV Choice: The cloaks have been ironed, the fingerless gloves unpacked, and the turret dusted for The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One
3 The National Children’s Choir of Great Britain (NCCGB) is now searching for the next generation of singing talent
4 The Intimacy Coordinator (review): Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s short film is bold in its perspective and bursting with potential
5 The finalists have been announced for the inaugural Great British Theatres Awards, taking place in London this November
6 Queer Theatre is auctioning a Star Trek: Picard script belonging to Marina Sirtis, with all proceeds supporting LGBTQIA+ theatre-makers
7 A Tale of Two Cities (review): After 90 years, Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud’s adaptation finally comes to life on stage
8 TV Choice: Break Clause – Moving on is hard, moving out is even harder in Jess Bray’s new Channel 4 comedy/drama
9 Sense and Sensibility (review) – Oakley and Reid’s adaptation flourishes with vivid visuals and ebullient performances
10 Premature (review): Kevin Walls’ debut feature is rough around the edges, but its sincerity and thematic observations are easy to admire
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