Sir Matthew Bourne—the visionary behind the iconic gender-swapped Swan Lake and the hauntingly beautiful Edward Scissorhands—has returned to Cardiff, gracing the Wales Millennium Centre with his breathtaking masterpiece, The Red Shoes. This production marks a triumphant return for the Olivier Award-winning ballet, which saw its 2020 tour cruelly cut short by the pandemic. Based on […]
A breathtaking portrayal of an incredible story that will move even non horse lovers. Let us return to the days of the First World War – a conflict in which an estimated ten million people lost their lives. But it wasn’t only soldiers who fought with courage. Horses, too, faced the horrors of war with astonishing […]
Sets that are popping, music that is pure pop and an actual real-life popstar as the lead role, you must pop down to the Wales Millenium Centre to see & Juliet! What if Juliet didn’t kill herself when Romeo died? What if she just moved on? Well, Shakespere’s wife has decided the ending of Romeo […]
Anyone who is interested in musicals, dance or just theatre, needs to see this tour of Chicago. This show massively revolves around Bob Fosse choreography and is definitely one for the fans of breathy jazz numbers. It is based around the raunchy 1920’s jazz nightlife. With beautiful women making poor life decisions involving adultery and murder. With great numbers like Cell Block Tango (which I like to refer to as menopausal women taking revenge […]
A traditional tale told in a revolutionary way with strength and beautiful aggression. This is Swan Lake, but not as you may know it. Matthew Bourne ruffled feathers 30 years ago when he daringly removed the dainty female swan dancers and replaced them with a bevy of muscular male swans in white feathered bottoms paired […]
An Edinburgh Fringe smash hit has landed at Cardiff’s New Theatre for just two nights — and it’s not one to miss. I had the pleasure of joining an audience buzzing with excitement, ready to enjoy the great works of Oscar Wilde — or at least a version of them… thoroughly and gloriously butchered. This […]
Love Love love!!! My first sparkly and beaming five stars for this year at the Wales Millennium Centre for sure! This is the story of a son trying to save his fathers generationally owned shoe factory. The only way how, seems to be to find a niche and after bumping into a tough Drag Queen on the streets of London and meeting her team of angels, he soon realises that the way […]
She’s not exactly lyin’, but she’s careless with the truth! Yes that’s Calamity Jane all right. Forever spinning stories to make her the biggest hero in town (according to her). Her fearless, masculine and gun slinging ways, keep her in trouble with the locals, but they finally start believing in her when she brings to […]
Take an Oscar winning love story and add in music and lyrics co written by Eurythmics Dave Stewart. This is Ghost the musical. Sam is murdered on the street one night seemingly over just a wallet. He leaves behind his forever love Molly, but she isn’t ready to move on and after reluctantly listening to a fraudster of a psychic, she gets to […]
It’s 75 years since C.S Lewis wrote the beautiful novel that would go on to cause generations of children to frantically search through wardrobes in hope of finding a snow covered land full of magic and friendly animals. The search is over as Narnia has finally arrived at the Wales Millennium Centre and it is […]