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Category Archives: Theatre
Sherman Theatre Provides Digital Platform For Young Playwrights With EIGHT
Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre has launched EIGHT, a new digital series of short plays written by youngsters from South Wales. The eight monologues are personal reflections on the experience of 2020 and the situation caused by Covid-19.
Review: Hijinx Theatre’ Metamorphosis, Green Man Festival – Field of Streams
Seren Howells takes time out to review Hijinx Theatre’s latest presentation, Metamorphosis, presented online via Green Man festivals 2020 event, Field of Streams.
Hijinx Theatre’s Metamorphosis Goes Online For Green Man Festival’s Field Of Streams
Video conferencing has become an integral part of our lockdown lives and it is no different for Cardiff theatre company Hijinx.
Pandemic Forces Cardiff’s New Theatre To Reschedule Aladdin Pantomime for 2021
It has been confirmed that Cardiff New Theatre’s annual Pantomime, a seasonal highlight for over 50,000 people each year and a regular traditional offering during the theatre’s 114 year history will not take place over the 2020/21 season.
Theatre Adhoc Launch Virtual New Writing Festival 2020
This week, Theatre Adhoc in partnership with Congress Theatre, Cwmbran launch The Virtual New Writing Festival 2020! At the beginning of lockdown, Theatre Adhoc’s My Mother Said I Never Should was the final live production to play Cwmbran’s Congress Theatre. However, rather than just close the theatre doors the staff came up with the geniusContinue reading “Theatre Adhoc Launch Virtual New Writing Festival 2020”
Picture Special: South Wales Venues Light It In Red Plea To Save Theatre Industry
Picture Special from the #lightitinred campaign.
Wales Theatres Go Red For COVID-19 Government Plea
Iconic buildings and venues across Wales will light up in red this evening (Tuesday 11th August 2020) as part of a UK-wide day of action highlighting the urgent government help the sector needs during the Covid-19 crisis.
Throwback Thursday: The Sunshine Boys, New Theatre, Cardiff (November 1976)
This week’s Throwback Thursday takes a look at Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys which played Cardiff’s New Theatre between November 9 -20 1976 and starred Ryan Davies and Bill Owen. Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys follows an attempt by a theatrical agent to re-unite his elderly uncle, a former vaudeville star, with his long-time stageContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: The Sunshine Boys, New Theatre, Cardiff (November 1976)”
Experience The Historical Racial Conflict of Cardiff 1919 Race Riots Via Digital Graphic Novel
Kyle Legall, a Welsh artist from Butetown, Cardiff, has created an illustrated, digital graphic novel which brings accounts of the Cardiff race riots to life.