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Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Playhouse

This year's Playhouse panto brings us a classic tale with modern twists. You may become spellbound but, unlike the princess, you most definitely will not fall asleep... 

Sleeping Beauty

Left Stag: November - The Fading Beauty of the FA Cup

At the risk of this column being renamed Grumpy Stag, Nostalgia Stag, or In My Day Things Were Better Stag, I’m going to have to moan about something else here...

Encounters With Big Beasts

Beauty & the Beast

Ballet Review: Sleeping Beauty at Royal Concert Hall

A traditional Fairy Tale ballet to dispel those January blues...

Varna International Ballet - Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty

Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sharon Stevens reviews Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Arts Theatre...

Sleeping Beauty Pantomime

Theatre Review: Northern Ballet's Beauty & The Beast at Theatre Royal

The familiar fairy tale, told through music and dance, brings magic and beauty to the Theatre Royal

Northern Ballet - Beauty & the Beast

Dragons & Mythical Beasts

The Sleeping Beauty ROH 22-23 Season rated (12A LIVE)

Film Review: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura 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

Local 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

A magically zany reworking of a classic

From Sleeping Beauty to Beat the Streets, Here's the Best of This Week

Shakespeare, Sleeping Beauty, Beat the Streets, there's plenty on this week...

Christmas Zoo "A night of kitsch cabaret, animalist music and beastly burlesque!'

Film Review: The Sea Beast

Netflix 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

From 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

The Harry Potter universe isn't exactly the purest right now, but is Secrets of Dumbledore a step in the right direction? Not really...

Theatre Review: Beauty and the Beast

A beauty of a panto

Five Years Later: The Boy and the Beast

The 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

To them, to you...

Book Review: The Beauty Within Shadow by Henry Normal

With 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...