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Ballet Review: Sleeping Beauty at Royal Concert Hall
Thu 25 Jan 2024A traditional Fairy Tale ballet to dispel those January blues...
Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Arts Theatre
Mon 18 Dec 2023Sharon Stevens reviews Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Arts Theatre...
Theatre Review: Northern Ballet's Beauty & The Beast at Theatre Royal
Fri 06 Oct 2023The familiar fairy tale, told through music and dance, brings magic and beauty to the Theatre Royal
Film Review: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Sun 29 Jan 2023Laura Poitras' new Oscar nominated documentary looks at the life of American activist and photographer Nan Goldin...
Local Artist Richard Hyde Talks About Finding the Beauty in Mundanity
Sun 29 Jan 2023Local visual artist Richard Hyde uses abstract imagery to paint very real pictures - focusing on the positive aspects of the everyday, including the boundless beauty of nature, to take us away from the stresses and mundanity of normal life. Here, he dives into his creative process, and why he does what he does…
Theatre Review: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
Thu 26 Jan 2023A magically zany reworking of a classic
From Sleeping Beauty to Beat the Streets, Here's the Best of This Week
Mon 23 Jan 2023Shakespeare, Sleeping Beauty, Beat the Streets, there's plenty on this week...
Christmas Zoo "A night of kitsch cabaret, animalist music and beastly burlesque!'
Sat 10 Dec 2022Film Review: The Sea Beast
Wed 13 Jul 2022Netflix has got its Dreamworks on with new animated feature The Sea Beast. Starring Karl Urban and Jared Harris, as well as newcomer Zaris-Angel Hator, this is a well-worn tale of man versus beast, hate versus love, prejudice versus compassion and forgiveness...
Notts Art Collective INSTAR Dig Into the Role Flora and Fauna Have Played in Our Collective Cultural Past
Tue 17 May 2022From modern tales like The Princess and the Frog, through to ancient literature in the form of The Epic of Gilgamesh, humans have been fascinated by the wonders of mythical flora and fauna. Yet our natural world is perhaps more incredible than anything in a fairy tale…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Sat 09 Apr 2022The Harry Potter universe isn't exactly the purest right now, but is Secrets of Dumbledore a step in the right direction? Not really...
Five Years Later: The Boy and the Beast
Sat 24 Apr 2021The Boy and the Beast, animator Mamoru Hosoda’s sixth film as director, is a familiar but occasionally heartwarming coming-of-age fantasy…
Theatre Royal Is Staging a Socially-Distanced Sleeping Beauty This Christmas
Tue 17 Nov 2020To them, to you...
Book Review: The Beauty Within Shadow by Henry Normal
Fri 13 Nov 2020With a CV that boasts a contribution to British comedy that few can equal, you’d be right to expect more than your fair share of humour from The Beauty Within Shadow, the latest poetry collection from Henry Normal. But if laughs were all you were expecting, you’re in for a welcome surprise...
Notts’ Panto Legends Kenneth Alan Taylor and John Elkington on Bringing Sleeping Beauty to the Playhouse This Christmas
Thu 05 Dec 2019This year marks 35 years since Kenneth Alan Taylor first brought pantomime to the Nottingham Playhouse when he arrived as Artistic Director. For a generation, his gentle northern tones were the voice of the quintessential panto dame, a role he reprised over and over before hanging up the costume changes for writing instead. It’s also been 21 years since John Elkington first appeared in a Playhouse panto and solidified himself as the current dame of choice. Our Stage Editor – and massive panto fan – sat down with them both during rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty to find out about this year’s production…