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‘For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy’ runs until November 6 at the New Diorama Theatre

High school fencing as a setting for a play: I’ll be honest, I was sceptical. I was wrong. Athena is exhilarating theatre at its very best.

There’s no question the Edmonton International Fringe Festival is demanding the entertainment spotlight in Edmonton this week, but there’s a little more…

I and the Village at The Bread and Roses Theatre | Review May 28, 2021 Last updated: May 28, 2021 I and the Village is set in the pre-pandemic world, exploring the long wait people have in what Ireland calls ‘direct provision’, the system used to house asylum seekers in the country. The production eschews politics of the parliamentary kind, and tries to put both sides of the story across – Hannah (Laide Sonola) expresses frustrations with the apparent improvements to direct provision in 2018, while Carl (Mark Rush) insists the revisions are an improvement on what went on before. I and...

Olivia Colman: Emerging talent in performing arts needs encouragement Jenna Al-Ansari won the Screenshot competition (Ali Wright). Olivia Colman has said emerging talent in the performing arts needs to be given “encouragement” in order to stop them leaving the industry amid uncertainty caused by the pandemic. The Oscar winning actress said the pandemic has “certainly delayed a lot of people’s start” in breaking into the arts. Colman was speaking as part of a panel judging the Screenshot competition to seek out the next generation of comedy writers and performers for TV, Rosie Jones,...